When Squire Chase was born on 15 February 1803, in Dutchess, New York, United States, his father, Lemuel Chase, was 38 and his mother, Amy Horton, was 40. He married Julia Rogers about 1825, in Lewis, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He died on 26 July 1843, in Houseville, Lewis, New York, United States, at the age of 40, and was buried in Lewis, Lewis, New York, United States.
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Lewis and Clark set out from St. Louis, MO to explore the West.
Historical Boundaries: 1805: Lewis, New York, United States
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
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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