Genealogy of Champion Spalding Chase and Mary Sophronia Butterfield, his wife

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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.

ANCESTORS

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.

i:KNEALOGY OF

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,

cr.NF.Ai ocv or

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.

HIE CHASE FAMILY

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.

Cr.h'EALOGY (>/■

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.

I HE CHASE EAMJl.y

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.

'/7/A ClfASf: FA. Ml I. Y

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.

iM-ARV SOPHRONIA BUTTKRFIKLD.

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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GENEALOGY OE

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.

i6 GEA'EALOav OF

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.

rHE C7TASE FAMILY

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.