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A note from the Chase Chronicles - July 1915
THE CATSKILL CHASES
"Zephaniah Chase (Thomas line), migrated from Holme's hole, Vineyard Haven,
Mass., in 1787 to New York State, and settled in the Catskill Mountains,
then a wilderness. There was but one neighbor within five miles. Even when
his children were grown, there was no church in the region, and minister's
visits were rare as those of angels. At the sixth annual reunion of our
association at Boston, September 7, 1905, Rev. P. N. Chase, Ph.D., gave the
address. His subject was "Our kinsmen of the Catskills," I quote from it:
"One of Zephaniah's daughters, Abigail, dressed in home made linen of her
own weaving and making, was working industriously at her loom one day. The
men were outside butchering, assisted by a justice of the peace. Ministers
of the Gospel were then rarely seen. Her lover rode up on horseback, and
immediately saw his opportunity. Dismounting, he stated the case to Abigail,
and she stepped out from the loom. The justice was called, and as they were,
the marriage ceremony was performed."
"One of the sons, Charles, keeping company with a neighbor's daughter,
thought to frighten her one night. Securely wrapped in a sheet he knocked on
the door, expecting she would be affrighted at the sight of the ghost.
Seizing a stick she gave the joker a good drubbing, before he could explain
the matter. However, he concluded that one so brave in an emergency would
make just the wife for him, so proposed and was accepted."
"One of the granddaughters was born without legs. She developed great
strength in her arms and was able to do nearly everything which those who
were physically perfect could accomplish. She was a very fine pianist and
music teacher. She married , raised a family of four children, and died a
few years ago, having reached the age of nearly three score and ten."
Issue of Oct. 1914
SOCIETY OF COLONIAL FAMILIES.
By Rev. George A. Smith, Secretary
"We would like readers of the Chase Chronicle to know that the Society of
Colonial Families is very much alive and robust. Members of the Chase
Association are invited to our meeting October 20th, at our new home, 301
Newbury St. And more than this we trust some of you will feel like joining
in our movement to pay for this home. We also hope that when you have a
mid-winter meeting you will, with other associations, select this as your
meeting place.
This society, which is inclusive of all Family Associations, proposes some
activities in an educational and social way that will be entirely new and
modern. A hint of this is to be found on the editorial page of the September
Colonial. The justification of our colonial ancestry means more than simply
remembering our forefathers. It must of necessity mean that we are to fulfil
their ideals in the rearing of the American edifice , the corner stones of
which they laid. The stones for this superstructure are not to be wholly of
colonial selection; many of them will have been hewn out of far away lands
and transported to these shores. In a word, the future making of this nation
must include the children of later pilgrims in affiliation with children of
the early pilgrims. This is fore ordained to be, and how much better is it
for us to accept this philosophy cheerfully and bravely, rather than
reluctantly and cowardly, as so many seemed inclined to do.
Who but colonial descendants should lead off in a hearty and courageous
spirit upon the direct matter of assimilating our new comers, and doing it
in the right way. Let us put our heads together over this problem."
Lonnie Chase
chase1858(a)bwn.net
You know Chase group. I am so sorry all we hear of is the male Chase line
and the marvelous wonderful things they did. we never hear about what the
women Chase family did and I am sure many of them contributed a great deal
other than reproduce and become good mothers and grandmothers. I hope the
next generation will hear about the women.
Ginger in AZ.
A note from the Chase Chronicles - July 1915
SCION OF NOTED FAMILIES
(Madison, Wis., Democrat.)
"As a means of working his way through the university, Chase Donaldson, 605
State Street, a scion of one of America's greatest families is employed as a
table waiter at the Woman's building. His great grandfather was Salmon P.
Chase, a candidate for the presidential nomination in opposition to Abraham
Lincoln, Secretary of the United States Treasury under Lincoln, Senator from
and Governor of the state of Ohio; his grandfather was William Sprague, the
famous Civil War governor of Rhode Island; His father was the well known
Surgeon Donaldson, of the United States Army, who met death in the
San Francisco earthquake and fire.
Chase Donaldson is a freshman, enrolled in the university school of
engineering. After the death of his father, he resided with relatives in
Washington, D. C.
"I came to Wisconsin because of being so advised by friends of my father's
in Washington. They told me that for worth of scholastic training Wisconsin
stood among the few foremost in the rank of American Colleges. While I was a
child receiving my preliminary education, I became obsessed with an inherent
desire to be a graduate of an engineering school of high standing
it may appear laughable that I, just a young, inexperienced boy as yet,
should say that a child could conceive such an idea. but nevertheless that
is why I am trying to work my way through the university of Wisconsin."
Most people take a decided interest in famous ancestors and in telling
others and less fortunate people about them. Some people, especially when
they are rich smash a lot of working-hours-a- day laws in order to splice
some famous blue blooded ancestor to their family tree. "My grandfather was
the Honorable So and So, or Lord this and that" has opened many an otherwise
barred door of society. But this is not the case of Chase Donaldson. He is
typical in every respect to the young vigorous, red blooded American
Democrat of today. He wants to labor for what he gets and win on his own
qualifications.
He said, "I would rather not have you say that I am a great grandson of
Salmon Chase, or that I am in any ways related to him. Of course I am proud
to have him as a great grandfather. But I am a student, and in Washington I
knew so many boys who attempted to and believed that they should receive
certain passing marks just because their father was a well known man
connected with government life - and so it was that the professors so knew
them. I am here to work, I am depending on myself in so far as I can, I want
to make good by my own efforts, and I do not want the real men and the real
women prejudiced against me, because they think that I am trying to get by
on the merits of those that died before I was born. And we had a hard time
trying to convince young Donaldson that such was not the spirit of the
Wisconsin truly democratic faculty."
Lonnie Chase
chase1858(a)bwn.net
Note from the Chronicles- July 1929
Biography of Lynwood M. Chace
** Punctuation and spelling Verbatim, as appeared in the article.
________
A MASSACHUSETTS BOY WHOSE PERCEPTION
AND PATIENCE HAVE MADE HIM WELL
KNOWN NOT ONLY IN HIS OWN
COUNTRY BUT ALSO ABROAD.
