When Flossie Lillian Chase was born on 15 January 1898, in Upton, Oxford, Maine, United States, her father, Edward Clarence Chase, was 29 and her mother, Mary Ann McLeod, was 29. She married Earl Clayton Cotes on 1 August 1920, in Rumford, Oxford, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Rumford, Oxford, Maine, United States in 1920 and Kittery, York, Maine, United States for about 10 years. She died on 8 January 1995, in Penobscot, Hancock, Maine, United States, at the age of 96, and was buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, York, Maine, United States.
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This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
In 1905, a fire lookout tower (among the first of its kind) was constructed in Piscataquis County on Squaw Mountain. Due to Maine's abundance of lumber and paper mills, it was essential that a system be developed to help spot fires as quickly as possible.
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
English (southern): metonymic occupational name for a huntsman, or perhaps a nickname for an exceptionally skilled huntsman, from Middle English chase ‘hunt’ (Old French chasse, from chasser ‘to hunt’, Latin captare).
History: Thomas Chase came to MA from Chesham, Buckinghamshire, England, in the 1640s, and had many prominent descendants. Samuel Chase, born in Somerset County, MD, in 1741, was one of the first members of the US Supreme Court; Philander Chase, born in Cornish, NH, in 1741 was a prominent Episcopal clergyman, and his nephew Salmon Portland Chase (1808–73), also born in Cornish, was governor of OH, a US senator, and secretary of the US Treasury during the Civil War.
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