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Short Name: | Lucius Chapin |
Full Name: | Chapin, Lucius, 1760-1842 |
Birth Year: | 1760 |
Death Year: | 1842 |
Lucius Chapin, 1760-1842
Born: April 25, 1760, Longmeadow (near Springfield), Massachusetts.
Died: December 24, 1842, Hamilton County, Ohio.
Buried: Originally at Walnut Hills Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio in 1842. Reinterred at Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio, January 26, 1858.
Lucius’ brother was Amzi Chapin. In 1775, Lucius joined the Continental Army in Boston as a fifer; re-enlisting in 1776, he served at the Battles of Ticonderoga and Stillwater, and endured the infamous winter of 1777-8 at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, with George Washington. After the war, he conducted singing schools in Vermont, New Hampshire and Massachusetts, and in 1787 moved to Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, later teaching in Rocbridge, Augusta and Rockingham Counties. Around 1797, he moved to Vernon, Kentucky. He retired in 1835 and moved to Hamilton County, Ohio.
--www.hymntime.com/tch/
Tunes by Lucius Chapin (9)![]() | As | Instances | Incipit |
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LIBERTY HALL | Lucius Chapin (Arr., c. 1801) | 1 | 51712 34321 35321 |
MORNING SONG (Dare) | Lucius Chapin, 1760-1842 (Composer) | 5 | 51234 32175 51234 |
NINETY-FIFTH | Chapin (Composer) | 2 | 11234 32123 45455 |
NINETY-THIRD PSALM | Chapin (Composer) | 7 | 56162 16556 16712 |
OLNEY (Tennessee Harmony) | Chapin (Composer) | 3 | 11615 56123 56312 |
ROCKBRIDGE | Chapin (Composer) | 3 | 15611 32113 53132 |
ROCKINGHAM (Chapin) | Chapin (Composer) | 2 | |
TWENTY-FOURTH | Lucius Chapin (Composer (attributed to)) | 34 | 51232 16551 23455 |
VERNON (Chapin) | Chapin (Composer) | 7 | 35554 35431 23454 |