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Marvan b 29 may 1962 in Valdez Alaska married 21 march 1987 in Anchorage
to Julie Lynette BLATCHFORD b 14 jan 1966 in Portland Oregon.
keep on-keeping on-never quit. Roger
http://community.webtv.net/zgordo/GORDOSGENEALOGY
http://www.the-scientist.com/news/20030820/03
Martha Chase dies
With Alfred D. Hershey, she established DNA as the genetic material
By Milly Dawson
Martha Chase, renowned for her part in the pivotal "blender experiment,"
which firmly established DNA as the substance that transmits genetic
information, died of pneumonia on August 8 in Lorain, Ohio. She was 75.
In 1952, Chase participated in what came to be known as the Hershey-Chase
experiment in her capacity as a laboratory assistant to Alfred D. Hershey.
He won a Nobel Prize for his insights into the nature of viruses in 1969,
along with Max Delbrück and Salvador Luria.
Peter Sherwood, a spokesman for Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, where the
work took place, described the Hershey-Chase study as "one of the most
simple and elegant experiments in the early days of the emerging field of
molecular biology."
"Her name would always be associated with that experiment, so she is some
sort of monument," said her longtime friend Waclaw Szybalski, who met her
when he joined Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in 1951 and who is now a
professor of oncology at the University of WisconsinMadison.
Szybalski attended the first staff presentation of the Hershey-Chase
experiment and was so impressed that he invited Chase for dinner and dancing
the same evening. "I had an impression that she did not realize what an
important piece of work that she did, but I think that I convinced her that
evening," he said. "Before, she was thinking that she was just an underpaid
technician."
In fact, said Szybalski, "Experimentally, she contributed very much. The
laboratory of Alfred Hershey was very unusual. At that time there were just
the two of them, and when you entered the laboratory there was absolute
silence and just Al directing the experiments by pointing with his finger to
Martha, always with a minimum of words. She was perfectly fitted to work
with Hershey."
Martha Chase went to work in Hershey's lab at Cold Spring Harbor in 1950,
having recently graduated from the College of Wooster in Ohio. In the early
1950s, research on bacteriophagesprotein-shrouded DNA viruses that infect
bacterialaid the foundation for the field of molecular biology. Leading
researchers believed that by studying how a single "phage" multiplies within
a host bacterium, they were essentially studying stripped-down genes in
action.
A key question revolved around which element of the bacteriophage conveyed
the genetic informationthe protein coat or the DNA within. An experiment
done at the Rockefeller Institute in 1944 by Avery, MacLeod, and McCarty had
pointed to DNA, but it was the Hershey-Chase experiment that helped to
convince the world.
Hershey and Chase added marked bacteriophages to a fresh bacterial culture,
allowing the phages to infect the bacteria by injecting their genetic
material into the host cell. But then at the crucial moment, they whirled
the bacteria in a Waring Blendor, which Hershey had determined produced just
the right shearing force to tear the phage particles from the bacterial
walls without rupturing the bacteria. Upon examining the bacteria, Hershey
and Chase found that only phage DNA, and no detectable protein, had been
inserted into the bacteria, confirming the 1944 findings of Avery's group.
Norton Zinder, a professor of molecular genetics at Rockefeller University,
has noted that this experiment "supported the role of DNA [as opposed to
protein] and helped to stimulate Watson and Crick to go on to reveal the
structure" of DNA. James Watson said as much himself in a 1997 memoriam,
writing that "the Hershey-Chase experiment had a much broader impact than
most confirmatory announcements and made me ever more certain that finding
the three-dimensional structure of DNA was biology's next important
objective. The finding of the double helix by Francis Crick and me came only
11 months after my receipt of a long Hershey letter describing his blender
experiment results."
In 1953, Martha Chase left Cold Spring Harbor to work first at the Oak Ridge
National Laboratory and then at the University of Rochester. Each summer,
though, she returned to Cold Spring Harbor for annual gatherings of the
highly respected Phage Group. In 1959, she began work on her PhD at the
University of Southern California, earning the degree in 1964. In the late
1950s in California, she had met and married a fellow scientist, Richard
Epstein, but they soon divorced.
