Individual Details
Daniel R. Chaplin
(22 Jan 1820 - 20 Aug 1864)
Events
| Birth | 22 Jan 1820 | Red Bank, New Brunswick, Canada |  | ||
| Marriage | 28 Jun 1846 | Glenburn, Penobscot, Maine - Susan Davis Gibbs | | ||
| Census | 1 Jun 1850 | Bangor, Penobscot, Maine |  | | |
| Census | 1 Jun 1860 | Bangor, Penobscot, Maine | | | |
| Death | 20 Aug 1864 | injuries from a gunshot wound received at the Battle of Deep Bottom, Virginia - Turner's Lane U.S.A. General Hospital, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | | ||
| Burial | Mount Hope Cemetery, Bangor, Penobscot, Maine | | |||
| Bio Note | 1949 | a biographical sketch was published in a Chaplin family history | | |
Families
| Spouse | Susan Davis Gibbs (1822 - 1905) |
| Child | Winfield Scott Chaplin (1847 - 1918) |
| Child | Martha Gibbs Chaplin (1849 - 1850) |
| Child | Wingate Elisha Gibbs Chaplin (1851 - 1907) |
| Child | Daniel Amory Chaplin (1854 - 1861) |
| Child | Hugh Ross Chaplin (1858 - 1935) |
| Child | Amory Battles Chaplin (1863 - 1934) |
| Father | Benjamin Chaplin ( - ) |
| Mother | Jane Welch ( - ) |
Notes
Census
Daniel Chaplin was enumerated as head of household, age 30, male, laborer, and was born in Maine. Other members of the household were Susan Chaplin [wife], Winfield S. Chaplin [son], and Martha G. Chaplin [daughter].Census
Daniel Chaplin was enumerated as head of household, age 40, male, clerk, and was born in Maine. Other members of the household were Susan D. Chaplin [wife], Winfield S. Chaplin [son], Wingate E. G. Chaplin [son], Daniel Chaplin [son], and Hugh R. Chaplin [son].Bio Note
Colonel Daniel Chaplin born in Red Bank, New Brunswick, 22 January, 1820, moved with his farther's family to Bridgton, Maine, when he was about three years of age. There he lived until he was about twenty-one, when he became a clerk for Thurston and Metcalf, ship chandlers, of Bangor. When the Civil War broke out, he enlisted as a private in Co. F of the Second Maine Regiment. He was chosen captain of the company 28 May, 1861, and was promoted to the rank of major, 13 September of that year. On 11 July, 1862, he was appointed colonel of the Eighteenth Maine Regiment, which became in January, 1862, the First Maine Heavy Artillery. He continued in command until struck down by the bullet of a sharpshooter at Deep Bottom, Virginia, 16 August, 1864. He died four days later at Turner's Lane U.S.A. General Hospital, Philadelphia, and was buried in Mt. Hope Cemetery, Bangor. Colonel Chaplin was honored by General Order No. 67, War Department, Adjutant General's Office, 16 July, 1867, which appointed him to be a Brigadier General by Brevet, in the Volunteer Army of the United States, for gallant and meritorious services at the Battle of Deep Bottom, Virginia, to date from 17 August, 1864. The same General Order appointed him Major General by Brevet as of the same date. In the History of the First Maine Heavy Artillery appears this tribute to him: "He was a born soldier, attractive and magnetic in person, a fine horseman with commanding presence. He gave to his officers a royal friendship, to his soldiers a fatherly care, and to all a considerate appreciation of merit, wherever found. He was brave almost to recklessness, but modest withal."Endnotes
1. Milton Ellis and Leola Chapin Ellis, John Chaplin (1758-1837) of Rowley, Mass. and Bridgton, Me.: His Ancestry and Descendants (Westbrook, Maine: H. S. Cobb Printing Co., 1949), 53; digital image, HeritageQuest, HeritageQuest (flh.genealogy.com : accessed 23 April 2004.
2. Milton Ellis and Leola Chapin Ellis, John Chaplin (1758-1837) of Rowley, Mass. and Bridgton, Me.: His Ancestry and Descendants (Westbrook, Maine: H. S. Cobb Printing Co., 1949), 53; digital image, HeritageQuest, HeritageQuest (flh.genealogy.com : accessed 23 April 2004.
3. 1850 U.S. Census, Penobscot County, Maine, population schedule, City of Bangor, p. 77 (stamped 39), dwelling 556, family 599, line 28, Daniel Chaplin; digital images, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : accessed 22 May 2020); citing NARA microfilm publication M432, 1009 rolls.
4. 1860 U.S. Census, Penobscot County, Maine, population schedule, City of Bangor, Ward 5, p. 42, dwelling 301, family 306, line 1, Daniel Chaplin; digital images, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : accessed 22 May 2020); citing NARA microfilm publication M653, 1,438 rolls.
5. Milton Ellis and Leola Chapin Ellis, John Chaplin (1758-1837) of Rowley, Mass. and Bridgton, Me.: His Ancestry and Descendants (Westbrook, Maine: H. S. Cobb Printing Co., 1949), 53; digital image, HeritageQuest, HeritageQuest (flh.genealogy.com : accessed 23 April 2004.
6. Ancestry.com, Find-A-Grave, database with digital images (www.findagrave.com : accessed 22 May 2020), Memorial No. 19162.
7. Mount Hope Cemetery (Bangor, Maine; State Street), Daniel Chaplin gravestone, Lot 890CG; personally viewed by Dale Walter Mower, 24 September 2008.
8. Milton Ellis and Leola Chapin Ellis, John Chaplin (1758-1837) of Rowley, Mass. and Bridgton, Me.: His Ancestry and Descendants (Westbrook, Maine: H. S. Cobb Printing Co., 1949), 52-3; digital image, HeritageQuest, HeritageQuest (flh.genealogy.com : accessed 23 April 2004.