When Lucretia Chase was born in 1842, in Rutland, Meigs, Ohio, United States, her father, Charles C Chase, was 44 and her mother, Mary Triphena Holt, was 39. She married Dr Hiram Horace Russell on 17 March 1863. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Rutland Township, Meigs, Ohio, United States in 1860. She died on 9 June 1922, in Centralia, Marion, Illinois, United States, at the age of 80.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Historical Boundaries: 1853: Marion, Illinois, United States [Spreads across Marion, Clinton, Jefferson, and Washington counties]
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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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