Brief Life History of David Harvey
When David Harvey Chase was born on 26 August 1856, in Dale, Outagamie, Wisconsin, United States, his father, Thomas H. Chase, was 24 and his mother, Katherine Elisabeth Geibel, was 18. He married Rosella "Ella" Jane Hart on 24 November 1878, in Fremont, Waupaca, Wisconsin, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Oshkosh, Winnebago, Wisconsin, United States in 1930 and Oshkosh Town, Winnebago, Wisconsin, United States in 1940. He died on 8 April 1951, in Fremont, Waupaca, Wisconsin, United States, at the age of 94, and was buried in Outagamie, Wisconsin, United States.
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- David S Chase in household of Pruyn S Furlong, "United States Census, 1930"
- David H. Chase, "Wisconsin, County Marriages, 1836-1911"
- David Harvey Chase, "Find A Grave Index"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1867 · The First Successful Typewriter is Invented
A patent was filed on October 11, 1867, on a new direct action typewriter. The patent was filed by Christopher Latham Sholes, Carlos Glidden, and Samuel Soule who had invented the prototype in Milwaukee.
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
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.
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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