Rev. John was the son of Henry Smith Chaplin and Rebecca Sweet. He was born in Michigan, in Livingston County. His family was in Livingston for the 1850 census and Tuscola for the 1860 census. He can be found with his parents in the 1860 and 1870 census of Watertown Township, Tuscola County, Michigan. He married Emma Strobridge, in Tuscola County, Michigan Aug. 1, 1875.
Masonic Memorial Park, View record [ID:2258]:
Name: Chaplin , John Riley
Gender: M
Age: 55
Internment: Row: 9 Grave: 10 Lot: 1N
Grave: Block: 3 Page: 44
Interred: 10/22/1906 10/ 22/ 1906
DEATH: 10/21/1906 10/ 21/ 1906 [memorial has 22 Oct 1906]
Birth: / / 1851
".......Professor Chaplin is a native of the state of Michigan, his birth having occurred in Fowlerville, Livingston county, on the 30th of April, 1852. He acquired his education in Adrian College, spent six years in that institution of learning, and graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1883. Eight years previous to that time Professor Chaplin was married, in 1875, to Miss Emma Strobridge, of Lapeer, Michigan, and they attended college together. After their marriage, being an ordained minister of the Methodist Protestant church, he preached in that denomination for two years, but, liking the republican form of government of the Congregational church, became identified with that denomination in 1886, and accepted a Congregational pastorate. In 1889 he came to Washington, accepting the pastorate of the First Congregational church of Olympia. But for years he had been revolving in his mind the idea of establishing an independent university, not under political or denominational control. He saw in that city an opening for the materialization of his plans, and resigning his ministerial charge at once entered upon the work involved in the founding of such an institution. He is meeting with the highest realization of his plans, and his efforts have been and will doubtless continue to be a resultant factor in the intellectual development of that portion of the state. He has also become a prominent factor in the upbuilding and improvement of the city, and has interested a number of men of high standing and wealth in his project.
He has secured an excellent faculty for the university and has embodied in his plans a department of travel by which the institution will give twenty-eight thousand miles of travel practically free, furnishing guides, chaperons
and instructors. This travel will be a part of the four years' course and will be of immense value to students, placing them in touch not only with the text books, but with the entire country as well. The whole enterprise is
now on a good financial basis, and Professor Chaplin is deserving of the highest praise for both the plan and its execution.
To the Professor and his wife have been born five [six] children. The eldest daughter, Grace R., a most interesting and intelligent young lady, died recently at the age of nineteen years. [Frank Chaplin 1876 - 1877 resting in Michigan on his grandfathers plot.} One son, Emery S., is both a student in the University and the editor of a monthly magazine, called the College Independent. The other children are Ethel T., Gurnsey K. and Winthrop L. They are all Congregationalists in religious faith except Gurnsey, who is a Methodist. Professor Chaplin still preaches occasionally and never loses an opportunity to advocate broad, liberal, independent Christian thought, and character. As in religion, so in politics, he is liberal and independent, but on account of moral convictions always votes the Prohibition ticket. While in Michigan he joined the Masonic fraternity, becoming a member of Otsego Lodge, No. 78, F. & A. M., in which he has filled the office of chaplain. He is a man of original, practical and progressive ideas, and of marked natural and acquired ability, possessing special business enterprise as well as strong mentality. Such men are of value to any city and sure to be appreciated for
the work they do." Source: "A History of The Puget Sound Country Its Resources, Its Commerce and Its People", by Col. William Farrand Prosser, Vol. 1 1903
Masonic Memorial Park, View record [ID:2258]:
Name: Chaplin , John Riley
Gender: M
Age: 55
Internment: Row: 9 Grave: 10 Lot: 1N
Grave: Block: 3 Page: 44
Interred: 10/22/1906 10/ 22/ 1906
DEATH: 10/21/1906 10/ 21/ 1906 [memorial has 22 Oct 1906]
Birth: / / 1851
".......Professor Chaplin is a native of the state of Michigan, his birth having occurred in Fowlerville, Livingston county, on the 30th of April, 1852. He acquired his education in Adrian College, spent six years in that institution of learning, and graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1883. Eight years previous to that time Professor Chaplin was married, in 1875, to Miss Emma Strobridge, of Lapeer, Michigan, and they attended college together. After their marriage, being an ordained minister of the Methodist Protestant church, he preached in that denomination for two years, but, liking the republican form of government of the Congregational church, became identified with that denomination in 1886, and accepted a Congregational pastorate. In 1889 he came to Washington, accepting the pastorate of the First Congregational church of Olympia. But for years he had been revolving in his mind the idea of establishing an independent university, not under political or denominational control. He saw in that city an opening for the materialization of his plans, and resigning his ministerial charge at once entered upon the work involved in the founding of such an institution. He is meeting with the highest realization of his plans, and his efforts have been and will doubtless continue to be a resultant factor in the intellectual development of that portion of the state. He has also become a prominent factor in the upbuilding and improvement of the city, and has interested a number of men of high standing and wealth in his project.
