History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 457.
[Bourbon County]  [Paris City and Precinct]

M. C. CHAPLINE, dairyman; P. O. Paris; was born in Ohio County, W. Va.,
Nov. 2, 1828, son of Samuel H., brother of Gen. Moses Chapline.  The
Chapline family are contemporaneous with the early history of Wheeling, as
was also Noah Zane, who married in the Chapline family.  The subject of
these lines was left fatherless at any early age; upon his arriving at
manhood, he engaged in a cotton manufactory at Wheeling; he was one of the
proprietors of the Franklin Cotton Mill, where he was engaged until 1854,
when he went to Philadelphia, where he engaged in business, and remained
there until 1877, when he came to this county, and engaged in the whiskey
business. In 1879, he purchased the Lysle farm, just outside the limits of
Paris, at the Junction of the Humes and the Lexington and Paris Pike,
where he now resides.  His farm cost his $155 per acre.  He is engaged in
farming and is running the dairy business, having about thirty-five cows.
In January, 1865, he married Margaret Lewis, daughter of Douglas Lewis and
Elizabeth Clay.  Douglas Lewis was born Aug. 4, 1804, in this State.  Dec.
23, 1830 he married Elizabeth Payne Clay, daughter of Colonel Henry Clay,
of this county.  Douglas Lewis, was among the prominent citizens of Bourbon
County, and was a Representative in the Legislature.  He died October 26,
1867, having been a man that was well known throughout the county where
he had been a constant resident.  He had several children born him, which
are scattered about in the different parts of the country. Douglas resides
in Covington; Stephen in Arkansas; Thomas died in 1881; Asa resides at Blue
Springs, in Nicholas County; Frank in this county; Howard also in this
county.  Elizabeth, wife of Mr. Howard, of Montgomery County, and Margaret
Helm, wife of Mr. Chapline, and Mary E., wife of Frank Armstrong, of this
county.  Mr. Chapline is a member of the Knights of Honor.

Chapline Zane Lewis Clay Howard Helm Armstrong
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Covington-Kenton-KY Nicholas-KY Montgomery-KY AR Ohio-WV PA

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