Chase suffered several other personal setbacks, including a job loss, in the
late 1960s, a period that saw the end of her scientific career. Later, she
experienced decades of dementia, with long-term but no short-term memory.
Szybalski remembered his friend as "a remarkable but tragic person."
Chase, who was born and raised in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, is survived by
her sister Ruth Daziel of Milford, Conn. Martha Chase liked to travel and
visited many of the national parks, Daziel recalled. "She especially loved
going out in the desert after a rain when the flowers were blooming." Chase
also enjoyed photography, sewing, and knitting. "The harder the pattern the
better she liked it," said Daziel. "All the fancy knitting stitches, like
those for argyle socks, were self-taught. She was always interested in
anything that was a challenge."
Links for this article
Diagram of Hershey-Chase blender experiment
http://osulibrary.orst.edu/specialcollections/coll/pauling/dna/pictures/hers
heychase-experiment.html
Martha Chase
http://osulibrary.orst.edu/specialcollections/coll/pauling/dna/people/chase.
html
Alfred D. Hershey http://www.cshl.edu/History/hershey.html
R.E. Peterson, "Al's pals reminisce," American Scientist, JanuaryFebruary
2001.
http://www.americanscientist.org/template/BookReviewTypeDetail/assetid/14294
;jsessionid=aaa6YOeEW208kv
Can Matter Store Active Information? Landmarks in the History of Genetics
http://cogweb.ucla.edu/ep/DNA_history.html
Oswald Avery
http://osulibrary.orst.edu/specialcollections/coll/pauling/dna/people/avery.
html
J.D. Watson, "Alfred Day Hershey 19081997," Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Annual Report 1997, November 10, 1997.
http://www.cshl.edu/AnnualReport/hershey.html
All,
I am a new subscriber.
I need any information relating to Joseph P. CHASE b. abt 1792 NH, who m. Sabrina M. UNKNOWN, and had the following children: Samuel M. b. abt 1826 NH, Israel M. b. Abt 1829 NH, dorothy M. b. Abt 1831 NH and Frank P. CHASE b. abt 1831 NH. Joseph P. CHASE was a resident of Sutton, Merrimack Co, NH.
Frank P. CHASE b. Abt 1831 NH, m. Addie E. UNKNOWN and they had at least one son, George W. CHASE b. Oct 1871 in NH. Frank P. CHASE was a resident of first Sutton, and then Danbury, NH.
George W. CHASE b. Oct 1871 NH m. Delette L. UNKNOWN. Abt 1896. they had two children: a daughter Marion A. CHASE b. Dec 1899 and a son Kendrick F. CHASE b. abt 1903. Marion A. CHASE m. Walter Philip JACKMAN Abt 1921.
Any information would be appreciated, and I will share everything that I have.
v/r,
Beverly Alexander
Culpeper, VA
I hear ethereal voices, persuasive, soft and still
Daughter, if you don't remember us, who will?
alexlary(a)crosslink.net
Ruth,
There was a replica made of the Arbella in 1930 and you can see a photo of
it here
http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/mhr/6/images/bremer_fig12b.jpg
You should checkout www.winthropsociety.org Here is what they have to say:
*FAQ:* Was my ancestor aboard the *Arbella?*
*ANSWER:* From Winthrop's journal<http://www.winthropsociety.org/journal.php>,
we know only that Gov. John Winthrop and Rev. George Phillips took passage
aboard the *Arbella*. By other reliable sources, we think Sir Richard
Saltonstall, William Hathorne, Rev. John Wilson and their families, and
probably Increase Nowell and Thomas Dudley crossed the Atlantic in the *
Arbella* as well. All who came with the fleet of 1630 are equally honored by
the Winthrop Society.
There is no indication that William and Mary Chase and their son were on the
Arbella, only that they were with the fleet - there were other ships.
I was just in Plymouth, Mass, and toured the replica of the Mayflower and I
have some photos of it if you would like them. It is typical of the ships
of that era.
