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GENEALOGY

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CHAMPION SPALDING CHASE

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MARY SOPHRONIA BUTTERFIELD,

HIS WIFE.

COMPILED \\\ UKQVES'V ( •: \<l) FOR, JOEL

MUjSSELL'S sons, ALBANY, NEW YORK,

I'UULISMERS OF

"AMERICAN ANCESTRY"

TO WIIICLI BRIEF PERSONAL SKETCHES

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1894.

ANCESTRAL DESCENT OF CHAMPION".

Champion" was the son of Glement", who was the sou of Moses^, who was the sou of Daniel", who was tlie son of Moses'"', who was the son of Aquila*, who was the son of Aquila^, who was the son of Richard'', who was the son of 'i"homas\ who lived and died in the Parish of Chesham, England, in the I'lfteenth C'entury.

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of Champion", on his father's side, and their other descendants in part, together with their history as fully as the records show, back to the Fourteenth Century.

Great, great, great, great, great, great grandfather — Thomas'^ of Hundrich Parish, of Chesham, England. Date of birth not recorded.

(rreat, great, great, great, great grandfather — Richard- of Chesham, England, son of Thomas^. Date of birth not given. He was baptized August 3, 1542, and lived and died in Chesham. He married Joan Bishop, April 6, 1564.

Creat, great, great, great grandfather — Aquila', son of Richard''. He was born in Chesham, England. Date not given. Baptized August 14, 1580. He married Sarah* , The name "Aquila" is unique.

*Tradition handed down the name Sarah as that of the wife, of .Aquila" Cha.se of Clieshani, and it here conforms to the rule of baptism, curiously general, if not in the great majority of cases abso- luie, which prevailed among the early Colonists, of naming the first- horn son after tlie paternal grandfather, the first-born daughter after the paternal grandmother, the second son after the mother's father, nin! SI I (in.

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It is luumi iinwhcie flbtr iii iMigiaiiil, bcli'ic or since, in an) records of families by the name of "(.'base," but romes to tbf front apain in Massarbusetts in tbc next 1 entur) .

(rreal, great, great tjranclfatber — A(jnii.A*, son of a .\(|uila''. He was born in Cbesbam, England, in loiS. He was one of the first grantees and settlers of Hamp- ton, ( Piyniouth) Mass., having come to this country in 1639. He removed to Newbury, Mass., in 1646. He was a sea cajjtain. He married Anne AVheeler, daugh- ter of lohn Wheeler, of Hampton. He died December -'7- 1670.

("■real, great, grandfather — MosKs'', son of Arpiila'. l{c was burn, resided and died in Newbury, Massa- chusetts. He was Knsign in the Kssex Regiment, and was the voungest child of Acjuila' and Anne ^\'heeler, his wife. He married Anne, daughter of Thomas I'olansby.

Oreat grandfather — D.'WIKi/', son of Moses\ He was born .September 20, 1685, in Newbury, Massa- chusetts, and resided thereuntil 1735, when he removed to Littleton, once a jjart of (iroton. From here he soon moved to Sutton, Massachusetts. He married Sarah .March, January 6, 1 706. He died in Sutton, .April 1 7th, 176S.

(irandfather — Mosfs', son of Daniel". He was born in Sutton, .Massachusetts. March r6. 1727. married Hannah Hrown, of Sutton. April 17, 1752. He, with his family and brother Samuel, and Dyer Spalding, came from Sutton and took up lands under Crown grants and settled the town of Cornish, New Hampshire, in 1767, that region then being an unbroken Indian wilderness. He made a tavern of his first log cabin there, and. when an old man, used to sav he was never ha|)pier in his life than when he coidd, from his first crop, cut a bundle of green oats for wa\farers' horses N'! the journe\ ing in those days, in

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that heavily wooded, mountainous country, was done on horseback, with two. frequently, on one horse. If a man and woman, then the woman rode on a pillion behind. Many years after, Mr. Chase built a large double house there, painted white, which stands yet. It is located on the banks of the Connecticut river, opposite the upper part of the village of \Vin(isor, Vermont. Under Colonel Ethan Allen he was captain of a company of New Hampshire "Minute Men" at the taking of Fort Ticon- deroga in 1777, and was one of the presidential electors for New Hampshire when George Washington was first elected President of the United States. He and his wife both died at great age in Cornish.

