Chapin was also president of the Cleveland Library Association in 1854 and 1858 and helped to establish the First Unitarian Church in 1854.
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Chapin was elected as a Democrat to the 52nd United States Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of David A. Boody and served from November 3, 1891, to November 16, 1892, when he resigned.
Around 1826 he bought an interest in the stage line from Hartford, Connecticut to Brattleboro, Vermont, soon holding extensive mail and stage contracts.
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Chapin was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1877), and served on the Committee of Ways And Means.
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He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1876 to the Forty-fifth Congress.
On 5 February 1857, the Chicago Merchants' Exchange company was incorporated by: Edmund D. Taylor, Thomas Hall, George Armour, James Peck, John P. Chapin, Walter S. Gurnee, Edward Kendall Rogers, Thomas Richmond, Julian Sidney Rumsey, Samuel B. Pomeroy, Elisha Wadsworth, Walter Loomis Newberry, Hiram Wheeler and George Steele.
Reprinted in 1987, with forward and notes by James H. Pickering, by the University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln.
After a year, he transferred to Williams College (Massachusetts) and received the A.B. degree in 1850.