By Lewis E. Stoyle
(Boston Transcript , August 24,
1929)
In the quiet little town of Swansea which slumbers a few miles from Fall
River, there lives a young man who has made an enviable reputation for
himself throughout the United States and Europe simply by keeping his eyes
open and by exercising infinite patience.
Readers of the newspapers and of various magazines have noticed an
increasing number of photographs portraying in varied moods the wild life of
the air, land and water. A butterfly poised on a thistle, a dragon fly
caught in a spider's filmy web, a couple of frogs squatting in amphibian
dignity beneath a toadstool; any subject, in fact, that can be found in the
woods or fields and that can be persuaded to stay still long enough is
considered good subject matter for the camera of Lynwood M. Chace.
Most nature photographers are generally visualized as gray-bearded veterans,
men who have spent their lives chasing elusive subjects all over the world.
One reads of this or that scientific expedition preparing to descend upon
certain branches of the animal kingdom as a sort of surprise party and the
imagination staggers under the list of cameras and equipment that these
explorers consider necessary to bring back pictures of a native of some
place or other carrying a spear or a lion crouching in the grass.
One explorer in a recent book took a chapter to tell what an elaborate
camera equipment he lugged along with him. Everything had to be made to
order. Even the lenses had to be ground especially for him; nothing that
had been manufactured in this country or abroad was quite the ticket.
Mr. Chace of Swansea, however, is a photographer of another ilk. He owns
two models, a view camera and a reflex, and most of his work is done with
the former. His work is the best example of what can be done by a man who
knows his camera and his subjects that the reporter ever met.
Thoreau once said, "I have traveled a great deal in Concord," and Mr. Chace
might well paraphrase the statement. With the exception on one trip down in
Maine, he has secured his subjects in his own vicinity, most of them in his
own backyard. Keeping the eyes open, seeing potential pictures in the
commonest of creatures that one may encounter while walking through a garden
or a field, that is his secret, if it is a secret, and anyone who wishes may
follow his example.
Mr. Chace is a slender young man under thirty, a trifle diffident in manner,
much more at home in the woods than in a room with a reporter, as he
cheerfully confessed. Most of his life has been spent outdoors. "Even as a
lad", he said, "I did not play with other boys. I much preferred to roam
through the fields and woods, studying the animals and birds, learning all I
could about them.
"I recall, as a small boy, rambling about the meadows and woodlands seeking
out the secret places where birds' nests might be found and learning to
recognize them by their songs and markings. At dusk I have waited for the
whip-poor-will to revisit the lichen-grown rail fence that bordered a swamp,
or at other times have climbed the tallest tree that bordered the meadow to
observe if possible, the bittern in vocal action.
I am not a naturalist, as many people think," he continued. "I have pursued
my studies in nature's schoolroom for ten years or more and my graduation
seems to be a long way off. I am not familiar with many of the Latin names
of my subjects and if I get an order to photograph the Callosamia Promethea,
for example, ten to one I have to go look it up. When I find what kind of a
moth it is I know where to go to find it. I am a naturalist more on the
order of the Indian. I know where to find my subjects but little about
their scientific names."
Mr. Chace made his first nature study some years ago. Wandering along the
edge of a pond he saw a little green heron standing on a stone near the
shore thinking heron thoughts. He crept to a clump of willows about ten
feet away from the bird and took a snapshot of it with a No. 1 Brownie
borrowed from a friend. Later on he took a crow by the same method.
While the results were satisfactory in one way the images were so small that
the heron looked like a long-legged chicken and the crow resembled a
chipping sparrow. It didn't take Mr. Chace long to come to the conclusion
that if he intended to become a nature photographer he would need something
better than a box camera. So he did the best his pocketbook allowed him and
purchased a 5 x 7 view camera, a clamp to hold it on the limb of a tree and
a fish line with which to work the shutter some distance away from the
camera. After experimenting for some time it occurred to him that perchance
some newspaper editor might like his pictures as much as the friends to whom
he had been showing them. He sent a few of them out as harbingers of what
might be forthcoming and they were accepted at once.
That was four years ago. Now Mr. Chace is supplying nature photographs to
newspapers and magazines throughout the United States and foreign countries,
including England, France, Belgium, Germany, Holland, Mexico, Canada,
Argentina and Australia.
If there is one thing that exasperates this nature photographer, and justly
so, it is the suggestion that his pictures are faked, that is, made from
stuffed specimens. With the exception of certain bugs and beetles, all his
subjects are alive and you can't blame a man who has spent all morning
trying to persuade a kitten to sit on top of a snapping turtle if he resents
the implication that the turtle is a stuffed model.
"In the first place," said Mr. Chace, "it is exceedingly difficult for even
a taxidermist to stuff an animal so that it will appear life-like when
photographed, and secondly, even if this were done it would be far too
expensive for me to buy my subjects made to order in this way."
"Some people also wonder how it is possible to find enough subjects to
photograph. That is easy. Always carry your camera with you while rambling
through the woods and fields as it will be necessary to photograph many
subjects as you discover them, such as a bird building its nest, a bumble
bee sipping nectar from a clover blossom, or a prettily marked snake basking
in the sunshine."
"Handling a bee is a ticklish business and many people are a bit reluctant
about carrying reptiles home in a lively state to pose them at their
leisure. There are a number of such subjects which must be taken while the
taking is good."
Mr. Chace keeps his eyes open for ideas as well as objects. Two crickets
nibbling an ear of sweet corn gave him a suggestion; a delicate dragon fly
clinging to a reed over a pool presented a beautiful study; a Turks Cap lily
with a locust and katydid balanced on the spotted blossom proved unique; a
spider winding silky strands about an imprisoned grasshopper gave a
practical hint.
"Two toadstools I found on a morning walk suggested to me that a couple of
toads sitting between them might make an unusual picture," observed Mr.
Chace. "It did, taking well in this country and also in Europe."
This one picture will give some idea of the patience this man has to
exercise to get his results. In composing the picture he found some
difficulty in getting the right kind of toad. To be eligible the subject
had to possess a fine sort of dignity, a regular aristocrat of the toad
world, one that stood out among his fellows like a prophet of old among his
people.