Children of Moses' and Hannah, his wife.

Daniel, born March 15, 1753, died .

John,_born October 4, 1755, died .

Hannah, born February 9, 1758. Married Daniel Kimball, founder of KimbaD Union Academy, Meriden, N. H. After his death she built handsomely and lib- erally endowed a female department to that institution. Died-^ — .

Amos, born May 19, 1760, died .

Nahum. born October 9, 1762, died .

Judith, born November 26, 1764. Married Moses Bryant of Cornish. Died .

Caleb, born September cr, 1767, died — — -.

Susan, born August 4, 1769, died October 26, 1769.

Moody, born October 10, 1770, died .

Moses, born November 29, 1772, died . .

Susan, born July 4, 1776, died 1778, and

Clemen r**, born July 4, 1776, the birthday of our national independence, died June 7, 1867, at Cornish.

Harvey, born November 13, 1778, died .

Sarah, born 1780, married Rev. Jolin Lord, and so became the mother of the late Rev. fohn CJhase Lord,

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1). 1)., of Buffalo, New \'()rk. wlio was licr eldest son. She (lied .

rhe MosEs'^ Chase family was of remarkable lon- gevity. When the first one died, excepting those who died in infancy, the youngest of those living (twelve in all) was fifty years old.

Daniel, John, Naluim, Moody and Clement were farmers, .Amos a minister, and Moses and Harvey law- yers.

.All the children lived in Cornish after maturity, married and had large families, except Hannah, as be- fore stated, and .Amos, who lived in Litchfield, Con- uectixuit; Moses, who lived in Bradford, Vermont, and Sarah. Kight of them died in Cornish at an advanced age. several of them over ninety years aid. .

Father of Champion", — Ci.k.ment*' of Cornish, N. H., son of Moses^

He was a plain, substantial farmer, and for many years, and until very old, deacon in the "Old Center" Congregational church. He was well known for his rigid probity of character, his humanity, hospitality and liberality.

He was married three times and had seventeen children. He married first in 179S, Lucy Murray, of Litchfield, Parish of South Farms, Connecticut. She was born in 1778 and died August 18, 18 14, in C^ornish-

(Children of Clemen't** and Lucy, his wife:

Philemon Murray, born 1799, dijd 1820.

Susan, born August 11. 1800, died 1837.

Truman, born 1S02, married Amanda Tisdale of of Hanover, N. H. No issue. He died 1832.

Lucy .Murray, born December 17, 1807, married Horace Hushnell of Westbrook, (Connecticut; tlied Sep- tember 30, 1880.

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George Clem'ent, born May i, uSog, died January 24, 1810.

Esther Robbins, born l-'ebruary, 1S13, died March 12, 1 8 13.

Esther Robbins, born August 13, 1814, married William Silloway of Plainfield, New Hampshire, and several years later wivh him moved to Racine, Wiscon- sin, where they now reside.

The second wife of Clkmen r^ whom he married in 1815, was Olive Spalding, of Meriden Parish, Plainfield, N. H., who was born February 29, 1790 and died on May II, 1823, at Cornish.

Children of Clkment'* and Olive, his wife:

Olive Spalding, born March 6, 1816, married John P.. Judson, M. I). Died August 31, 1866, at 1-ivingston- ville, New York.

Eunice Dana, born t8i8, died 1832.

Chame^ion" Sr>Ai.i)iN(;, born March 20, 1820, mar- ried, at Racine, Wisconsin, May rst. 1848, Mary Sophronia Butterfield, born January 6, 1827, at Homer, N. Y.; she died at Omaha, January 3, 1882.

Philemon Murray, born July 12, 1822, died July 12, 182-..

Issue of Chamimon'' Si'alding and Mary Sophro- nia, his wife:

Chamckjn^" Ci.kmknt of Onmha, horn al Racine, \Viscf>nsin, February 25, i860: married Oclolier 5, 18S7, at Santa Ana, Califm-- iiia. l.iila i'.ell Edwards, horn at Chariton, Iowa, August 7, 1865.

Children of CuAMf^ioN^" Clemen r and Lula Pell, his wife:

Ci.tMKNr^' Edwards, horn July 26, 18S8. Carniehta. burn April 20, 1890.

