CHAPIN, Graham Hurd, a Representative from New York; born in Salisbury, Conn., February 10, 1799; moved to Lyons, Wayne County, N.Y., in 1817; graduated from Yale College in 1819; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1823 and practiced in Lyons; surrogate of Wayne County 1826-1833; district attorney of Wayne County in 1829 and 1830; moved to Rochester, N.Y., in 1833 and continued the practice of law; elected as a Jacksonian candidate to the Twenty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1835-March 3, 1837); died in Mount Morris, Livingston County, N.Y., September 8, 1843.
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