Not caring to spend several days looking for toads Mr. Chace advertised his
wants among the boys of the neighborhood with the result that advertising is
supposed to bring. The idea worked well and a varies supply was submitted
for inspection. Eventually a boy brought two specimens which he had
discovered entering a dog house and the twain measured up to the
specifications.
This was just the beginning. Taking the two amphibians to the toadstools
the photographer started in to pose them. No sooner would he get his and
then the other would tire of the game and hop off for fresh fields,
whereupon Mr. Chace would crawl out from under his focusing cloth and speed
after them. Sometimes one toad would remain seated, if that's what a toad
camera focused on them than first one does, while his playmate hopped.
Sometimes they hopped together. More often than not they would move just
enough to spoil the picture. Conduct exasperating enough to make a man
indulge in profanity and kick his camera in the face. Patience won out in
the end, however, as it usually does if a man has enough of it, and the
toads remained still long enough for a fully timed exposure.
One of the problems that Mr. Chace often encounters in his work is that of
backgrounds. Nature protects her children many times by coloring so that in
their natural habitat many of them are difficult to find and when found are
hard to photograph because they blend so well with their surroundings.
Sometimes a gray cloth or some other material can be used to set off the
subject and when this is not feasible the photographer has to devise some
other way to overcome this obstacle.
During the past few months Mr. Chace's pictures have aroused so much
interest that people are beginning to write to him, asking him how he gets
his results. In several cases interested souls have sent him live specimens
they thought he might be interested in.
One lady sent him a bat which arrived in good condition and which he used
successfully in several poses. Another reader sent him a jumping mouse, but
unfortunately this subject yielded up the ghost en route and was in no
condition upon arrival to pose for a picture.
His increasing correspondence and the interest shown in his photographs
convinces Mr. Chace that people are becoming more and more interested in
nature. "And a good thing, too," he says. "I would recommend photography
as a splendid method of studying the denizens of the outdoors. It's fun to
match wits with the elusive creatures of the woods and fields."
This young man who has turned a hobby into a unique career is undoubtedly
correct in his views but the writer is inclined to leave the field to him,
and so, apparently is everyone else. For who among us has the time, and
what is more important, how many have the patience?
__________
Lonnie Chase
chase1858(a)bwn.net
A note from the Chase Chronicles - April 1920
SALMON P. CHASE
A Republican Hero
By Roland Ringwalt
(In the National Republican)
Salmon Portland chase - Born at Cornish, New Hampshire, Jan. 13th, 1808.
Studied at College of Cincinnati; graduated with honors at Dartmouth College
in 1826. Admitted to bar in 1829. Between 1832-35 published edition of the
Statutes of Ohio. Was United States Senator from Ohio, 1849-55; governor of
Ohio, 1856-60; made secretary of the treasury by President Lincoln, 1861-64,
and was originator of treasury notes called "Greenbacks," and of the postal
currency. Was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, 1864-73. Died at New York,
May 7th, 1873.
Something not wholly unlike Sir Walter Scott's narrative of "Redgauntlet"
might be written of Salmon P. Chase. He sacrificed money, he lost friends,
he bore social deprivations, for his anti-slavery convictions, yet if the
anti-slavery men had any honors to give, Salmon P. Chase was on the look-out
for them. No one can over-state the value of his services while in the
Treasury department, nevertheless, if he toiled for the nation until the
small hours, he was quite ready to work at his own presidential boom until
the dawn broke upon him. Even at the head of the Supreme bench ambition was
the breath of his nostrils. No man ever yearned for the presidency more
intensely than Chase, and he died with the longing like that of the camel
that cannot reach the spring, though he travels far through the desert.
With all his selfhood, few would call Chase a selfish man. He was convinced
that he ought to be the head of his party in Ohio and in Washington too. He
had no doubt that he could do more for the slaves than any other man, and he
did do a great deal for them. If he was intensely conscious of his value to
Lincoln, there is no question that he might look along the line of his
predecessors and find no superior except Alexander Hamilton. For a Chief
Justice to push his claims to the presidency as Chase did was amazing, -
granted, but there have been several presidents whose mental powers shrivel
by comparison with those of Salmon P. Chase.
Chase was born among the hills of New Hampshire. Before he was twelve, He
had lost his father, he had gone to a dame school, to a master who started
him in Latin, and to a tutor with whom he began Greek. At that age, his
uncle, Right Reverend Philander Chase took him out to Ohio. The Bishop, in
addition to his ecclesiastical labors, kept a school and managed a farm; he
looked after his nephew's progress in Greek, and saw that the boy had enough
work to keep him out of idleness. As president of Cincinnati College, the
Bishop helped his nephew up the classical ladder. After four years of Ohio
life, Salmon went home, taught school, and managed to win a sheepskin at
Dartmouth College.
Nowadays it is not surprising to hear that a man has studied at Princeton
and Johns Hopkins, finishing his course at Leland Stanford, or that he began
at Harvard to be a senior in the halls of Ann Arbor. But for a youth whose
father died in poverty and whose mother had no wealthy relatives, to obtain
a good school training, to study Greek under a western bishop's eye, and to
attend the college so dear to the heart of Daniel Webster was then something
remarkable. Wherever experience of penury fell to the lot of Chase, he had a
better chance at the ample page of knowledge than he could have expected.
Dartmouth's young graduate opened a school on the banks of the Potomac. Life
in Washington was pleasant to him and he read law in the office of William
Wirt. Chase had not yet thrown his full energies into work, he took his
studies so lightly that he barely managed to pass his examinations, but he
read books of value, he was thoughtful even in his amusements, and it did a
clever stripling from New Hampshire good to learn what a lovable specimen of
the old Southern gentleman could be. A man of a tenth part of Chase's
intellect would have gained a great deal from a man like Wirt, whose daily
talk dropped law, literature, history and courtesy.
In 1830 Chase opened an office in Cincinnati. Bob Sawyer remarked that none
of his patients paid. Salmon P. Chase said that his first client paid him
half a dollar for drawing a deed, and that his next client borrowed the same
and vanished. After the first two years, however, he won his way to a good
practice, he delivered popular lectures, and he collected the statutes of
the Commonwealth. Perhaps a friend put the case fairly well when he said
"Chase was not a great lawyer, but a great man who had a knowledge of law."