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The third wife (;f Ci.kmknt" was Prudence Spafford Andrus, of Bradford, Vermont, born August 31st, 1789, died July 18, 1863, at Cornish.

Children of Ciemkni** an(i Prudence S., his wife:

Sarah, born November 23, 1829, now of Chicago, Ills., married Robert H. Lay.

Creorge" Murray, born March 6, 1830, married l">meline Chapman of Cornish. He died in 1886.

Ruthy Maria, born , died .

Besides these, three other children who died in infancy. ,

Children of C.eorge'' Murray and Emeline, his wife:

I li)race'" liushnell of L;^keville, .Miiirt., liorii in Coniisli, N. H. October 25, 1S56, married IX'cemher 25, 1880, FJizaheth Jelly,", liorn ,\ugust 4, 1861, at New Market, Minn.

Murray'" Chapman, of Chicago, Ills., born iii Cornish, N. 11., May 25, 1859, niarrie<l .April 15, 1S85, Emily Frances llollanti, boin July 4, 185S.

Children of Horace'" B. and Klizabeth J., his wife:

Clement" Cieorge, b.>rn August 10, [8S1. John" .\rnistrong, born April 16, 1883. Veinira Enicline, born January 21, 1885. Elizabeth .Myrtle, born May 31. 1887. Willi.s" Harold, born .May 22, 1889. Murray" Chapman, born .March 28, 1891. .Sarah Jane, born April 25, 1893.

Children of Murray'" Chapman and Emily F., his wife.

Chapman" Holland, born February 20, 1886. Olive Frances, born July 16, 1S87. Cora Florence, born March 8, 18S9. Pearl Edith, born March 27, 1891. E.sther Louise, born May 10, 181)3.

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SKKTCHKS.

(:H-AMPH)N SPALlilNG CHASK.

('ham])i()n" Spalding (.'base, now of Omaha. Ne- braska, was born in Cornish, New Hampshire, Marrh 20, 1820. He is of Pilgrim stock on both sides.

On his father's side he is of lineal descent from .\(|nila' Cubase, who came from Chesham, England, and was one of the first grantees and settlers of Hampton, (Plymouth) Massachusetts, in 1639, and who moved to Newl)ury in 1646.

On his mother s side, through her father, ("ham- pion" S]-)alding, of Plainfield, N. H., (for whom he was named and who served in the Revohitionarv Army at the battle of Bunker Hill, and also at the battle of Bennington, and was present at the surrender of Bur- goyne.) he is eighth in descent from Edward' Spalding, who came to America from England in the earliest years of the Massachusetts O)lony, about 1630 or 1633, and settled at Braintree. His christian name, "Cham- pion," comes down through his maternal grandfather, from his maternal great grandmother, whose maiden name was Parnell Champion, and who married Philip S]3alding of Plainfield, Connecticut, father of Cham- pion" Spalding.

Champion^ received his ])rimary education in a (iistrict or common school in his native town, and his higher eilncation at Kimball Union Acad- emy, Meriden, ^■ew Hampshire. He taught dis- trict schools in Cornish three winters before he became of age, and then, in 1841- 2, was employed as a teacher in the Academy at Amsterdam, New York, and in 1843-4 became \ice-principal of the West Hartwick. (^N. Y.) Seminary.

He then studied law in Buffalo, N. Y., with F^arker and Sill, three years, and in T847, while so engaged, became, bv aiMiointment of the ./.n-ernor. n deletrate

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from that state to tlie famous National River and Har- bor Convention, lieUl at Chicago. He was admitted to the New \o\\. P.ar the same year at Canandaigua, being a member of one of the first classes examined under the new Code of Procedure, created b\ the Constitution of 1846; then went to Wisconsin, while it was yet a ter- ritory, and the next year, on the first day of May, the day of his marriage, opened his law ofifice at the city of Racine, where he remained until he entered the Union Army.

In 1851 he was, (Chief Justice Roger B. Taney presiding,) admitted to practice io the United States Supreme Court, at Washington, on motion of Daniel Webster, as shown by his certificate of admission, under the seal of that court. He was elected a member of the Board of Education of Racine in 1853, was contin- uously re-elected until 1857, and the last two years was President of the Board.