Cheers,
Jeffrey Chace
On 11/22/05, Ruth <abner10(a)alltel.net> wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> I wonder if anyone out there would know if there is a picture of the
> Arabella that came over from England in 1630 out there somewhere so I could
> copy it for my scrapbook.
>
> I am correct that William did come over on that ship, right?
>
> You folks have been such a great help to me. I wish that I knew half of
> what you all do so that I could be a help to someone else. You are the
> greatest group of people around.
>
> Fondly, Ruth Hill in FL
> (where we expect a frost tonight!!?)
>
>
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Jeffrey Chace
http://www.chace.demon.nl
Hello all,
I wonder if anyone out there would know if there is a picture of the Arabella that came over from England in 1630 out there somewhere so I could copy it for my scrapbook.
I am correct that William did come over on that ship, right?
You folks have been such a great help to me. I wish that I knew half of what you all do so that I could be a help to someone else. You are the greatest group of people around.
Fondly, Ruth Hill in FL
(where we expect a frost tonight!!?)
Hello, if Martha Story Foisy is still a member of this list, would you mind
contacting me at my email address? I have a very interesting story for you.
Cheers,
Jeffrey Chace
j.b.chace(a)amaze.nl
--
Jeffrey Chace
http://www.chace.demon.nl
Hello All,
I mentioned a while back that I had found out while reading the Quaker
Records of Swansea that Oliver Chace Sr, Oliver Chace Jr, and Palmer Chace,
(and I can now add Miller Chace as well as others) were all denied their
membership in the Swansea Society of Friends December 30th of 1824. I posted
a message here asking if anyone could shed light on the reason why this may
have occurred. Well, I found some other records from the Swansea Monthly
Meeting at the Rhode Island Historical Society which had a matrix of many of
the members and showed the Olivers, Palmer, and Miller as having been
"Seperatists" [sic] and that their membership was denied them. The term
"Seperatist" as well as the date indicate that the members who were disowned
adhered to the beliefs of the Wilburites while the largest part of the
American Quakers became Gurneyites and were part of the bitter split in the
New England Yearly Meeting of 1844/1845. Mystery solved.
Cheers,
Jeffrey
--
Jeffrey Chace
http://www.chace.demon.nl
Hello All,
I was wondering if anyone knows about the Last Will and Testament of William
Chase, the Younger, who died 27 February 1684/5 in Yarmouth?
Cheers,
Jeffrey Chace
--
Jeffrey Chace
http://www.chace.demon.nl
I just posted a BLOG that will help people looking for old books,
either to purchase or read on-line. http://ny-genes.blogspot.com/
While you are at it check out my website for Upstate New York
Genealogy. www.ny-genes.com
Dick Hillenbrand
Hello All,
Here is a narrative I wrote about an investigatory journey I took to
Oskaloosa, Iowa, earlier this year to verify some facts about the Chace
Family's presence there in the mid-1800s. My trip was very rewarding and I
was able to discover some surprising material that I had not anticipated.
Anyone who has ever thought that genealogy consists of a boring set of
birthdates and deathdates has never had such an exhilarating experience as I
encountered while doing research in Oskaloosa. Getting my hands dirty in a
cemetery stood as the pinnacle of an awesomely rewarding trip.
Cheers,
Jeffrey Chace
--
Jeffrey Chace
http://www.chace.demon.nl
Our family records traditionally show that Burgess Thomas Chace, who was
born 22 July 1785 in Swansea, Massachusetts, died 6 September 1858 and was
buried in Providence, Rhode Island, but I have had a bit of trouble tracking
down his grave there. Little did I suspect that I would discover he wasn't
where we always thought he was.