There were men far more deeply read in Coke and in the statutes who had not
the intellectual vigor of Chase. He could see the importance of a principle
and make a jury see it. Whether the pigeonholes of his memory were full or
empty, he could reason on his feet. His strong presentments and summaries
might be reproduced in editorials, speeches and sermons. Young men in his
office looked up to him, perhaps, as he had looked up to William Wirt. Of
the students under his care, Stanley Matthews went to the United States
Supreme Court, Groesbeck and Monroe went to Congress, Edward L. Pierce
became the biographer of Charles Sumner, Hoadly and Cox became governors of
Ohio. Northern Ohio was full of anti-slavery men. Southern Ohio was largely
pro-slavery, but there were aggressive men on the other side. Chase was so
active in every movement of an anti-slavery character that he was nicknamed
"the attorney general in the fugitive slave law cases." Ruffians threw
stones at him, and this brought out the high moral courage in his soul.
>From 1841 to 1848 Chase was a storm center, and likewise a shining mark.
Wealthy men boycotted him, and sought to destroy his practice. This reacted,
and in state after state anti-slavery men recognized his strength. In the
courts he argued for his cause; on the platform he presented it; he lent or
gave many a dollar to keep anti-slavery papers afloat.
Under the Constitution, the slave-holder had, as Lincoln acknowledged in his
first inaugural, a claim on the slave who escaped from one state into
another. But it sometimes occurred that a slaveholder would temporarily
reside in a free State. Then how could it be said that his bondmen or
bondwomen escaped from one State into another? Chase pressed this argument
with a force that enraged the entire slave-holding interest, and roused a
vague fear that so resourceful a man would in some way deal the institution
a heavy blow.
On the whole, Chase hoped that the Democrats rather than the whigs would
come to the aid of his cause. Two anti-slavery Democrats managed to bring
about the election as United States Senator Chase, who worked effectively
for himself and who undoubtedly believed that he was the best man for the
place. Have any of those who blamed him for his activity in his own behalf
brought any evidence to show that a better choice could have been made? Not
much could be done in those days to check the onward march of the
pro-slavery hosts, yet the fact that Chase could be elected in Ohio and
Sumner in Massachusetts was ominous. There were men in the South who
recognized the existence of a Northern Democracy that could not be relied
upon, that might break out into another Free Soil revolt. Sumner made the
forecast that Chase would trouble Calhoun.
A term in the Senate convinced Ohio that Chase was growing in strength. His
candidacy for governor proved that he could get Know Nothing votes and yet
hold the Germans. He was a good governor, did his work conscientiously, and
was re-elected. He adhered to his anti-slavery convictions, which
necessarily brought him into collision with the Kentucky authorities, and by
1860 he was a strong candidate for the Republican nominations, for which,
indeed, he had had a fair chance in 1856.
No Idea of the office seeking the man ever lodged in the mind of Salmon P.
Chase. He was elected to the United States Senate for the term beginning
March 4, 1861, and regarded this as a long step toward the White House.
Lincoln's nomination was to him a bitter draught, and he never got over his
disappointment. Though he was a great Secretary of the Treasury, he never
went to his office without considering his chances for the nomination of
1864, and he gave Trowbridge the material which was skillfully worked up
into that entertaining volume, "The Ferry Boy and the Financier." Chase was
too manly to hide his ambition, too convinced of his own merits to care what
anybody else thought of his electioneering; he went ahead, daily proving
himself the best man Lincoln could have placed in the treasury, and openly
writing to friends that he was the strongest man the party could nominate
for the presidency. Had Chase been a monarch, the phrase "by Divine right"
would have been no mere catchword to him. He would have believed with all
his heart and soul that the Almighty had raised up King Salmon as surely as
King Solomon to sit upon his throne. Many men have , in underhanded ways,
sought to climb over the heads of their chiefs, but Salmon P. Chase trained
for 1864 as openly as Jack Dempsey would train for a prize fight. He
believed that he was justified before God and man in so doing. There were
times when the President and the Secretary failed to agree, but Lincoln did
not resent Chase's wish to be the Executive. He was content to win in 1864
as he had done in 1860.
After several resignations which suggested the "positively last appearance"
of an actor, Chase quitted his department, and Taney's death opened the way
to the Chief Justiceship. Once more Chase showed that vigor of mind may
supply, or atone for deficiencies in detail. Men who never rated him among
the profound lawyers of the country knew that here was a reasoner, a man of
power, one fit to preside at the mighty trial in which President Johnson was
defendant . Able and Zealous, yet unable to lay aside the overburdening
sense - not exactly of "I am the state" but "I ought to be the state," Chase
allowed his friends, even during the impeachment of Johnson, to urge his
claims for the presidency. When it became evident that he could not obtain
the Republican nomination he let it be known that he would accept the
Democratic.
It has been indignantly denied that he sought the Democratic nomination, but
the denials must pass for what they are worth. A Chief Justice cannot go
down to the corner grocery and pass around cigars, he cannot go out and play
the fiddle as Bob Taylor did, the forms of office and the decorums of
tradition will not allow the head of the Supreme Court to go forth like Hon.
Samuel Slumskey and kiss all the babies.
But when a man's daughter electioneers for him (and no woman ever worked
more zealously in the political field than did the daughter of Salmon P.
Chase, one infers that the sire was not unwilling. The Democrats did not
nominate the old anti-slavery man and the champion of Negro suffrage; but in
1872 Chase still hoped to be their leader, and had vague hopes of the
Liberal Republican nomination that went to Horace Greeley.
This severance of political ties would have been in most men highly
discreditable; but few will blame Chase for more than an error of judgment.
He trusted in himself so thoroughly, he was so convinced that he ought to be
President that it was to him merely a question which party would recognize
his merit. Lincoln, who can not be said to have liked him, said, "Of all the
great men I have known, Chase is about one and a half bigger than any
other." Never was Chase, in the vulgar sense of the word, a self-seeker - he
merely believed that one of the great parties was bound to seek him."
