Brief Life History of John Howland
When John Howland Chase was born on 18 June 1896, in Centerville, Davis, Utah, United States, his father, Frank Leslie Chase, was 30 and his mother, Emma Amelia Croft, was 28. He married Alice Jean Ackerman on 9 November 1921, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in United States in 1949. He registered for military service in 1918. He died on 13 April 1989, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 92, and was buried in Centerville, Davis, Utah, United States.
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- John H Chase, "United States 1950 Census"
- John Howland Chase, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
- John Howland Chase, "United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942"
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1897 · The Utah State Historical Society
The Utah State Historical Society was, founded in 1897 and now part of the Government of Utah's Division of State History. It encourages the research, study, and publication of Utah history. It also publishes a history journal named the Utah Historical Quarterly. The Utah State Historical Society has grown to several thousand members and has published over 300 issues of the Utah Historical Quarterly.
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
1921 · One of The Oldest Coasters in the World
Utah is home to one of the oldest coasters in the world that is still operational. The Roller Coaster, at Lagoon Amusement park, is listed number 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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