Chapin, Bela
journalist, author, poet, was born Feb. 19, 1829, in Newport, N. H. He was a printer, and in 1866 became proprietor of the Dartmouth printing and bookbinding establishment in Hanover, N. H. In 1882 he edited and published Poets of New Hampshire, a very valuable collection.
He has contributed numerous poems to current publications; and has made a translation in verse of Virgil's Eclogues.
He is the proprietor of the Granby Brook fruit and dairy farm of Claremont, N. H.; and has a library of two thousand volumes of standard works.