________________________
Lonnie Chase
chase1858(a)bwn.net
A note from the Chase Chronicles - Jan. 1931
MRS. CHARLES MUNGER CHASE
Regent, Abigail Phillips Quincy Chapter
(Boston Evening Transcript, Dec. 31, 1930)
"For its twentieth anniversary year the Abigail Phillips Quincy Chapter, D.
A. R., of Wollaston, chose as regent a daughter of the American Revolution,
whose early life, as well as her ancestry, had rich Revolutionary and
Colonial associations. Mrs. Chase was born in a house that had been built
for a tavern before the Revolution and was owned by her family for many
years. This house still stands in Machias, Me., and is used as a chapter
house by Hannah Weston Chapter, D. A. R.
Burnham Tavern, as it was known then, served as a haven for wounded soldiers
during the first naval battle of the Revolution, fought at Machias Bay, when
the British ship Margaretta was captured by the American rebels. One of Mrs.
Chase's Revolutionary ancestors fought in this battle. Her
great-great-grandfather, Samuel Watts, was a member of the Great and General
Court in Massachusetts from 1705 to 1709, and his son, Samuel Watts, was a
captain in the French-Colonial War and took part in the siege of Louisburg.
Mrs. Chase has been a daughter of the American Revolution for more than
eighteen years.
The Chapter held its organization meeting, with nineteen members present, in
1910. Mrs. Walter F. Jones, then a member of Susannah Tufts Chapter, was the
founder and first regent. At the recent twentieth anniversary meeting, Mrs.
Jones pointed out that the society has not only grown in numbers, but has a
C. A. R. group, the Hannah Watts Weston Society, founded by Mrs. Chase, and
a daughter chapter, the General Sylvanus Thayer Chapter of Braintree,
founded by Mrs. Harry J. Beck, a former member of the Wollaston Chapter,
thus making Susannah Tufts Chapter a grandmother.
Abigail Phillips Quincy chapter remembers as a highlight in the past twenty
years, the war period, when the members did their share of service work and
took part in the Quincy preparedness parade of 1916. Since the war, the
Chapter has been active in aiding disabled ex-service men and members of
their families from Norfolk County, Greater Boston and various parts of the
State. At Christmas a tree is loaded with gifts for veterans in hospitals.
The Chapter has also been prominent in preserving and marking historic
spots. In 1918 it had a marker placed over the Black's Creek bridge, and in
1920 placed a bronze tablet on the grave of Abigail Phillips Quincy in the
old Quincy burial ground. A tablet commemorating the sixth President of the
United states, John Quincy Adams, was placed in the First Parish Church in
1926 and one of his wife, Louisa C. Adams, in 1928.
The Chapter is also particularly interested in patriotic education, national
defense, student loan and genealogical research. It has a unique distinction
in claiming Mrs. Arthur D. Ropes, president of the Massachusetts
W. C. T. U., as one of its past leaders."
Issue of July 1921
LIEUT. ALBERT E. CHACE
"The subject of this sketch was born in New Bedford, Mass., April 20, 1851,
the son of Ephriam and Sarah Mosher (Read) Chase. He is a direct descendant
in the eight generation from William Chase the Emigrant who came to America
in the fleet with Governor Winthrop and his colony.
>From Fall River Weekly News, Apr. 20, 1921
Lieutenant Albert E. Chase, first appointee to the police department under
the law making the tenure of office permanent, will retire from active duty
on half pay tonight, at evening roll-call when the order terminating his
service of nearly 40 years will be read in all divisions. His police career
since his appointment in 1882, has been varied and full of noteworthy
incidents, Today is his 70th birthday, which he is observing quietly.
After years of service in the central division, to which he was transferred
form the Eastern station, Mr. Chace was designated to take the civil service
examination to promotion to clerk of city marshal, with rank of Lieutenant.
He was appointed to this position on Jan. 24, 1910. He served under Chiefs
of Police Hilliard and Fleet.
For a short time, subsequent to his appointment as clerk to the marshal,
Lieutenant Chace was acting clerk of the second district court. On June 3,
1912, Lieutenant Chace reported to the Northern police station for night
duty. He served at this station eight years, coming to the central station
again on April 29, 1920, when he became day lieutenant attached to the first
division.
Fearless and faithful to duty Lieutenant Chace can tell of many interesting
experiences while a patrolman. For a long period he was assigned to the
so-called Bowery route, when this region was in its prime, and raids were an
every-day occurrence. Thrilling indeed are many of his tales of adventures
in this district. As he was assigned to duty in the Borden murder case,
Lieutenant Chace was a prominent witness at the trial. In consideration of
his ability, he served a score of years as an investigator of claims made
against the city. He saved the municipality many dollars. He was appointed
to this work under City Solicitor James F. Jackson.
For several years after his assignment in 1901, Lieutenant Chace served as
committing officer. This necessarily brought him in contact with many
prisoners. This duty furnished him with much material for stories that are
listened to with much attention. His quick wit, and general aptitude made
him an officer suitable for special work, as a result of which several years
of his duty as patrolman were spent on special duty. His record during that
period is very bright. The last days of his service with the active force
have been spent in civilian dress by Lieutenant Chace, who, completes a
vacation of two weeks this evening. It was his desire to spend 40 years of
his life as a member the police department, but under the law his retirement
was obligatory as he became 70 years of age today.
Since being crushed by a falling fence on North Main street a few years ago,
Lieutenant Chace has not been in the best of health, although he has been an
active officer, capable of performing the duties required of him. Lieutenant
Chace is a man universally admired and liked by all members of the
department. He has met many newspaper men and is well remembered by all of
them.
he order announcing his retirement follows:
General Order No. 8:
It appearing that Lieutenant Albert E. Chace has reached the age of 70 years
and that he has performed faithful and creditable service in the department
for almost 40 years, it was voted that Lieutenant Albert E. Chace be retired
from active service in the police department of the city of Fall River; that
his name be placed upon a pension roll, and that he be allowed the sum of
one thousand and seventy-five dollars ($1075) per annum to be paid weekly,
said sum being one-half the compensation received by him in the office from
which he is retired, to take effect Wednesday, April 20, at 8 o'clock a.m.
