When Muriel Rosamond Chase was born on 5 June 1901, in Loup City, Sherman, Nebraska, United States, her father, Altholbert Elton Chase, was 29 and her mother, Anna Luretta Sutton, was 27. She married Keith Clark Lewis on 16 August 1925, in Loup City, Sherman, Nebraska, United States. She lived in Ord, Valley, Nebraska, United States in 1930 and Ord City, Valley, Nebraska, United States for about 10 years. She died on 8 December 1996, in Omaha, Douglas, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 95.
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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