When Ernestine Chase was born on 11 August 1862, in Germany, her father, Samuel Chase, was 37 and her mother, Jeanette Bausch, was 33. She married Abraham Moos on 20 September 1883, in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States for about 10 years. She died on 13 December 1919, in New York City, New York County, New York, United States, at the age of 57.
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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