Lieutenant Albert E. Chace was the first appointee under the law making the
tenure of office of policemen of the city of Fall River permanent, being
appointed by the Hon. Henry K. Braley, Mayor of the city, now associate
justice of the supreme court of this commonwealth. Lieutenant Chace has
served the city faithfully, rising to the rank of Lieutenant in the
department."
Lonnie Chase
chase1858(a)bwn.net
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Your help would be appreciated.
Many thanks
Charles Desmond Ellis Chase (7th)
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Sandy Chase (Buffalo, NY)
A note from the Chase Chronicles - April 1915
INTERESTING LETTER FROM NEW HAMPSHIRE
"Dr. Walter G. Chase, Editor,
Quarterly Journal of Chase Family.
Dear Doctor: - Your invitation to write something for the January number of
the Journal moves me to send you the following:
Illustrating once more the tendency to return to somewhat the same
environment as one's ancestors had, the writer, now in his sixth decade, has
recently left the familiar scenes of his previous years, namely, a favored
suburb of Boston, and is making his home in the beautiful and healthful but
remote and rugged country in which his great-grandfather, Isaac Chase,
settled at the close of the Revolution.
On the farm that we have bought and on which we are working, there is a big
hill or little mountain, about 2,500 feet high, known as Prentice Hill. The
view from the bare and rocky summit of this natural outlook tower always
gives me a great and peculiar satisfaction, and this is the reason.
As I look off to the west, there spreads out before me, the great range of
the Green Mountains of Vermont, mostly blue or purple at this distance, the
nearest perhaps fifteen miles away, and extending well to the north and
south, while to the west they reach back in successive rows to the far
distant horizon. Beautiful and inspiring as the view alone is, at every time
of the day and year, its chief interest, for me. is something else, namely,
that from this vantage point of our present home, I can look out upon the
old homes of five sons of the chase family, who lived exceptionally noble,
public spirited lives, full of hardship and toil, and at times of danger and
poverty.
Just across a forest- covered valley, about two miles away, stands a long
wooded hill, nearly as high as Prentice Hill, and known as Chase Hill. On
this hill, very near its top, once lived Samuel Chase, to whom with seventy
associates, Governor Wentworth, in 1763, issued a charter granting the
township of Alstead with its 24,760 acres.
At the first proprietors' meeting, Samuel Chase was chosen moderator; and
for many years he continued to be a leading citizen of the state. The
houses, or rather the cabins, of these first settlers were built on top of
the hills, as a rule, in order more easily to "stand off" the attacks of the
Indians, who, in this part of the country, were hostile at first, but later
they became Christianized and sent many of their most promising young braves
to Dartmouth College, which was founded at Hanover, N. H., partly for their
benefit. Except for the cellar holes of some of humble little homes, and a
few apple trees, descendants of those set out by the early settlers, no
traces of human habitations can now be found, and the hills are once more
occupied by the forest, the deer and other animals, wild and tame.
Looking beyond Chase Hill, and further toward the north, I always thrill
with joy as I see beautiful Mt. Ascutney looming up in the distance,
considerably separated from the other mountains and hills about it. This
stately representative of the real giants of the Green Mountain State has
its special interest, for me, in the fact that at its foot, almost, just
across the Connecticut River, lies the town of Cornish, N. H., the
birthplace and early home of Philander Chase, a distinguished missionary
bishop of the Episcopal Church and founder of Kenyan and other colleges. He
is of interest also to more than our family as the uncle and patron of
Salmon Portland Chase, also a native of Cornish, whose services as secretary
of the treasury, Abraham Lincoln declared were invaluable to our nation in
its time of greatest need.
As you probably know, Uncle Philander helped Salmon get his education,
invited him out to his home in Ohio, and in due time the boy became a
lawyer, then a United States senator from Ohio, 1849-55; Governor of Ohio,
1856-60; Secretary of the Treasury, 1861-64, and chief Justice of the
Supreme Court, 1864-73. inspiring thoughts come to me as I look across to
the old homes of these three leaders and friends of men; but first and last,
when I visit our hill, I look far away to the western horizon for the most
beautiful and most striking feature of the whole landscape, and what I see
then is Mt. Stratton, over 400 (?) feet high, and some 30 or 40 miles away.
Its magnificent great outline, seen from the east, closely simulates a type
of mountain I have seen in Arizona and elsewhere in the far west, and is
there known as a butte, but Mt. Stratton with a gentle depression in the
middle of its broad summit, and a sort of shoulder running out toward the
south, seems to me truly unique. At the foot of this superb mountain, and on
the side toward me, is where my great-grandfather, Isaac Chase, built his
cabin, one of the very first in that remote part of Vermont. Naturally I
have made a pilgrimage to this mountain, and to the region about it. Guided
by a man from the lumber camp at the base we climbed to the top, walked an
hour along its forest covered ridge, and at the highest point, we climbed a
couple of trees from which we got a view not soon to be forgotten.
Mr. John Ritchie Jr., informs me that last summer, an iron watch tower, of
spider web design and sixty feet high, was erected on Mt. Stratton for
protection against forest fires; it will be an additional attraction, I am
sure, to anyone contemplating a visit there. Though the aged town clerk of
Stratton showed me on the ancient town map the location of my ancestor's
cabin, my guide and I could find no trace of it; but such an experience, he
told me, was not uncommon.
Isaac Chase had joined the Revolutionary army as a boy of 16 at the outbreak
of the war, had served faithfully and well, and near its close was wounded
by bayonets and taken prisoner. Released when the war was over, he soon went
with a few other young men from his Massachusetts home, to win a farm and a
home in the wilderness of Vermont, by that time free from hostile Indians.
There he prospered as a farmer, brought up a large family of children, and
also became deeply interested in religion and in education. His favorite
verse of Scripture was Micah, VI, I, which I am sure characterized his life.
One of his sons, Irah, my grandfather, born in Stratton, was an unusually
thoughtful, scholarly youth. While a student, he went with his father to
Lake Champlain to witness the naval battle, there, and later visited and
assisted the wounded of both sides. In a letter he wrote: "When we arrived
at the place where the wounded and the dead had been taken, we found the
American and the British Commanders walking arm in arm, between the rows of
the victims, and conversing earnestly together. Their wounded men also lay
together, side by side, talking together. Father asked one of the men how
they felt toward each other, and he said, 'Oh, we are all brothers now!"
