Brief Life History of Jean Elizabeth
When Jean Elizabeth Chase was born on 14 September 1924, in Van Nuys, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, her father, Joseph Newton Chase, was 30 and her mother, Josephine Eloise Porter, was 28. She married Lynn Noble Splan on 28 January 1947, in Clark, Nevada, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. She lived in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States for about 5 years. She died on 16 January 1981, in Fresno, Fresno, California, United States, at the age of 56, and was buried in Chatsworth, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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- Jean Chase in household of Joseph N Chase, "United States Census, 1940"
- Jean Elizabeth Chase, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
- Jean E Chase, "Nevada County Marriages, 1862-1993"
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1927
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
1934 · Alcatraz Island Becomes Federal Penitentiary
Alcatraz Island officially became Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary on August 11, 1934. The island is situated in the middle of frigid water and strong currents of the San Francisco Bay, which deemed it virtually inescapable. Alcatraz became known as the toughest prison in America and was seen as a “last resort prison.” Therefore, Alcatraz housed some of America’s most notorious prisoners such as Al Capone and Robert Franklin Stroud. Due to the exorbitant cost of running the prison, and the deterioration of the buildings due to salt spray, Alcatraz Island closed as a penitentiary on March 21, 1963.
1941
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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