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CHASE, George, lawyer, was lorn in Portland Me., Dec. 29, 1849; son of David T. and Martha E. (Haynes) Chase. He was prepared for college in the Portland schools and was graduated at Yale in 1870 as valedictorian. Three years later he finished a course at the Columbia law-school, at the same time being principal of a classical school in New York city. From 1873 to 1875 he was an instructor in Columbia college; from 1875 to 1878 he was assistant professor of municipal law ; from 1878 to 1891 was professor of criminal law, torts, evidence, pleading and practice. In 1891 he re- signed and founded the New York law school in New York city, of which he became dean. He published : Bhtckstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England. Abridged, with Notes and References to American Decisions (1876;3ded., <1890): The Ready Legal Adviser (1881) and an edition of Stepiien's Digest of the Laii' of Evi- dence (ISSQ). He also contributed to Johnson's Universal Cyclopcedia.

CHASE, George Colby, educator, was born in Unity, Me., March 15, 1844; son of Joseph and Jane Chase (Dyer) Chase. He was prepared for college at the Maine state seminary and was graduated at Bates college with the class of 1868. He taught scliool at New Hampton, N. H., 1868 -'69 ; was tutor in Bates college and student at Bates theological school during 1870, when he took a graduate student's course at Harvard, and in 1871 became professor of rhetoric and English literature in Bates college. He was married June 12, 1872, to Emma Francette Millett. On June 27, 1894, he was elected president of Bates college, to succsed the Rev. Dr. Oren Burbank Cheney.

CHASE, Harry, artist, was born at Woodstock, Vt., in 1853. He was educated in his native town, and pursued his art studies in Europe. He went to the Hague, where he was a pupil of Hendrik-Willem Mesdag, and afterwards studied at the Munich academy under the instruction of "Wilhelm von Kaulbach. On his return to the United States he opened a studio in New York city. In 1883 he was elected an associate of the National academy of design, where in 1885 he won the three Hallgarten prizes of $300, $200, and $100, for his yexv York — Xorfh River. Among his paintings are : Low Tide on the Welsh Coast (1878) ; Herring Fishers of Scheveningen (1880); Dutch Boats at Anchor (1881) ; Bringing the Fish Ashore (1882) ; Summer Morning on the French Coast (1883) ; Battery Park in Neiv York (1884), and Rising Tide on the Dutch Coast (1885).

CHASE, Ira, clergyman, was born in Stratton, Yt., Oct. 5, 1793 ; son of Isaac and Sarah (Bond) Chase. He was graduated at Middlebury college in 1814; and in September, 1817, completed his theo-

logical course at the Andover seminary. In the same month he was ordained a Baptist minister at the session of the Boston association in Danvers, Mass. He then served as a missionary in the west- ern part of Virginia, and in 1818 became asso- ciated with Dr. WiUiam Staughton, in organizing the first Baptist theological institution, at Phil- adelphia, Pa., of which he was made professor of language and Biblical literature. This institution was removed to Washington, D.C., in 1822, and incorporated with Columbian college. In 1825 he resigned his chair to accept that of bibUcal theol- ogy in the Newton theological seminary which he was instrumental in founding. From 1836 to 1845 he was professor of ecclesiastical history in the same institution, resigning in the latter year from active work. He is the author of : Remarks on the Book of Daniel (1844) ; The Design of Bap- tism (1851) : Life of John Bunyan ; The Work Claiming to be the Co)istitution of the Holy Apostles. Licluding the Canons. Revised, from the Greek (18&S), and Ljfant Bapitism an Livention of Man (1863). He died in Newton Centre, Mass., Nov. 1, 1864.

CHASE, Ira J., governor of Indiana, was born in Munroe county. New York, Dec. 7, 1834. At the age of fifteen he entered Milan (Ohio) semin- ary, where he remained two years. Then after studying two years at Medina, N. Y., he went to Chicago, 111., obtaining employment first as clerk in a store, and later as a teacher, re- maining in the latter profession until 1860. He joined the Union ai'my in 1861, and served until March, 1863, when he left his regiment on account of broken health. In 1864 he became a min- ister in the church of the Disciples of Christ, and served nineteen years a s a pastor in various leading churches in Indiana. In 1886 he was chosen department chap- lain of the G. A. R. of Indiana. In 1888 he was elected lieutenant - governor of Indiana, with Gen. Alvin P. Hovey for governor. In 1888 he was elected department commander, G. A. R., of the department of Indiana, and in 1889 was again elected department chaplain by acclamation. On the death of Governor Hovey, in 1891, he became governor ex-officio. By the request of the family of the deceased, Governor Chase preached the funeral discourse of his predecessor. His term expired Jan. 1, 1893. He died May 11, 1895.

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