Brief Life History of Berry or Bessy
When Berry or Bessy Chase was born in April 1885, in Hand, South Dakota, United States, her father, Gideon R Chase, was 34 and her mother, Roselia Emery, was 33.
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Parents and Siblings
1850–1926 Male
1852–1885 Female
Siblings (5)
1871– Female
1875– Female
1877– Female
1880–1954 Male
1885– Female
World Events (3)
1886
Age 1
1886 · Giving Working Men a Union
Age 1
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
Age 5
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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