[4] Her father, a native of Providence, Rhode Island, attended Trinity College, Hartford and received his medical degree from New York University.

[5] Her mother was most likely a close relative of the architect Howard Hoppin (1854–1940), who designed several buildings in the Pomfret Street Historic District, including the Chapin home.

[citation needed] Chapin wrote a play, produced in New York City in 1910, entitled The Deserters,[8][9][10] written with her husband, Robert Peyton Carter, a stage actor who often worked with Maude Adams.

The Girl of Gold written with Cleveland Moffett first appeared in the magazine Snappy Stories as a serial running from December, 1919 to March, 1920 and was produced as a film with Florence Vidor, Malcolm McGregor and Alan Roscoe in 1925.

[21] She was preceded in death, on June 8, 1918, in Monrovia, California, by her husband, Robert Peyton Carter,[22][23][24][25][26][27] who had appeared on stage as recently as March 1918 supporting Maude Adams in A Kiss for Cinderella.