In 1856 he rej^resented, as a delegate, the First Congressional District of Wisconsin in the first National Republican (Convention, which was held at Philadeli)hia, and at whicli General John C. Fremont was nominatetl for President of the United States. The same year he was elected for two years to the VVisconsin State Senate, in which body, as Chairman of the Judiciary Commit- tee, he supervised the revision of the Statutes of that state.

In 185c) he was chf)sen District .\ttorney of the First Judicial District for two years, and in 1862 was unexpectedly, by the personal request of Salmon P. Chase, his cousin, then .Secretary of the United States Treasury, commissioned Paymaster in the L'liion Arm\- with the rank of Major of Cavalry, by President .Abra ham Lincoln. He served in the armv nearl\ four years, much of the time on special duiy in the west and south-west: was at the sieges of Knoxville, Mobile and \'irksburg and entered the latter citv upon its surrender,

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wi'h (General Grant's staff. July 4tli, 1863. Afterwards for over two years he had his headquarters a't New Orleans, where he served successively under Crenerals Banks, Sheridan and Canby while performing duty most of the time on tlie Rio Grande, at P>rownville and othjr points, with Cieneral Weitzel's corps. As appears by a commission from President .\ndrew Johnson, he was breveted l.ieutenant-C'olonel, for "meritorious ser- vices in the Gulf campaign.'' Having served nine months after the close of the war, he was honorably discharged at Brownville, Texas, in January. 1866. The same year he went to Omaha, in the then Ter- ritory of Nebraska, and the next year, became, upon its admission to the Union, the first Attorney General of that state. It 1869 he was appointed by the govern- or, a regent of the State University of Nebraska for six years.

In 1874 he was elected Mayor of Omaha for one year and again elected for two years in 1875, making him the Centennial Mayor. He was elected to the same office in 1879 and again in 1883, serving as Mayor of that city seven years. He received, during this time, many valuable testimonials from the citizens of their appreciation of his services.

In 1876 he outlined to the City Council a plan of public improvements for the city, including parks and boulevards, and a system of waterworks, of both direct and gravitation power, all of which, with the necessary permanent street improvements, have been carried out or are in course of construction.

In 1S74, when he was first elected to the Mayor- alty, the population of the city was 21,060. In 1885, when he closed his last term, it was 70,410. and, soon after, in 1890, it was. by the United States census, 140,452.

\Vhile Mayor, Colonel Chase received an<l, offici- allv and sociallv entertained an unusual number of dis

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tint(uislied people; among them Kiiiy Kalakaua, of the Hawaiian Islands; Dom Pedro, Emperor of I'razil; I-ord Dufterin, (tovernor Oeneral of Canada; President and Mrs. Grant, President and Mrs. Hayes; and, again. General Grant, after his famous trip around the world, receiving him on Capitol Hill in the presence of 30,000 people, with an addres.s of welcome, to which the Gen eral replied in one of his w(jnderfully laconic, but com- prt-hensive, speeches. Among others entertained by him, official! V. were Generals Sherman. Sheridan. Gnster and Crook.

C'olonel Chase has always been acti\e in educa- tional work, and. in 1883, delivered in Lincoln, the State University Address at Commencement, on which occasion the degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred upon him by that institution. He has held many other positions of honor, among them Kminent Commander of Mt. Calvary Cornmandery, Knights Templar of Omaha; Generalissimo of the State Grand Commandery, Knights Templar; Commander of U. S. Gram Post, (L .-\.. R., Omaha; President of the Nebraska Society Sons of the .American Revolution; \'ice-President General of the Nationa' Society S A. R.. and President of the Nebraska Humane Society.

At this time he is. Chairman of the International PanT-lepublic (Congress Committee on Plan and Scoj)e; Member for .NJebraska of the National Nicaragua Canal Committee and the Inter state Deej) Harbor Com- mittee, and \'ice-President of the Nebraska State Irri- gation .Association.

The Nebraska Legislature, in 1872, named Chase County for him; the citizens of C;ham])ion, a manufac- turing town in I hat county. locate(i at the romantic Falls of the ri\er Frenchman, adopted his first name for their town, while the 1>. <.V M. Railroad, which runs through the county, named Chase for him. :i lu-.Tiitifullv locnif^l ^t.ition on their line there.

