Draft:Cyrenius Chapin

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Cyrenius Chapin (February 7, 1769- February 20, 1838) was the first physician to practice in Buffalo, New York. In 1803, he purchased the first lot sold by the Holland Land Company in the village of New Amsterdam Buffalo, New York. Chapin is best known for being the last to confront the British army before they burned Buffalo in the War of 1812. When Chapin built a frame house for himself and his wife Sylvia on his Buffalo property in 1805, it was the sixteenth frame house in the village. As a local Federalist Federalist Party partisan, Chapin supported policies that limited British interference at the Canadian border. He founded several Western New York institutions, including the first almshouse, St. Paul's Episcopal Church, the Erie County Medical Society, and the Erie County Agricultural Society.^[1] He fired the last cannon shot at the British before they burned BuffaloHistory of Buffalo, New York in 1813 and in December 1837 he provided shelter and support to the anti-British leader of the Patriot (Hunter) Wars, Canadian William Lloyd Mackenzie.^[2]

Typical of America's provincial frontier influencers, Chapin did much to establish Buffalo's infrastructure in the early 1800s. A visitor to Buffalo once asked what sort of man was this Dr. Cyrenius Chapin, "I have heard so much about him." The answer, "Oh, the doc is a fine fellow, he does all the praying, swearing and shouting for this community." (Viewed in nineteenth century scrapbook at Buffalo and Erie County Library.)