Papers, 1843-1902.

Chase Brothers & Co. (Chicago, Ill.)

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Chase, Charles C.

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Chase, Horace G. (Horace Gair), 1827-1913

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Horace Gair Chase was born in Hopkinton, New Hampshire, July 9, 1827, one of three sons of probate judge Horace and Betsy (Blanchard) Chase. His mother died when he was young and his father remarried in June, 1844. At age sixteen he was apprenticed to the mathematical and nautical instrument store of Samuel S. Thaxter & Son in Boston, where he remained for over a year until his health failed. Off duty hours found young Horace at the library, various church and temperance meetings, and occasi...

Chase, E. Marian (Ellen Marian)

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Horace Gair Chase was born in Hopkinton, New Hampshire, on July 9, 1827, the son of Horace Chase and Betsey Blanchard. He was a shoemaker in Hopkinton until 1852, when he joined his brothers, Samuel Blanchard and Charles Carroll ("Charley"), in Chicago, Illinois, where the they eventually formed Chase Bros. & Co., a real estate firm later known as the Chicago Title & Trust Co. He married Ellen Marian Sherwin (b. 1822) on June 14, 1860, and they had four children: Samuel, Bessie, Lucy, an...