He has secured an excellent faculty for the university and has embodied in his plans a department of travel by which the institution will give twenty-eight thousand miles of travel practically free, furnishing guides, chaperons
and instructors. This travel will be a part of the four years' course and will be of immense value to students, placing them in touch not only with the text books, but with the entire country as well. The whole enterprise is
now on a good financial basis, and Professor Chaplin is deserving of the highest praise for both the plan and its execution.
To the Professor and his wife have been born five [six] children. The eldest daughter, Grace R., a most interesting and intelligent young lady, died recently at the age of nineteen years. [Frank Chaplin 1876 - 1877 resting in Michigan on his grandfathers plot.} One son, Emery S., is both a student in the University and the editor of a monthly magazine, called the College Independent. The other children are Ethel T., Gurnsey K. and Winthrop L. They are all Congregationalists in religious faith except Gurnsey, who is a Methodist. Professor Chaplin still preaches occasionally and never loses an opportunity to advocate broad, liberal, independent Christian thought, and character. As in religion, so in politics, he is liberal and independent, but on account of moral convictions always votes the Prohibition ticket. While in Michigan he joined the Masonic fraternity, becoming a member of Otsego Lodge, No. 78, F. & A. M., in which he has filled the office of chaplain. He is a man of original, practical and progressive ideas, and of marked natural and acquired ability, possessing special business enterprise as well as strong mentality. Such men are of value to any city and sure to be appreciated for
the work they do." Source: "A History of The Puget Sound Country Its Resources, Its Commerce and Its People", by Col. William Farrand Prosser, Vol. 1 1903
Rev. John was the son of Henry Smith Chaplin and Rebecca Sweet. He was born in Michigan, in Livingston County. His family was in Livingston for the 1850 census and Tuscola for the 1860 census. He can be found with his parents in the 1860 and 1870 census of Watertown Township, Tuscola County, Michigan. He married Emma Strobridge, in Tuscola County, Michigan Aug. 1, 1875.
Masonic Memorial Park, View record [ID:2258]:
Name: Chaplin , John Riley
Gender: M
Age: 55
Internment: Row: 9 Grave: 10 Lot: 1N
Grave: Block: 3 Page: 44
Interred: 10/22/1906 10/ 22/ 1906
DEATH: 10/21/1906 10/ 21/ 1906 [memorial has 22 Oct 1906]
Birth: / / 1851
".......Professor Chaplin is a native of the state of Michigan, his birth having occurred in Fowlerville, Livingston county, on the 30th of April, 1852. He acquired his education in Adrian College, spent six years in that institution of learning, and graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1883. Eight years previous to that time Professor Chaplin was married, in 1875, to Miss Emma Strobridge, of Lapeer, Michigan, and they attended college together. After their marriage, being an ordained minister of the Methodist Protestant church, he preached in that denomination for two years, but, liking the republican form of government of the Congregational church, became identified with that denomination in 1886, and accepted a Congregational pastorate. In 1889 he came to Washington, accepting the pastorate of the First Congregational church of Olympia. But for years he had been revolving in his mind the idea of establishing an independent university, not under political or denominational control. He saw in that city an opening for the materialization of his plans, and resigning his ministerial charge at once entered upon the work involved in the founding of such an institution. He is meeting with the highest realization of his plans, and his efforts have been and will doubtless continue to be a resultant factor in the intellectual development of that portion of the state. He has also become a prominent factor in the upbuilding and improvement of the city, and has interested a number of men of high standing and wealth in his project.
He has secured an excellent faculty for the university and has embodied in his plans a department of travel by which the institution will give twenty-eight thousand miles of travel practically free, furnishing guides, chaperons
and instructors. This travel will be a part of the four years' course and will be of immense value to students, placing them in touch not only with the text books, but with the entire country as well. The whole enterprise is
now on a good financial basis, and Professor Chaplin is deserving of the highest praise for both the plan and its execution.
