Benjamin Chapin was an American stage actor best known as an impersonator of Abraham Lincoln. From childhood Chapin had an obsession with the assassinated president, and had a lengthy career playing him on the Lyceum circuit and in vaudeville. In 1906 he wrote a play Lincoln which was staged at the Liberty Theatre on Broadway following directly on from a production of the play The Clansman by Thomas Dixon Jr.
- Occupation
- actor, film actor, stage actor
- Born
- August 9, 1872, 1874
- Died
- June 2, 1918, 1918