He graduated from Middlebury College, Vermont, in 1814, taking the four
years course in three, and after graduating from Andover Theological
Seminary served some time as a home missionary or circuit riding preacher in
Virginia. A little later he studied at Halle, Germany, and elsewhere, and
was a professor in two or three theological schools, for his heart's desire
was to see a more enlightened ministry.
The crowning work of his useful career was the founding of the courses of
study at the Newton (Mass.) Baptist Theological Seminary of which he was the
head and heart for many years till he retired from active duties. When a
little boy I had the privilege of knowing Grandfather Irah Chase, for he
spent his last years at my father's house, and we often sat together at
table.
These Mr. Editor, are some of the precious memories awakened in me by the
view from our hill, a hill that you really must visit with me.
A word more and I will close these rambling remarks.
The fine little legend on our family coat of arms is, as you know, "Ne cede
malis"* but Grandfather Irah Chase, when a student in Germany, the Germany
of Goethe's time, learned much of the great poet's best thoughts, and, while
he lived true to our Latin Legend, just quoted, one of Goethe's immortal
sayings was also ever present in his mind, and soul, as it must have been,
in its essence, at least, in each of those other true sons of our family
whom I have mentioned. That watchword of Goethe which grandfather brought
home with him, and with which I will close was this: -
+ "Edel sei der Mensch,
Hilfreich und gut!"
* Yield not to evil (or, to difficulties).
+ Let a man be noble, helpful and good!
Sincerely yours, Heman Lincoln Chase
East Alstead, N. H, December 1, 1914
Lonnie Chase
chase1858(a)bwn.net
A note from the Chase Chronicles - Apr. 1915
CAPTAIN STEPHEN CHASE
"Captain Stephen Chase was district manager of the Booth Fisheries Company,
and president of the American Pneumatic Carpet Cleaning Company. He came to
Cincinnati, from Baltimore, Maryland, in September, 1878. He was born in the
latter city January 11, 1845. His father Stephen Chase, was shipmaster of a
large packet running between New Orleans, Havre, France, and Liverpool.
Captain Chase spent his early days on the ship and was educated with his
elder sister by his father. The family sailed with the husband and father
from the babyhood of Captain Chase, until the father's death. He was never
six months in one place during that time, although the family always
maintained a home in Baltimore. Maryland, and as soon as the ship reached
the United States the children were sent to that city and placed in school.
Captain Chase, has visited all parts of the world save Australia. During the
Civil War the family was in the East Indies and there his father died at sea
in 1863. The son and namesake, then, but eighteen years of age, succeeded
his father as captain of the "Wurtemberg." The father's death occurred while
the ship was in the Gulf of Martaban, in British Burma, and one morning
about one-thirty, a.m., assisted by the officers of his ship and of the ship
"St. Louis," placed his father's body on board the "St. Louis," and then
shipped it to Boston, whence it was sent to Baltimore, where interment was
made fourteen months after his death.
Captain Stephen Chase Jr., made several voyages to Chine, Calcutta, Bombay,
India, and other parts in the Orient, and continued on the seas until 1867,
when he returned to Baltimore which he always regarded as his home. There he
entered the oyster business and also dealt in canned and foreign fruits
extensively for eleven years and then came to Cincinnati in 1878. Here he
formed a partnership with H. P. Hemmingway & Company and later purchased the
interest of the other members of the firm and organized the Cincinnati
Oyster and Fish Company, establishing branches in Louisville, Nashville,
Memphis, and Chattanooga. He likewise owned oyster beds at West Point,
Virginia.
He conducted the business successfully for a long period, or until 1898,
when he sold out to A. Booth & Co. Which in 1908 was succeeded by the Booth
Fishery Company, and Captain Chase became district manager, from which
office he resigned
July 1914.
In the long years of his connection with business interests of Cincinnati,
Captain Chase always enjoyed the confidence and good will of his fellowmen,
and was always recognized as a leading business man of this city.
On October 31, 1914, he had a stroke of apoplexy and died on November 1,
1914. Captain Chase is survived by a widow, Mrs. Caroline N. Chase, five
daughters, Miss Dora Chase, Mrs. O. F. Holstein, Mrs. G. F. Christians,
Mrs. G. F. Carter, Mrs. J. E. Collins Jr., and a son Stephen Chase IV.
Captain Chase was a generous friend of the chronicle, paying for several
subscriptions other than his own. - Ed."
Lonnie Chase
chase1858(a)bwn.net
A note from the Chase Chronicles - Apr. 1926
Spelling and punctuation belong to the original composer!
JARED BOURN AND THE "LIBERTY TREE"
"Jared Bourn was admitted to the church in Boston, Mass., April 22nd, 1634
and a freeman May 6th, 1635.
Dec. 18th, 1637 there was a grant to him of eight acres of land in Boston,
and that he bought or had grants of other parcels of land is evident from
recorded deeds. In 1654, Feb. 13th, he removed to Rhode Island. In 1664 he
sold land at Cambridge and in 1665 the land in Boston.
The picture of "Liberty Tree" is found in "The Memorial History of Boston."
Here within the house yard of Garret or Jared Bourn stood the "Liberty Tree"
which is said to have been planted in 1646 and became famous in the Stamp
Act times. It was cut down in 1775 during the siege of Boston, probably for
firewood which was exceedingly scarce, amid the jibes and taunts of the
soldiers and Tories, by a party led by Job Williams, and it made fourteen
cords of wood. A British soldier was killed while trying to remove one of
the limbs.
There was a soliloquy in verse published in the Mass., Gazette, Jan. 2nd,
1776 which gives the Tory view of the case. It is reprinted in Mass. Hist.
Soc. Proc. March 1876 - p. 270
The tree stood at the southeast corner of Washington and Essex Streets.
Lafayette said when in Boston: "The world should never forget the spot where
once stood "Liberty Tree," so famous in your annals." It has been the care
of David Sears that this injunction should not fall to the ground unheeded
as in the wall of the building on its site we see a handsome freestone
bas-relief representing a tree with wide spreading branches. This memorial
is placed directly over the spot where stood the famous" Liberty Tree." An
inscription informs us that it commemorates:
Liberty 1776
Law and Order
Sons of Liberty 1776
It was called Liberty Tree from its being used on the first occasion of
resistance to the obnoxious Stamp Act, August 14, 1765. An effigy of Mr.
