When William Henry Chase was born on 1 May 1876, in Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Charles Francis Chase, was 23 and his mother, Elizabeth Taylor, was 25. He married Lydia Hathaway Hunt on 2 October 1902, in New Bedford, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in New Bedford, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States for about 30 years. He died on 15 August 1962, in Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in New Bedford, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States.
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Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
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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