I had known for quite some time, having heard stories from my Grandfather,
that the Chaces had lived in Oskaloosa, Iowa, before heading southwest from
there and ending up in Shawnee, Kansas. Once, about 15 years ago, I had
stopped through Oskaloosa naively believing that I would be able to find
some information about the Chaces. However, not really knowing anything
about the nature of our family, I had not a clue as where to begin. To my
credit, I at least had enough sense to go to the library there. The
Librarian suggested that I look at old newspapers, but having only a vague
idea about the timeframe in which the Chaces had lived in Oskaloosa, I had
no idea where to begin. I asked for the Oskaloosa newspapers from the late
1800s. The Librarian helped me with microfilm from 1898. Although there were
entertaining articles about what would occur at the end of the century and
how the world may be coming to and end, and advertisements touting the
benefits of electro-shock treatments, I could find nothing of the Chaces. And,
no wonder, considering that I now know they had largely immigrated to Iowa
from Rhode Island in 1852 and all had emigrated to Shawnee, Kansas, by
1863! Furthermore,
the fact that they were Quakers would typically have precluded any mention
of them in the newspapers.
Well, having spent the last five years studying the history of our family
in depth and laying the foundation for proper research, I headed back to
Oskaloosa in August of this year. Armed with local contact information for
the Mahaska County Genealogical Society and again for the Public Library, I
ventured into town. Finding the Genealogical Society, I entered, was greeted
by Mabel, and paid my four dollar usage fee. I quickly discerned that most
of the information in their library would be of little use in my peculiar
pursuits, but I did find two pieces of information of importance – The 1856
Mahaska County Census and the WPA Iowa Cemetery listing. In the Census
records as spelled by the recorder, I found many familiar Chases. Alonzo -
age 40, Amasa - age 33, Lydia M age - 32, Phebe M - age 6, Henry V - age 4,
Burges T - age 70, Burges - age 40, Edward - age 15, Joseph B - age 28,
Amanda M - age 20, and Alice E - age 0. Whoops, there's Burgess Thomas Chace
at age 70 happily nestled in amongst his progeny when he was supposed to
have lived out his life and to have died in Providence. Hmmmmm. Next, I
examined the WPA Iowa Cemetery listing. Lo and behold, again I found
Burgess. But this time listed as Burgess I. Chase. According to the WPA
record, Burgess was buried in Lincoln Township in the Center Grove Cemetery. I
asked Mabel if she was familiar with the cemetery and indeed she was. However,
she warned me that half of the cemetery was gone, a victim of the
construction of 63 Highway. And, the WPA list showed Burgess's headstone as
"broken." But, who knew? Perhaps he was still there. Mabel gave me
directions to find the cemetery and off I went. But first a stop at the
library before it closed.
Walking into the Oskaloosa Public Library, I had a vague memory of the
building from 15 years prior. However, it had been refurbished and was now a
fine, modern library in stark contrast to the drab, dungeon-like experience
I had previously encountered so many years before. Furthermore, the
Genealogy section had been recently moved to its own room in the library on
the main floor and was quite expansive. In Lydia Meader Chace's
autobiography, she states that the family had been members of the Spring
Creek Monthly Meeting and the Pleasant Plain Quarterly Meeting, so this time
I came with a printout of card catalog record showing the Spring Creek
Monthly Meeting Minutes contained on Microfilm. Loading the film, I begin my
perusal of the Quaker Meeting Minutes of Spring Creek. Slowly, page after
page, the dates kept climbing and no Chaces were found. Into 1866, I decided
to stop as I knew that the Chaces had long since removed to Shawnee by this
time. A bit deflated at yet another defeat at the Oskaloosa Public Library,
I went to return the microfilm to its proper location. I had been so sure
that I would find them this time. I had prepared. I had corroborating
material pointing me in exactly the right direction. And yet, no, it seemed
not to be. Placing the microfilm amongst the other rolls, I happened to
notice a roll entitled "Center Grove Preparative Meeting of Friends" and
having seen the WPA listing for Burgess Thomas Chace in Center Grove
Cemetery, I figured I would give the roll a look.
