Horatio Chapin
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Horatio Chapin was an American pioneer and a pioneer settler of South Bend, Indiana. A native of Massachusetts, his family moved to Detroit, Michigan in 1822. In 1831, Chapin travelled by pony along Native American trails to reach a trading post known then simply as the "south bend" in the St. Joseph River of northern Indiana. He set up the first general store of the region, and also helped establish the first church and Sunday school for residents.[4] With the incorporation of the town of South Bend in 1835, he became the first president of the board of town trustees. [5] A businessman and later banker in both South Bend and Chicago, Chapin became one of the wealthier members of the town. In 1855, he began to develop an estate just north of the city center, which eventually developed into the Chapin Park National Historic District, where his imposing Gothic Revival mansion, now known as the Horatio Chapin House, is located. In 1867 Chapin served as the founding president of the St Joseph County Historical Society.[6]