Rev Dr Rev Dr Augusta Jane CHAPIN

1836 - 1905  (68 years)

• Birth	16 Jul 1836	NY   [1, 2]
  Note	1882  [3]
  	Rev. AUGUSTA J. CHAPIN was ordained the same year with Olympia Brown, and has successfully labored in the West. During the year 1874 she was noticeably engaged in reconciling adverse societies in San Francisco, and was the means of placing that flourishing church now in California upon a solid basis. She was afterward pastor of the Universalist church in [p.427] Pittsburg, Penn., but is now in the West again. She was a member of the first congress of women held in New York, and contributed a paper on "Woman in the Ministry." She has occasionally furnished sermons to the press.
  Note	12 Mar 1897  [4]
  	From the Womens World section of the "Hornellsville Weekly Tribune," March 12, 1897. "A Woman D. D. " "The Rev. Dr. Augusta J. Chapin of Chicago has returned from a year's travels in Europe and is now visiting friends in Boston. She is an alumna of the University of Michigan, and is said to be the only woman upon whom has been conferred the degree of doctor of divinity. As a clergyman she has made a creditable record in the various pastorates she has held in Iowa City, Ia.; Lansing, Mich.; Pittsburg; Aurora, Ills.; Omaha and Chicago. She is devoted to her profession and declares that, with all her experience behind her, if it were hers to choose her vocation anew, she would still be a minister."
  Obituary	5 Aug 1905  [5]
  		Augusta Chapin
  Death	30 Jun 1905	New York, New York, NY   [6]
  	From "The Iowa Citizen" newspaper, July 5, 1905: "Miss Chapin Died in N.Y. Lady Who Was Formerly Pastor in the Unitarian Church Here is Dead Many people here will be interested in knowing that Miss Augusta Chapin died July 1 in New York City. Death was caused by pneumonia and the deceased was sixty-nine years old. More than thirty years ago she was pastor in the Unitarian church at this place and subsequently she has held many prominent positions, filling at one time the pulpit of the Universalist church at Mount Vernon. She was a champion of woman's rights."
  Burial	Maple Grove Cemetery, Mason, Ingham, MI   [6]
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  Father	Almon Morris CHAPIN,   b. 25 Nov 1810, Chicopee, Hampden, MA d. 6 Sep 1878, Eden Township, Ingham, MI (Age 67 years)
  Mother	Jane PEASE,   b. 31 Mar 1814, Livonia, Livingston, NY d. 20 Oct 1892 (Age 78 years)
  Family ID	F601	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 16 Jul 1836 - NY Death - 30 Jun 1905 - New York, New York, NY Burial - - Maple Grove Cemetery, Mason, Ingham, MI  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

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• Sources

  [S1850] 1850 United States Federal Census, (National Archives and Records Administration, Washington D. C., 1850), 1850. [S1860] 1860 United States Federal Census, (National Archives and Records Administration, Washington D. C., 1860), 1860. [S359] Hanaford, Phebe A., Women of the Century, (True & Co., Augusta, ME, 1882), 359. [S361] A Woman D. D., 361. [S601] Print Obituary, Augusta Chapin D.D.: The Woman's Tribune (Beatrice, NE), August 5, 1905, page 3., 601. [S500] Find A Grave, 500.