Within a couple of minutes of loading the roll and beginning my perusal I
discovered recorded on 1st Mo. 3rd 1861, "The Overseers informed that Elijah
Chace has accomplished his marriage contrary to our Discipline which
information is forwarded to the Mo. Meeting." Oh my, now this was
interesting. Elijah Chace was the son of Thomas Chace Sr., who was the
eldest son of Burgess Thomas Chace. Little had I known that Elijah, the
Quaker man who had built such a beautiful house in Prairie Village, Kansas,
and who had worked so diligently at the Quaker Indian Mission in Shawnee
teaching the Shawnee Indian boys farming, had fallen afoul of the discipline
of the Monthly Meeting. Had he eventually been disowned as so many other
Quakers had who had married against the advice of the Friends Meeting as
Elijah's uncle Ezra Cornell had? Further investigation is definitely
warranted. Why had Abigail, Elijah's wife, not been an appropriate bride for
him in the opinion of the Quakers? Abigail was also Quaker. And I have
evidence that her parents, Levi Ellis and Sarah Frazer were married at
Newbery Friends meeting in Indiana in 1830. Perhaps they were
Hicksites? Orthodox
Quakers considered Hicksites, a sect of the Society of Friends, to be
heretical since they denied the divinity of Christ. I was intrigued by this
morsel of information in the Cedar Grove Preparative Meeting Minutes. What
else would I find? It didn't take long to discover another interesting
entry. A few pages later was listed: "At Center Grove Prep. Meeting of Frds
held 7 Mo. 4th 1861 … Also that Joseph B. Chase has neglected the attendance
of our meetings & has joined the Methodist Society, which information the
clerk is directed to forward to the Monthly Meeting." What? What was going
on here? A virtual melt-down of the Quaker Meeting with regard to the
Chaces. Two Disciplinary Cases within 6 months! Further, in the meeting
minutes of 8 Mo. 1861, "Amos Hiatt, Wm P. Picknell, David Wilson & Amasa
Chace are appointed to set a value on the stone on our meeting house lot, &
dispose of them if opportunity offers & report to next meeting." Phew! At
least Amasa was staying out of trouble. Finally, the last record I could
find of the Chaces in the Center Grove Preparative Meeting Minutes was "A
List of Apportionment for the Members of the Center Grove Preparative
Meeting" which listed Amasa, Alonzo, Edward, Elijah and Burgess (son of Burgess
Thomas Chace). I found no further record of the Chaces in the Meeting
Minutes except more mention of Amasa diligently working to get rid of the
stone on the meeting house lot. The few entries I had found were quite
provocative – better than advertisements for electro-shock therapy, and
certainly shocking.
I left the Library after having been there a couple of hours and travelled
just north of the Oskaloosa town center on 63 highway. As Mabel had
instructed me, I passed William Penn University, and immediately past the
University on the left-hand (west) side of the highway appeared a cemetery –
quite large with about 300 gravestones. Surely this must be the cemetery to
which Mabel was referring, but she had told me it would be on the right-hand
(east) side of the highway. I pulled into the driveway of the graveyard and
got out and began walking every one of the gravestones looking for Burgess T
Chace. Julie, a friend of mine, was along with me that day and helped by
walking about half of the stones while I looked at the others. After about
an hour, we had finished. But, alack and anon, no Burgess T Chace nor were
there any Chaces or Chases at all. Hmmmmm. I decided to try a little further
down the highway and look on the right-hand side as Mabel had indicated. Into
my car, we drove up 63 Highway travelling a bit farther from the University,
and within about a mile, bingo! A wooden sign declared "Cedar Grove
Cemetary" [sic]. Excitement welled up within me as I saw the tall grass and
small, tooth-like gravestones hidden in its midst. Would Burgess T. Chace's
headstone still be here? Had it been destroyed and the grave desecrated with
the building of 63 Highway? Was the gravestone, if it did still exist,
broken as recorded in the WPA list?
