Pioneer history of Ingham County, compiled and arranged by Mrs. Franc L. Adams, secretary of the Ingham County pioneer and historical society.

VEVAY TOWNSHIP AND ITS HISTORY

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one of the Fuller farm, which was also known to the Indians, and
had yielded annual sugar crops for as long a time as the one on the
Chapin farm.
Mrs. Chapin's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Asher Lyon, came to
Vevay in an early day from Geneva, N. Y. Mr. Lyon died some
years ago in Gratiot county, where he had lived for some years,
but Mrs. Lyon and their eleven children are still living, and recently held a family reunion at the Chapin home in Eden, beneath
the original forest trees that surround the old homestead.
Since the death of Mr. Chapin in 1914 Mrs. Chapin has conducted the large farm very successfully, and last spring was
elected justice of the peace for Vevay, on the Republican ticket,
over her oldest son who ran against her. Like his father, J. W.
Chapin was active in the work of the Ingham County Agricultural
Society, the Farmers' Club and the County Pioneer and Historical
Society; in the latter societies Mrs. Chapin has held offices several
times.
Besides his widow, Mr. Chapin was survived by six children:
Almon M., named for his grandfather, owns a farm adjoining the
old homestead; Alice, who graduated fron the State Normal
College at Ypsilanti and the University of Pennsylvania, later
taking post graduate courses at Columbia and Harvard Universities. She has taught for a number of years, a part of the time
being in charge of the physically deficient children in the Detroit
schools and in those of Minneapolis, Minn. She is now superintendent of an extensive Settlement House in Minneapolis which
is supported by the wealthy people of that city.
Julius, a graduate of M. A. C., for some years county agricultural agent in various parts of the state, but now engaged in
business for himself in Traverse City, Mich. Ethel, for many
years a teacher in St. Johns, now taking a course in a Nurses
Training School in Chicago University. Warren, employed in
Detroit. Martha, a graduate of Ypsilanti Normal and Olivet
College, now teaching.
The Chapin family was one of the first in this section to establish a state game refuge on their land, which is kept up in strict
accordance with the law.