Brief Life History of Hosea Q.
When Hosea Q. Chase was born on 10 January 1833, in Meredith Center, Meredith, Belknap, New Hampshire, United States, his father, John Chase, was 46 and his mother, Sally Leavitt, was 42. He married Mary Maranda Bixby on 23 February 1864, in Orange, Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in New Hampton, Belknap, New Hampshire, United States in 1850. He registered for military service in 1861. He died on 20 June 1902, in Meredith, Belknap, New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Meredith, Belknap, New Hampshire, United States.
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- Hosea D Chase, "United States Census, 1900"
- Hosea Chase, "New Hampshire Death Records, 1654-1947"
- Hosea Q Chase, "United States General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934"
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1834 · Vermont Anti-Slavery Society is Formed
The Anti-Slavery Society of Vermont was established in 1834. 100 people from different towns were at the first meeting, with the intent to abolish slavery.
1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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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