Wandering into the small graveyard, I saw that my search would be succinct
as there were merely thirty or so gravestones most of which were no longer
legible due to weather wear. Looking at some of the larger and still legible
headstones revealed no Burgess T. Getting down on my hands and knees to peer
at some of the smaller weather-worn stones I began to think that my quest
was doomed. Even if his stone was still here, I probably would not be able
to read it due to erosion of the stone over the last 147 years. After about
twenty minutes, my attention kept being brought back to a simple, small
stone about one and a half feet tall and about ten inches wide and a couple
of inches think. Something caught my eye, I think it was merely a pattern of
letters that looked as if they might be long enough and in the right
sequence to spell "BURGESS T CHACE." But, my naked eye could not discern it
definitively. I asked Julie if she could make anything out and she shook her
head and said, "I can't see anything on it."
I was not absolutely sure, but my excitement had returned and I decided
there was only one way to know whether this was indeed Burgess Thomas
Chace's final resting place. We got back in the car and sped off to Wal-Mart
to buy tracing paper and some crayons. Returning to the cemetery, I hurried
to the grave and the paper just fit the on the front of the headstone. I
began to rub across the top with a purple crayon and within a minute the
name "BURGESS T CHACE" came into view! What my eyes could not see, the
crayon had revealed! Hurriedly, but with caution not to mark the gravestone
with the crayon, to keep the paper flat and in place, and not to tear it, I
completed my rubbing and what to my wondrous eyes should appear, but the
following epitaph:
BURGESS T CHACE
D i e d 9 m o
& 6 d y 1858
A g e d 73 Y r
1 m o & 15 d y
Beaming with satisfaction at having been able to fill in a missing piece to
a long ago forgotten puzzle, I asked Julie to hold up the paper next to the
gravestone so I could take a photograph. Indeed, the crayon had done the
trick as the photo which can be found here
http://www.chace.demon.nl/BurgessTChaceGravestone.jpg now testifies. No
inkling of the secrets contained on the face of the stone could be discerned
and yet the rubbing stood out next to it as proof of the grave of my
ancestor. Before leaving the small graveyard, I took photos of some of the
other gravestones and of the sign at the entry stating: "Center Grove
Cemetery , Restored by Stephen P. Allison, Boy Scout Troop 71 Oskaloosa, Ia.
as his Eagle Scout Project. Rededicated July 8th, 2000 by the College Avenue
Friends Church. For Information on Pioneer Cemeteries contact: The Mahaska
County Commission for the Preservation of Pioneer Cemeteries at (641)
673-8122." My thanks go out to Stephen P. Allison for all of his hard work.
What a triumphant return to Oskaloosa! I now had Quaker Records, Census
Records and a rubbing of my Great Great Great Great Grandfather's
gravestone. These were but small remnants of the lives my family had led and
yet, they were tangible pieces with which to understand them better and
further build the story of their existence, journeys and hardships. Burgess
Thomas Chace travelled to Oskaloosa, Iowa, near the end of his life to be
with his family. Burgess only had about 3 years to call Iowa his new home
before passing on to his ultimate reward. A few years after his death, all
of his family members had left Iowa. Julia, his wife, and Achsah, their
daughter appear to have returned to Providence, Rhode Island, and during
Civil War hostilities in 1863 his sons Amasa, Burgess, Alonzo, and Joseph
and their families all left for Shawnee where they lived out the rest of
their lives. Burgess's grandsons Elijah and Thomas Jr. joined the rest of
the family in moving to Shawnee. But Thomas Jr. first spent a stint in the
Rhode Island 10th Regiment Infantry Artillery, Company L, from May 1, 1862,
to August 30, 1862, fighting for the Union during the War Between the
States. Burgess's grandson Edward ended up moving to Washington DC to be
with his twin brother Albert where they eventually went into the upholstery
and carpet cleaning business together as AH Chace & Bro.
To my knowledge, only Thomas Chace Jr. ever returned to Iowa for any
significant period of time. After joining the rest of the family in Iowa
after his military enlistment and then moving in 1863 to Shawnee, Thomas
returned to Iowa matriculating at Iowa College in Grinnell (now Grinnell
University) from 1865-1867 and studied in the Preparatory and English
Department preparing himself to enter medical school. While he was in Iowa,
I wonder if Thomas ever took the time to visit his grandfather's grave from
time to time? Eventually, Thomas too lived out his life in and died in
Shawnee, Kansas, leaving Burgess Thomas Chace alone in his grave in Iowa,
the only member of the Chace family left behind there lonely and forlorn.
