David Parshall Mapes (January 10, 1798 – May 17, 1890) was an American pioneer businessman and politician.
[1][2] The youngest of four children, his parents were of English origin and moved from Long Island to Coxsackie, where his father built a hotel, the Elm Tree House.
[3] At the age of twenty, Mapes went to Roxbury, Delaware County[1] to work in his brother-in-law's store.
He expanded his business undertakings to include a grist mill and farm, and the manufacture of potash and whisky.
In 1831, he served in the New York State Assembly, where he voted in favor of abolishing imprisonment for debt.