Brief Life History of George Ambrose
When George Ambrose Chase was born on 13 April 1840, in Saint John, St. John, New Brunswick, Canada, his father, John Woodworth Chase, was 41 and his mother, Millicent S Theal, was 49. He married Margaret G. Groff on 27 December 1907, in Galt, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. He lived in Chelsea, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States in 1910 and Waterloo, Ontario, Canada in 1911. He died on 20 December 1917, in Ontario, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 77, and was buried in Ayr Cemetery, Ayr, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
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- George Chase, "Canada Census, 1911"
- George Ambrose Chase, "Ontario Marriages, 1869-1927"
- George A. Chase, "Canada, Ontario Deaths, 1869-1937 and Overseas Deaths, 1939-1947"
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1867 · Ontario Founded
On July 1, 1867, the province of Ontario was founded. It is the second largest province in Canada. A third of the population of Canada live here. Before it was Ontario it was called Upper Canada and had a Governor.
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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