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If you provide me with some dates [birth, death, marriage] for these people, I'll see what I can do.
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Surnames: SOPHER, FULLER
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Thank You David. CHAPIN's are a very interesting family. My paternal grandmother was Eunice Isabelle CHAPIN, dau. of Sidney Smith CHAPIN. but I haven't been able to find his father. The family was from N. Y. and originally from Vermont. Does anyone know anything about this branch of the CHAPIN family?
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President Taft's ancestry did not turn out the way I expected. It should have had two columns. Here it is again. His paternal descent from Josiah Chapin and Mary King is on the first line of each generation and his maternal descent is on the secodn line.
Gen. 3
Seth Chapin m. Bethiah Thurston
Deborah Chapin m. Samuel Read
Gen. 4
Dea. John Chapin m. Dorcas Wood
Hopestill Read m. William Holbrook
Gen. 5
Dea. John Chapin m. Rhoda Albee
Deborah Holbrook m. Joseph Torrey
Gen. 6
Bethia Chapin m. Levi Haywood a/k/a Howard
Capt. William Torrey m. Anna Davenport
Gen. 7
Sylvia Howard m. Peter Rawson Taft
Samuel Davenport Torrey m. Susan Holman Waters
Gen. 8 Judge Alphonso Taft m. Louisa Maria Torrey
Gen. 9 William Howard Taft
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President and Chief Justice William Howard Taft has two descents from Dea. Samuel Chapin, both from Josiah Chapin and Mary King. They are:
Gen. 3 Seth Chapin Deborah Chapin
Bethiah Thurston Samuel Read
Gen. 4 Dea. John Chapin Hopestill Read
Dorcas Wood William Holbrook
Gen. 5 Dea. John Chapin Deborah Holbrook
Rhoda Albee Joseph Torrey
Gen. 6 Bethia Chapin Capt. William Torrey
Levi Haywood Anna Davenport
a/k/a Howard
Gen. 7 Sylvia Howard Samuel Davenport Torrey
Peter Rawson Taft Susan Holman Waters
Gen. 8 Judge Alphonso Taft Louisa Maria Torrey
Gen. 9 William Howard Taft
President Stephen Grover Cleveland also has a descent from Dea. Samuel Chapin
Gen. 2 Hannah Chapin m. John Hitchcock
Gen. 3 Ensign John Hitchcock m. Mary Ball
Gen. 4 Samuel Hitchcock m. Ruth Stebbins
Gen. 5 Margaret Hitchcock m. Richard Falley
Gen. 6 Margaret Falley m. Dea. William Cleveland
Gen. 7 Richard Falley Cleveland m. Ann Neal
Gen. 8 Stephen Grover Cleveland
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I heard that one of the presidents is descended from a CHAPIN. What president was that?