As I stood looking at his headstone, I felt a strange sense of melancholy
having discovered the forgotten grave. I wondered if Grandpa Burgess could
see me from beyond the grave and knew that I had come to find him, rejoin
him to our family, and erase the century of error which had mistakenly
placed him in Providence at his death all the while he languished on the
Iowa prairie waiting for someone to come visit him?
http://www.chace.demon.nl
Sometime before the Chase reunion in Salt Lake City, William Chase, the
host, wrote to the Chase Manhattan Bank. I have not seen that letter but
below is the bank's answer to it. Quite informative for all of us who always
have wondered which Chase founded the bank. (; >)
Dear Mr. Chase:
Thank you for your invitation and your interest in the Chase Manhattan Bank.
The origin of the word Chase in our name dates back to the founding of the
Chase
National Bank in 1877 when John Thompson, founder of the Chase National
Bank,
decided to name his bank after his respected colleague, Salmon P. Chase,
Secretary of the Treasury under Abraham Lincoln. John Thompson and Salmon
P.
Chase worked together to bring into effect many of the banking laws that
exist
today. For that, John Thompson named his bank after Salmon P. Chase several
years after Chase's death. There is no other connection to the name and/or
family other than that. Salmon P. Chase never worked at the bank, and nor
did
any of his relatives.
If you have any other questions, please let us know. Good luck with your
event.
Sincerely,
Jean Elliott
Archivist
(From the Chase Chronicle - Oct. 1911, page 10)
Even if there was some animosity between the two men, Lincoln must have had
some admiration for Chase because he was known to have said the following.
" Chase is about one and a half times bigger than any other man that I
ever knew."
************************************************************************
(From the Chase Chronicles - July 1910 - page 30)
Lincoln and Chase
Though it is probably true that these two great men had a common
ancestor; yet it is equally true that neither of them knew the fact. Away
back in 1680, there was a man, John Whitman, who lived near the present
meeting house in North Weymouth, Mass. A daughter Sarah, married Abraham
Jones of Hull. Their son John, born 1669, married in 1693, Sarah who had a
daughter Alice, 1694 who married Daniel Corbett of Mendon, to which place
her father had removed.
The daughter of Daniel and Alice Jones, was Alice Corbett born 1733, and
she married one of our ancestors, Dudley Chase, who lived later in Cornish,
N. H. Their son was Ithamar, born in Cornish, 1762, who in turn married
Janet Ralston, and on January 13, 1808, to them was born Salmon Portland,
who as our kinsman was Chief Justice of the United States, and Secretary of
the Treasury under Lincoln.
John Whitman's daughter Sarah who married Abraham Jones of Hull, had a
daughter Sarah who married Mordecai Lincoln of Hingham. Their son Mordecai
married Hannah Salter and had a son John. This John Lincoln had a son named
Abraham, keeping the old family name, and he married Mary Shipley, and had a
son Thomas, and this Thomas Lincoln married Nancy Hanks, and on February 12,
1809 to them was born Abraham who became President Lincoln. Thus both the
President and the Chief Justice came from Abraham Jones of Hull, and John
Whitman of Weymouth.
Excerpts from a James M. McPherson's review of "Team of Rivals" by Dorothy
Goodwin – From the New York Times, November 5, 2005.
Next to Seward in prominence was [Salmon P.] Chase, who had organized the
Free Soil Party in 1848, became its first senator in 1849 and represented
the cutting edge of the Republican antislavery ideology.
* * * * * *
Attorney General Bates, who initially underestimated Lincoln, soon echoed
Seward's favorable opinions. Not so Chase, who never quite got over his
conviction that the wrong man was nominated in 1860 and that he should
receive the nomination in 1864. Lincoln valued his Treasury secretary's
abilities as a finance minister, but he recognized Chase's lack of loyalty
and poorly concealed ambition to replace him. Chase also became a lightning
rod for the radical Republicans' dissatisfaction with the pace of Lincoln's
actions against slavery.
