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584 progress, Mrs. Chase remained at the consulate to protect the American records during the enforced absence of her husband. On one occasion an in- furiated mob attempted to pull down the flag that floated over her residence ; but, with revolver in hand, she defied the crowd, and declared that no one should touch the flag except over her dead body. Later she succeeded in communicating with Com. Connor, then commanding the U. S. fleet in the Gulf of Mexico, and through her instrumental- ity the city of Tampico was taken, without ex- penditure of life or treasure. In honor of her heroism, the army named the fortress of the city Fort Ann, and the ladies of New Orleans presented her with a service of plate. In 1871 her husband resigned his office and she removed to Brooklyn, where the remainder of her life was spent. Dur- ing the voyage to the United States, while rescuing a child from danger, she received injuries that re- sulted in a cancer of the breast, causing her death.

CHASE, Benjamin, clergyman, b. in New Hampshire in 1789 ; d. in Natchez, Miss., 11 Oct., 1870. He was graduated at Middlebury in 1814, and, after studying theology, was ordained in the Presbyterian church. His ministerial life was spent entirely in the southwest, where he did a noble missionary work in circulating the Scrip- tures. He was also a geologist, and presented Oakland, Miss., college with a valuable collection of fossils, which he had gathered during his jour- neys. In 1857 Washington college conferred upon him the degree of D. D.

CHASE, Carlton, P. E. bishop, b. in Hopkinton, N. H., 20 Feb., 1794; d. 18 Jan., 1870. He was graduated at Dartmouth in 1817, studied for tlie ministry in the Episcopal church, and was or- dained deacon in Bristol, R. I., by Bishop Griswold, 9 Dec, 1818, and priest, in Newport, R. I., 27 Sept., 1820. He accepted a call to Bellows Falls, Vt., and was pastor there for twenty-four years. He wasconsceruted the first bishop of New Hampshire, in Pliilailcl]>liia, 20 Oct., 1844, after which he re- moval to (Uaremont, N. H., and was rector of Trinity church there for several years. During the interim, when New York was without a bishop capable of action. Bishop Chase made three visita- tions in that diocese between December, 1849, and September, 1852. He published a few single ser- mons and addresses.

CHASE, Dudley, statesman and jurist, b. in Cornish, N. H., 30 Dec, 1771 ; d. in Randolph, Vt., 23 Feb., 184G. Pie was graduated at Dartmouth in 1791, and admitted to the bar in 1793. He was attorney for Orange county from 1803 till 1811, and a member of the constitutional conventions of 1814 and 1822. From 1805 till 1812 he was a member of the legislature, and speaker of the house from 1808 till 1812. He was U. S. senator from 1813 till 1817, and again from 1825 till 1831. From 1817 till 1821 he was chief justice of the Vermont supreme court. In 1831 he retired and devoted himself to farming, of which he was very fond.

CHASE, Frederic Augustus, clergyman, b. at King's Ferry, Cayuga co., N. Y., 29 Jan., 1833. He studied at Union college and the University of Michigan, paying special attention to engineering and the sciences, and then at the Auburn theo- logical seminary. After being ordained as a Pres- byterian clergyman, he had charge of churches in Parishville and Lyndonville, N. Y. From 1868 till 1870 he was president of a female seminary in Lyons, Iowa, and in 1872 became professor of natu- ral sciences in Fisk university, Nashville, Tenn. He has made several minor inventions of improved forms of heating apparatus, has contributed to periodical literature, and published a sermon on the death of President Lincoln (1865).

CHASE, George, lawyer, b. in Portland, Me., 29 Dec, 1849. He was graduated at Yale in 1870, being the valedictorian of his class, and at Colum- bia law-school. New York city, in 1873. He became assistant professor of municipal law in Columbia in 1875, and in 1878 was made professor of criminal law, torts, and procedure. He has published tiie "American Student's Blackstone" (New York, 1876), and edited the " Ready Legal Adviser " (1881) and an edition of Stephens's " Digest of the Law of Evidence " (1886).

CHASE, Harry, painter, b. in Woodstock, Vt., 8 May, 1853 ; d. in New York city, 2 Oct., 1898. He studied at The Hague, at the Munich acad- emy, and in Paris. He was elected an associate of the national academy in 1883. His studio was in New York. His principal works are " Breezy Afternoon off the Battery in New York " ; " Pecheurs Anglais," "Low Tide on the Welsh Coast " (1878) ; " Herring-Fishers of Scheveningen " (1880) ; " Outward-bound Whaler," " Dutch Boats at An- chor" (1881); "Departure of a French Brig," "Bringing the Fish Ashore" (1882); "Coast of Holland," " Summer Morning on French Coast " (1883) ; " Near Dordrecht," " Batterv Park in New York " (1884) ; " Rising Tide on the'Dutch Coast," and "New York Harbor— North River" (1885).

CHASE, Irah, clergyman, b. in Stratton, Vt., 5 Oct., 1793; d. in Newton, Mass., 1 Nov., 1864. He was graduated at Middlebury in 1814, and at Andover theological seminary in 1817. He was ordained as a Baptist minister at Danvers, Mass., 17 Sept., 1817, and spent a year in missionary labor in western Virginia. While at Andover, he had become impressed with the need of a special theo- logical school for his denomination, and in 1818 was associated with Dr. William Staughton in the establishment at Philadelphia of the first Baptist theological school in the country. Tliis was re- moved in 1822 to Washington. I). C, and made a part of the newly chartered Columbian college, in which Dr. Chase held the chair of biblical litera- ture till 1825, when he resigned. He then removed to Massachusetts and took a prominent part in the establishment of Newton theological institu- tion, where he was the first professor, holding the chair of biblical theology till 1836, when he was transferred to that of ecclesiastical history. He resigned in 1845, to devote himself to theological and literary investigations. He had spent a year in Europe while holding his Washington profes- sorship, and in 1830 made a second visit, and was instrumental in founding the Baptist mission in France. He published " Remarks on the Book of Daniel " (Boston, 1844) ; " Life of John Bunyan " ; " The Design of Baptism, viewed in its Relation to the Christian Life " (1851) ; " The Work claim- ing to be the Constitution of the Holy Apostles, including the Canons, revised from the Greek"; and " Infant Baptism an Invention of Man " (Phila- delphia, 1863); together with a large number of sermons, essays, and contributions to reviews.

CHASE, Lucien B., author, b. in Vermont, 9 Aug., 1817; d. 14 Dec, 1864. He removed to Clarksville, Tenn., and served as a representative in congress from 1 Dec, 1845, till 3 March, 1849, declining a re-election. He published a "History of the Polk Administration" (New York, 1850).

CHASE, Philander, P. E. bishop, b. in Cornish, N. H., 14 Dec, 1775; d. at Jubilee college, 111., 20 Sept., 1852. He was graduated at Dartmouth in 1795. Although of Congregational origin and training, he was led into the Episcopal