Brief Life History of Herbert Elmer
When Herbert Elmer Chase Jr. was born on 29 June 1909, in Lewiston, Androscoggin, Maine, United States, his father, Herbert Elmer Chase Sr., was 31 and his mother, Mabel Marion Moulton, was 31. He lived in Clinton, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States in 1935 and Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States in 1940. He died on 25 December 1988, in San Diego, San Diego, California, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in West Boylston, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Herbert E Chase, "United States Census, 1940"
- Legacy NFS Source: Herbert E. Chase - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Herbert E. Chase
- Index to Marriages in Massachusetts, 1901-1955 and 1966-1970
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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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