Henry Chapin

Henry Chapin (May 13, 1811 – October 13, 1878) was a judge, a state legislator, and a three-term mayor of Worcester, Massachusetts.

[1] He served as an educator in Upton,[1] studied law at Cambridge, and passed the Massachusetts Bar in 1838.

[1] In 1848, he was appointed chief Judge of the Worcester County Probate and Insolvency Court.

[1] In 1853, Mayor Chapin was nominated by the Republican Party for a Congressional seat, which he declined.

[2] In 1864, he delivered a later published historical address in Uxbridge, which records the story of America's first legal colonial woman voter.

Unitarian Church, Uxbridge, MA
Unitarian Church at Uxbridge where Judge Henry Chapin delivered an address in 1864