Biography on charles chapin

For other people named Charles Chapin, see Charles Chapin (disambiguation).

Not to be confused with Charlie Chaplin.

Charles E.

Chapin (October 19, 1858 – December 13, 1930) was an American editor of Joseph Pulitzer’s Evening World. He was convicted of the murder of his wife and sentenced to a 20-year-to-life term in Sing Sing prison.

Career

Chapin was born in upstate Watertown, New York to Earl Chapin and Cecelia A.

Yale, member of the Yale family.^[1] His brother was Frederick Yale Chapin and his grandfather, Aaron Yale, was a California pioneer and the owner of a large carriage manufacturing business in Pennsylvania.^[2] His uncle was Col.

John Wesley Yale of the N.Y. Infantry, son-in-law of Col. John Means of the War of 1812, and was in the book, wall-paper, and art business in New York.^[3] Col. Yale was also Chairman for the Democrats in his county, a friend of Gov.

David B. Hill and Roswell P. Flower, vestryman of St