Brief Life History of Eli Marion
When Eli Marion Chase was born on 9 November 1808, in Ellisburg, Jefferson, New York, United States, his father, Stephen Chase, was 29 and his mother, Orryanna Rowe, was 24. He married Olive Polly Ann Hills on 25 July 1840, in Madison, Madison, Madison, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1850. He died on 20 February 1851, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 42, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Henry Chase, "United States Census, 1850"
- Utah, Death and Military Death Certificates, 1904-1961
- Eli Chace, "Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1908-1949"
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1810
Oldest Grave seen in the Memorials List.
1812
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
1820 · Making States Equal
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
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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Journal of Eli Chase
Record of Eli Chase (1808-1851) Son of Stephen Chase and Orryanna Rowe Introduction, transcription, and commentary by Colleen Helquist, 2005 Introduction In 1845, Eli Chase began a record of Chase …
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