Chaplin, John O’Brien, was born in Danvers, Mass., March 31, 1807. He was the eldest son of President Chaplin.

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Chaplin, John O’Brien, was born in Danvers, Mass., March 31, 1807. He was the eldest son of President Chaplin. He pursued his preparatory studies under the direction of students of Waterville College, where he graduated in 1825, He had charge of the Latin Preparatory School connected with the college not far from two years, when he was chosen tutor, and. subsequently Professor of the Latin and English Languages and Literature, which office he held for one year. Upon the resignation of his father as president of the college, Prof. Chaplin also left Waterville and accepted an appointment as Professor of Greek and Latin, in Columbian College, D.C. His connection with the college continued for ten years, from 1833 to 1848, when ill health compelled him to resign. For several years he continued his residence in Washington, giving occasional instruction, as his strength permitted, in the college, with which he had been connected so many years. He came North about 1850, and made his home with his brother, Rey. A. J. Chaplin, and his brothers-in-law, Drs. B. F. Bronson and T. J. Conant. He was an invalid for several years, and was incapable of assuming much -responsibility or performing much labor. Prof. Chaplin was a ripe, accomplished scholar. We are told that ‘‘a memory remarkably retentive to the last’’ made him ready master of his rich and varied learning. He is said to have been a most able and skillful critic of style; and his friends have deeply regretted that he did not leave to the world, as. an essayist, some fruits of his remarkable knowledge and critical acumen. But, diffident in temperament, fastidious in taste, possessed by lofty ideals, abstracted in mind and enfeebled in body, his classroom instructions, his conversation, and private letters gave only to his personal friends and pupils evidence of his real intellectual capacity and power. And a life blameless, devout, and tenderly religious was clouded by a mental gloom which he inherited from his distinguished father, and which was greatly aggravated by disease. Prof. Chaplin died at Conway, Mass., Dec. 22, 1872. From the Baptist Encyclopedia by William Cathcart photo from findagrave