Clara Christiana Morgan Chapin

[1] Her father was of Welsh origins, and her mother came of an old country family, the Blagdons, proprietors of the manor of Boddington since the days of William the Conqueror.

[2] She was educated in Clifton Ladies' College and passed the Cambridge local examination, the only form of university privilege open at that time to girls.

Mr. Chapin served as a member of the Nebraska State Legislature, while his wife, by the use of her pen and personal influence, aided in securing the enactment of the Slocum license law, at that time supposed to be the panacea in temperance matters.

She was particularly interested in all movements for the advancement of women and took an active part in the woman suffrage campaign of 1882.

[3] She served as editor of The Union Signal, an organ of the Woman's Temperance Publishing Association, from 1874.