Excerpt from The Life and Public Services of Salmon Portland Chas: United States Senator and Governor of Ohio; Secretary of the Treasury, and Chief-Justice of the United States
Family names and family history are of no political, and perhaps even of small social importance, in a republic, where, it is said, "worth makes the man." But it is nevertheless a fine impulse of our nature that prompts us to pride in an honorable ancestry. That of Mr. Chase was neither royal nor noble, but through many generations it has been marked for the highest qualities that can distinguish men - temperance, probity, religious life and intellectual strength.
He was ninth in descent from Thomas Chase of Chesham, England, and sixth from Aquila Chase, horn in England, shipmaster, who settled in the town of Newbury, Massachusetts, about 1640. The fifth son of this Aquila - who was second of his name, and in the fourth generation from Thomas Chase of Chesham - was Moses, born 1663. Moses Chase married Anne Follansbee, and became the father of ten children, the two elder of whom were Moses and Daniel, twins, born September, 1685. Daniel married Sarah March, in 1706, and became the father of ten children also, Samuel being the first. Samuel married Mary Dudley of Sutton, and removed to Cornish. He had nine children, the third of whom, Dudley, was born in 1730, and in 1753 was married to Alice Corbett of Mendon. Dudley and Alice Chase had fourteen children, and eight of them were sons who attained to the years of manhood: Simeon, Salmon, Ithamar, Baruch, Corbett, Heber, Dudley, and Philander, and all of these arrived at more or less distinction in their several walks of life.
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