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Colonel Chase, as a ()ublic speaker, may well be said to have achieved a national reputation, through addesses delivered by him, both before and since the war for the Union, in \arious places in the Ignited States. Scarcely an Independence Dav has passed since US64, when he addressed 5,000 Union soldiers, on Jackson Square, in New Orleans, that he has not de- livered an oration.

Many of his sjieeches and public ad(Uesse's have, from time to time, been jjublished. Among the first of these which attracted special attention was one deliv- livered in the Wisconsin Senate, in 1857, on the slavery question, and in opposition to its further extension westward — a Memorial to Congress to that effect being under consideration.

His time for the last few years has been spent very considerably in attendance as a delegate at conventions of various kinds for the promotion of the public welfare, both state, national and internat'onal. in all of which he has actively j^articipated.

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Miss Mary Sophronia Butterfield. whom Colonel Chase married, was a graduate, class of 1845, of the Emma Willard Female Seminary, Troy. N. \. She was of attractive personal presence, possessed unusual intelligence, well versed in music, literature and his- tory, and withal, very domestic.

Her father, Moses Bradford Butterfield, of Homer, New York, was a lawyer of distinguished ability. He was bora^at Canterburv, Connecticut, January 2(y, 1797, moved to Homer, afterwards to Virginia, and later to Ionia, Michigan, where he died May 17, 1872. Her mother, Mary Stanton Noyes, was born at Ston- ington, Connecticut, y\pril 17, 1796, and died September 13, 1836. at Homer.

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Mary Sophronia Butterfield was a lineal descen- dant, on both sides, from Pilgrim stock, being, on her father's side, eighth in direct line from Governor Wil- liam Bradford of Plymouth Colony, and, through him, reaching back three generations more to Rev. John liradford, Chaplain to the Queen, and who was burned at the stake on account of his religious faith, at Smith- held, in 1555, with Rogers, Latimer and others. On her mother's side she was a lineal descendant of three prominent New England Pilgrims, one of these being Thomas Stanton, who came to this country from Eng- land in 1636 and settled at Stonington (Pawcatuc) Con- necticut, and who was appointed by the General Court of that Colony, in 1638, Indian Interpreter, and soon after chosen Indian laterpreter General for New Eng- land, by the Commissioners of the United Colonies. The second of these ancestors was William Dennison, who came from England in 163!, settled at Roxbury, Massachusetts, and whose son, George, more dis- tinguished, went to England, served under Oliver Cromwell at Naseby, was wounded, nursed at the house of John Borodel, married his daughter, Ann Borodel, returned to .\merica, and settled at Stonington, Con- necticut. His wife, widely known as -'Lady Ann," was noted for her remarkable beauty and fascinating per- sonality, as well as for the exceeding excellence of her character. The third of these pilgrim ancestors was Rev. James Noyes, a celebrated divine, who was born at Choulderton, Wiltshire, England, in 1608, married Sarah, eldest daughter of Joseph Brown, of Southhampton, England, in 1634, and came to New- England the same year. He first preached at Medford, Massachusetts, where be was made a freeman, Septem- ber 3, 1634; afterwards he officiated at the Watertown church, and in 1635 went to Newbury, where he l)reached until his death, which occurred October 22, 1656.

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In iX()4-5 Mrs. Chase, with her then little son, "Clem," spent two years in the Union Army with hei' husband, and during that time, at New Orleans, the disease of which she finally died, first manifested itself, though not known to exist in its real character until nearly twenty years afterwards. The night of her death, when told, by one of the attending physicians, that he did not think she could live until morning, she replied: "lam ready." and soon after peacefully ex- pired.

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COAT OF ARMS AND CREST.

Edmonson, in his work on Heraldry, gives the Coat of Arms and Crest of Chase as follows: Arms Gules, four crosses patonce, argent two and two, on a canton azure a lion passant. Or. Crest — a lion rampant, Or, holding between his feet a cross patonce — Gules- . In this case the Arms are precisely those of Chase of Chesham, the only difference being in the color of the cross in the Crest.

The Coat of Arms and Crest represented on the sec- ond page of this pamphlet does not vary much, as an emblem, from the Chesham, except that it bears at the base, on a scroll, the motto, semper victoi . "This is sup- posed to be the particular design adopted by the Aqnila Chase branch of the family.

