Katherine Elizabeth Chapin 
F, #16701, b. Dec 11, 1847, d. Jan 9, 1925
| Charts | Snow Descendants Chart |
Family | Milton Prince Higgins b. Dec 7, 1842, d. Mar 8, 1912 | |
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| Birth* | Dec 11, 1847 | Katherine Elizabeth Chapin was born on Dec 11, 1847 at Manchester, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States . |
| Book Excerpt* | HIGGINS, KATHARINE CHAPIN (Mrs. Milton P. Higgins), daughter of Aldus M. and Catherine Fisher (Sawin) Chapin, was born in Manchester, New Hampshire, December 11, 1847. Her father (born at Chicopee, Massachusetts, December 27, 1811; died at Worcester, Massachusetts, June 4, 1880), was a descendant of Deacon Samuel Chapin, a native of Paignton, Devonshire, England, whose name appears first in New England in the land records of Roxbury, Massachusetts, in 1631. Katharine Chapin entered school in 1860, and proceeded to Abbot Female Seminary (now Abbot Academy), Andover, Massachusetts, where she completed the course in 1868. She embraced the profession of teaching, and throughout her life has been identified with progress in education. She was married June 15, 1870, at Manchester, New Hampshire, to Milton Prince Higgins, son of Lewis and Susan (Whitney) Higgins. His ancestry was notable, being traced to the Mayflower Pilgrims, and in the old country to William the Conqueror. He was born at Standish, Maine, December 7, 1842, and died in Worcester, Massachusetts, March 8, 1912. As a successful manufacturer, the President of the Norton Emery Wheel Company and of the Plunger Elevator Company, he saw the need of technical training in colleges, and was the first to promote commercial trade schools in the United States. For twenty-eight years he was Superintendent of the Washburn Machine Shops at Worcester Polytechnic Institute of which he was a Trustee, and he was Vice-President of the American Society (p.380) of Mechanical Engineers. Mr. and Mrs. Higgins were the parents of four children: Aldus Chapin Higgins (born in Worcester, Massachusetts, December 7, 1872), Treasurer of the Norton Company and Trustee of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute; John Woodman Higgins (born in Worcester, September 1, 1874), President of the Worcester Pressed Steel Company; Katharine Elizabeth Higgins (born in Worcester, August 6, 1878), married in 1903 to R. Sanford Riley, President of the Riley-Stokes Company; and Olive Chapin Higgins, now Mrs. Lewis I. Prouty.1 | |
| Marriage* | Jun 15, 1870 | She married Milton Prince Higgins, son of Lewis Higgins and Susan Whitney, on Jun 15, 1870 at Manchester, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States. |
| Burial* | Jan 9, 1925 | Katherine Elizabeth Chapin was buried on Jan 9, 1925 at Worcester Rural Cemetery, Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States, Find A Grave Memorial# 48157109.2 |
| Death* | Jan 9, 1925 | She died on Jan 9, 1925, at age 77 at Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States.3 |