Oliver, Stamp Officer, and a boot with the devil peeping out of it (Lord
Bute) were discovered hanging there. A pole fastened to the tree, and the
remnants of the flag used in 1775 are said to be owned by H. C. Fernald and
to have been exhibited in the Old South Loan collection.
On the stump which remained a Liberty pole was erected after the war and
this was replaced by another, July 2nd 1826. In 1833 Liberty Tree Tavern
stood upon the spot. Tudor's Otis p. 221
As "Liberty Tree is said to have been planted in 1646, nine years after the
land was granted to Jared Bourn, and as it stood in the house yard, surely
it must have been planted by the owner himself or through his orders.
Note: The name Orange St. must have been changed to Washington."
Esther Bashford
THE BOURN GARRISON HOUSE IN KING PHILIP'S WAR
"Jared Bourn was admitted to be a resident of Portsmouth, R. I. in about
1655. He continued to reside there until after 1667, for on the 30th of
October in that year he was a deputy in the General Assembly (Legislature)
of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations as appears from the
Rhode Island Colonial Records, Volume 2, page 220.
At the time of the breaking out of King Philip's War in 1775, he was living
in a stone garrison house, in Mattapoisett, now Gardner's Neck in Swanzy,
Mass. After the commencement of hostilities the colonists from the
surrounding country fled with their families to Bourn's Garrison, as it was
called, for refuge. Here they were besieged by the Indians until relieved by
the troops which Massachusetts hurried to their relief.
In about 1905 or 1910 the site of this Garrison House was marked by a large
quartz boulder which historical societies of Massachusetts and Rhode Island
joined in dedicating with appropriate ceremonies in the presence of a large
number of the people of Swanzy and the neighborhood.
There is no record of the death of Jared Bourn. He was probably living in
1681, as among the names of a coroner's jury August 2nd, 1681 was Jarrett
Bourne, Jr.
Lonnie Chase
chase1858(a)bwn.net
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I am looking for information on Madison CHASE, b. 19Feb1829 in Rutland,
Meigs Co, OH. He was the oldest son of Abel,Jr. and Esther (NOBLES) CHASE.
His father, Abel,Jr, died in 1848. Madison is listed in the 1850 census as
living with his mother and 4 brothers. He was listed as being 21. He is not
listed in the 1860 Meigs Co census. I have not found any reference to him
after 1850 in surrounding counties, nor record of his death, or marriage.
Any leads as to where he might have gone after 1850 would be greatly
appreciated.
Sue Ed
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Lonnie,
I'm finally back to you again.
Did you ever get an answer concerning which Chase---was connected to the
Boston Tea Party?
(connecting to Aquila or William)?
Ginger
Thank you to all who answered my query re Owen CHASE. Yes,
I did enjoy very much Nathaniel Philbrick's book "In the
Heart of the Sea", though it is grim. The history and
social mores of the time, place, and whaling are very well delineated.
Regards,
Ed in CA
descendant of Maria Elizabeth CHASE b 8/20/1810 Martha's Vineyard
daughter of Benjamin CHASE b 3/6/1788 Martha's Vineyard and
Alice Fasset SPA(U)LDING b 2/29/1788 Tisbury, Dukes, MA or
Brooklin, CT
What has happen to all the CHASES,
that wanted to have a NAT'L REUNION
that took in the roots of CHASES from
the east coast. To see and meet CHASES
from the east, and travel to the NEW ENGLAND
STATES, see places and cemeteries of our forefathers.
Who is going to put this together for us in the year 2002?
There is a lot to do, and to get ready for. It will take
time
to put all of this in place. This reunion will not be in one
place.
Time,travel, places to stay, and etc., will be of the
upmost.
Is there anyone, out there who will be head of all of this?
Will Chase.
Seeking information on George Sumner CHASE, born Grand Forks, North
Dakota ca 1865, died Saskatoon, Sask. Oct. 27, 1947. Married Susan
Alice JACOB at Smiths Falls, Ontario December 16, 1890. Children:
Forrest Jacob; Howard Francis; Marguerite; Mary Anne Alice; Doris
Mildred; Almond Eugene, and Albert Eugene CHASE.
Bill Elliott, Edmonton, AB
Owen was the son of JUDAH CHASE and Phoebe Meader.
Judah (b. 26 Mar 1765) was the son of ARCHELUS and his first cousin, once
removed DESIRE CHASE.
ARCHELUS (b. 17 May 1740) was the son of Rev. RICHARD Chase and Thankful
Berry.
The Rev. RICHARD (b. 3 Mar 1714/15) was the son of THOMAS Chase and Sarah
Gowell.
THOMAS (b. 20 Aug 1679) was the son of JOHN Chase and Elizabeth Baker.
JOHN (b. 6 Apr 1649) was the son of WILLIAM Chase and _______.
WILLIAM Chase was the son of WILLIAM Chase the Immigrant and Mary_______.
DESIRE Chase (b. 6 Mar 1741/2), grandmother to Owen, was the daughter of
Isaac and Charity (Pease) (O'Kelly) Chase.
ISAAC was the son of John Chase and Elizabeth Baker (see above).
There has been some discussion that Judah may have been illegitimate which
is why the family moved to Nantucket. (Because this is in the depths of my
hazy memory, perhaps someone else can speak more authoritatively on that
matter.)
Judy
(also in CA - and third cousin, four times removed to Owen)
-----Original Message-----
From: E B Herron [SMTP:ebherron@home.com]
Sent: Friday, August 18, 2000 9:02 AM
To: CHASE-L(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: [CHASE-L] Owen CHASE
How does Owen CHASE of the Whaleship Essex - "In the Heart
of the Sea" by Nathaniel Philbrick - fit into the Chase lineage.
Ed in CA
Hello,
I am looking for the son of Lydia CHASE (her maiden name.) She had this
child around 1963 in Cook County, IL. He is my half-brother and I would like
to find him or his mother....
Any help greatly appreciated!
Roberta in Vancouver, WA