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, Cambridge, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. He lived in Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1872 and Chelsea, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States in 1910. He died on 10 December 1917, at the age of 77.