On several occasions Chase offered his resignation in a calculated effort to
force Lincoln's hand on a policy or patronage dispute. Each time
Lincolnparried Chase's tactic, refusing to accept his resignation,
reasserting his
own authority and maintaining the balance among radicals, moderates and
conservatives in the administration. When Chase tried this ploy a fourth
time in June 1864, after Lincoln had been safely renominated, the president
astonished him by accepting the resignation. To redress the cabinet balance,
Lincoln subsequently requested the resignation of Postmaster General
Montgomery Blair, Chase's most bitter enemy in the cabinet and a member of
the powerful Blair family, which represented the most conservative element
in the party. And Lincoln further defused radical opposition by appointing
the deposed Chase as chief justice of the United States.
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Jeffrey Chace
http://www.chace.demon.nl
Hi All,
My wife was born a Chase, Daughter of Luther Milton Chase 1898 1970.
Luther was the son of Joseph Emmett Chase 1861 1939. Joseph was the son of
Increase Chase 1821 1900. Increase Chase was the son of Heman Chase 1788
1879. I have this pretty well documented but then I had trouble with Hemans
father.
Then I found a study done by Almon B. Cannon in 1935 and he came up with a
Jonathan Chase b 1765 and the son of Heman Chase b 1728.
Heman 1728 is listed in the Book The Seven Generations of Aquila and
Thomas Chase by John Carroll Chase and George Walter Chamberlain, and Heman
descends from Thomas Chase.
Milton Chase, my wifes brother was kind enough to have the 25 marker DNA
test and his results, listed in the Chase Surname DNA Project definitely
shows show a match to the William Line.
I have studied the Almon Canon paper and it all seems to make sense,
However I have concluded that Jonathan Chase 1765 as listed in the Canon
study must be wrong. Jonathan 1765 is either not the father of Heman 1788,
or he descends from William and is not the son of Heman 1728.
Does any of this sound familiar to anyone? At this point I need some help.
I would be glad to exchange data with anyone and hope that someone might
have something that will help.
Thank you, Don Houck
Here is a Chase seemingly from Lithuania. I wonder if Edward M. Chase was
his given name, or if he Anglicized his name upon immigrating to the United
States?
*Chase Peace Prize*
The Chase Peace Prize was established at Dartmouth College by Edward M.
Chase, a native of Lithuania who emigrated to the United States, settling in
Manchester, New Hampshire until his death in 1939. A philanthropist of many
causes, Mr. Chase established the Peace Prize in order to encourage careful
reflection on the causes of war and the prospects for peace in the world.
The Chase Prize is offered each year to recognize the best undergraduate
essay and best Senior thesis relating to the understanding of war and the
promotion of world peace.
*The Chase Essay Prize
*The Chase Essay contest is open to all students. The prize will be awarded
for the best essay submitted on the subject of war or peace, broadly
defined, and may concern art and literature, science, politics, philosophy
or any other approach to the topic. Faculty nominations are encouraged.
Essays may not exceed 25 pages in length, and submissions are due at the end
of March each year.
*The Chase Senior Thesis Prize
*The Chase Senior Thesis Prize will be awarded to the best senior thesis
that treats the subject of war, conflict resolution, the prospects and
problems of maintaining peace or other related topics. The thesis may fall
within any of the divisions of the College. Successful entries might
include, for example, an analysis of the representation of war in art,
literature, or music, a historical or contemporary case study of a
particular conflict, the analysis of international institutions and their
influence on peace promotion, a philosophical or ethical analysis of war,
either in general or in a specific case, the study of the environmental
causes and consequences of conflict, a scientific study of weaponry and the
impact of technological change on arms races. Submissions may be in any
format or of any length and may be made by the student or by a faculty
member and are due June 1.
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Jeffrey Chace
http://www.chace.demon.nl