RoyDikemanChapin (23 February 1880 - February 10, 1936) was an American industrialist and automaker.
Chapin was also behind the 1918 formation of the Essex Motors Company, a subsidiary of Hudson.
While Chapin viewed a system of professionally designed and built roadways as the greatest way to grow the automobile industry, he also saw the modern roadways movement as a way to secure long range strength for the United States as a nation.
Chapin lived five years in New Haven, two in New York City and eight near Norwich, Conn., and then came West with his parents and located in the city of Marshall, Mich., where his father had been called to the rectorship of the Episcopal Church of that city.
Chapin, as a boy attended school in Connecticut and in the city of Marshall, and graduated at Racine College, Racine, Wis., receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts in the class of 1867.
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