From the book History of Walworth County Wisconsin, by Albert Clayton Beckwith, 
publ. 1912 - Page 499

WILLIAM DENSMORE CHAPIN (John3, Jacob2, John1), son of John CHAPIN and Clarissa 
PATTERSON, was born at Heath, Massachusetts, April 28, 1814.  He came to 
Bloomfield in 1837, and the next year he with his parents and his brother, 
Jonathan Patterson CHAPIN, bought land in sections 5, 6, 22, of that town.  His 
father was born March, 1790, and died December 29, 1865; his mother was born in 
1794 and died April 23, 1873.  He married September 29, 1847, Loretta, daughter 
of David Walker HYDE and Dorothy CHURCH.  She was born in Bennington county, in 
1824; came with her parents to Linn in 1846; died August 26, 1894.  Mr. CHAPIN 
served eight times on the county board and in 1856 as assemblyman, having been 
elected over Dr. Ezra A. MULFORD.  He died April 20, 1904.  His second wife, 
Lucinda HOTCHKISS, died November 18, 1905.

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