To the Professor and his wife have been born five [six] children. The eldest daughter, Grace R., a most interesting and intelligent young lady, died recently at the age of nineteen years. [Frank Chaplin 1876 - 1877 resting in Michigan on his grandfathers plot.} One son, Emery S., is both a student in the University and the editor of a monthly magazine, called the College Independent. The other children are Ethel T., Gurnsey K. and Winthrop L. They are all Congregationalists in religious faith except Gurnsey, who is a Methodist. Professor Chaplin still preaches occasionally and never loses an opportunity to advocate broad, liberal, independent Christian thought, and character. As in religion, so in politics, he is liberal and independent, but on account of moral convictions always votes the Prohibition ticket. While in Michigan he joined the Masonic fraternity, becoming a member of Otsego Lodge, No. 78, F. & A. M., in which he has filled the office of chaplain. He is a man of original, practical and progressive ideas, and of marked natural and acquired ability, possessing special business enterprise as well as strong mentality. Such men are of value to any city and sure to be appreciated for
the work they do." Source: "A History of The Puget Sound Country Its Resources, Its Commerce and Its People", by Col. William Farrand Prosser, Vol. 1 1903
Masonic Memorial Park, View record [ID:2258]:
Name: Chaplin , John Riley
Gender: M
Age: 55
Internment: Row: 9 Grave: 10 Lot: 1N
Grave: Block: 3 Page: 44
Interred: 10/22/1906 10/ 22/ 1906
DEATH: 10/21/1906 10/ 21/ 1906 [memorial has 22 Oct 1906]
Birth: / / 1851
".......Professor Chaplin is a native of the state of Michigan, his birth having occurred in Fowlerville, Livingston county, on the 30th of April, 1852. He acquired his education in Adrian College, spent six years in that institution of learning, and graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1883. Eight years previous to that time Professor Chaplin was married, in 1875, to Miss Emma Strobridge, of Lapeer, Michigan, and they attended college together. After their marriage, being an ordained minister of the Methodist Protestant church, he preached in that denomination for two years, but, liking the republican form of government of the Congregational church, became identified with that denomination in 1886, and accepted a Congregational pastorate. In 1889 he came to Washington, accepting the pastorate of the First Congregational church of Olympia. But for years he had been revolving in his mind the idea of establishing an independent university, not under political or denominational control. He saw in that city an opening for the materialization of his plans, and resigning his ministerial charge at once entered upon the work involved in the founding of such an institution. He is meeting with the highest realization of his plans, and his efforts have been and will doubtless continue to be a resultant factor in the intellectual development of that portion of the state. He has also become a prominent factor in the upbuilding and improvement of the city, and has interested a number of men of high standing and wealth in his project.
He has secured an excellent faculty for the university and has embodied in his plans a department of travel by which the institution will give twenty-eight thousand miles of travel practically free, furnishing guides, chaperons
and instructors. This travel will be a part of the four years' course and will be of immense value to students, placing them in touch not only with the text books, but with the entire country as well. The whole enterprise is
now on a good financial basis, and Professor Chaplin is deserving of the highest praise for both the plan and its execution.
To the Professor and his wife have been born five [six] children. The eldest daughter, Grace R., a most interesting and intelligent young lady, died recently at the age of nineteen years. [Frank Chaplin 1876 - 1877 resting in Michigan on his grandfathers plot.} One son, Emery S., is both a student in the University and the editor of a monthly magazine, called the College Independent. The other children are Ethel T., Gurnsey K. and Winthrop L. They are all Congregationalists in religious faith except Gurnsey, who is a Methodist. Professor Chaplin still preaches occasionally and never loses an opportunity to advocate broad, liberal, independent Christian thought, and character. As in religion, so in politics, he is liberal and independent, but on account of moral convictions always votes the Prohibition ticket. While in Michigan he joined the Masonic fraternity, becoming a member of Otsego Lodge, No. 78, F. & A. M., in which he has filled the office of chaplain. He is a man of original, practical and progressive ideas, and of marked natural and acquired ability, possessing special business enterprise as well as strong mentality. Such men are of value to any city and sure to be appreciated for
the work they do." Source: "A History of The Puget Sound Country Its Resources, Its Commerce and Its People", by Col. William Farrand Prosser, Vol. 1 1903
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