E. Y. Chapin

The 1930 Historical Edition of the Boone County Recorder devotes a full column to Mr. Chapin and his accomplishments.  The feature of the article is a *long* list of companies with which he's associated (mostly in Tennessee), but closes with these observations:

“[The above] biographical sketch was not prepared in Boone County.  If it had been it would have noted that the subject began his education under Miss Katie Davis, learned mental arithmetic under Professor  Billie Scott, and general depravity under the renowned Walker; and finally went over to the Lawrenceburg High School after the Petersburg instructors gave up on him.  The tendency toward industry indicated in the Who's Who sketch was not marked by the older residents of Petersburg; its only manifestation being the piling and sapping of staves and the riveting of hoops at the Cooper Shop.  An early bent toward commerce was noted when he opened a store at Second and Tanner Streets in 1885; but his old Preceptor, W. T. Stott, located just across the street, gave him such hot competition that he sold out to a drug store of which he became the trusted compounder of prescriptions.  From this he very naturally gravitated into the study of law in the office of John G. Carlisle in Covington.  While in Petersburg, he was a member of the coterie of which Ben Berkshire, John M. Botts, Frank Geisler and Harry Lyon are survivors.  His Who's Who biography does not mention his membership in an order known as Titus Tunis to which they belonged; nor in the Cooper Shop Club under the presidency of Harry Kirkhoff; nor the Sons of Temperance, who used to meet over Snyder's Store and in which he rose to be Worthy Patriarch.   It does not mention another office which he held - that of prosecuting attorney in the Kangaroo Court over which Judge George Berkshire presided. 

With these emendations we submit the Who's Who sketch to those who may be interested as evidence of what Mr. Chapin has been doing since he left old Boone.”

From the 1930 Historical Edition of the Boone County Recorder