There are other descriptions of the Chase Coat and Crest, in the numerous works on Heraldr)', but all, sub- stantially, of the same import, the Hon being the leading emblem. One, claimed on current authority, to be the original, reads thus: Ciules, four crosses patonce, Argent, on a canton Azure, a lion passant. Or.

NOTF).— The compiler, among other papers, lias had access to the priiitcd report of H. fl. Somerby, Esq., concerning his inves tigations, began in iS6i, by virtue of his being employed in this country by those who thought themselves interested in the famous "Lord Townley or Chase Estate" in England. The search he made was very thorough and led him to examine the official records in every county iu England, and was continued for several years, at in tervals, until he had noted the names and dates of birth and baptism of all of the name of Chase who lived during the fifteenth and earl\ ]inrt of the sixteenth centuries.

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THE SAMUEJ/ CKASE BRANCH.

SamueF Chase, son of Daniel"', married Mary Dudley, and removed with his family to Cornish, N. H., on the Connecticut River, of which town, in 1767, he was one of the three founders, the other two being his brother, Moses', and Dyer Spalding, He died August ii, iSoo. His children were

Samuel, Jonathan, Dudley,'* born 1730, March, Sarah, Elizabeth, Solomon, Anne and Mary.

Dudley** Chase married August 23, 1753, Alice Corbet of Mendon, and died April 13, 18 14. He waS the father of a distinguished family of sohs:

Salmon Chase, born July 14, i7(')i, at Sutton, an eminent lawyer of Portland.

Ithmar", born 1763, at Sutton. Baruch, born March 27, 1764, at (Cornish. Heber, born September 2, 1770. Dudley.," born December 30, 1771. Philander," born December 14, 1775.

The Hon. Ithmar" Chase, a distinguished- citizen, married Janet Ralston of Keene, N. H.

Among their children was Salmon'" Portland, born at Cornish, N. H., January 13, 1808.

The Hon. Dudley" Chase, a graduate with honors of Dartmouth College, 1791, was for many years a leader of the Vermont Bar. He was a Senator of the United States from 1813 to 181 7, and Chief Justice of Vermont from 1817 to 1821.

The Rev. Philander" Chase, one of the most re- markable men of his time, and whose Reminiscences and Autobiography constitute one of the most interest- ing and valuable books illustrative of the early history of the West, was graduated at Dartmouth College. 1796. He was ordained a Deacon of the Episco])al Church in 1798, and after some years' service as a .Missionary

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Preacher, became Rector of Christ's Church, Pough- keepsie, which office he resigned to become Rector af C'hrist's Church, New Orleans, in 1805. He became Bishop of Ohio in 1818, which office he resigned in 183 1. He was the founder and first President of Ken- yon College. In 1835 he was chosen Bishop of Illinois, founded Jubilee College in 1838, and continued his active exertions in behalf of the Protestant Episcopal Church until his death in 1852.

The Hon. Salmon'" Portland Chase, late Chief Justice of the United States, was graduated at Dart- mouth College in 182^6, with high honors. He was a Senator of the United States from 1849 ^^ ^^^55? Gov- ernor of Ohio from 1855 to 1859, again a United States Senator in 1861, Secretary of the Treasury from 1861 to 1864, and was appointed Chief Justice of the United States in 1865. He married, ist., Catharine Jane Garniss, March 4, 1834, 2d, Eliza Ann Smith, September 26, 1839; 3d, Sarah Bella Dunlop Ludlow, November 6, 1846, and had several children, one of whom was Kate, the wife of the Hon. William Sprague, United States Senator from Rhode Island during the time of the Great Rebellion.

Salmon'" Portland, while Secretary of the Treasury, to which place President Abraham Lincoln appointed him, was the originator and father of the greenback system of United States Currency, which enabled the government so successfully to carry on to a triumphal conclusion the Civil War, for the preservation of this L^nion. To him,. more than any other man in civil lif J, save, perhaps, the lamented Lincoln, belongs the credit of our National Salvation from armed foes within and, scarcely less dangerous than armed foes, from without.

It has been said, and no doubt truly, that Governor Chase was ambitious to become the President of the Great Republic he had done so much to protect and

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save from destruction. Let it be so. It would not be an easy task to name the other statesman, of his time, who, more than he, deserved that, the highest of all political honors.