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Chevy Chase

Comedian, Actor and Writer

Henry Seymour Chase

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of Chevy Chase — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 16 
  • Father:
  • Jarvis Brown Chase 
  • Mother:
  • Rhoda Corey Campbell   
  • Birth Date:
  • 6 Mar 1820 
  • Birth Location:
  • Saxtons River, Windham, Vermont 
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  • Death Date:
  • 12 Jan 1898 
  • Death Location:
  • Benton Station, St. Louis Co., Missouri 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Sarah Denison Haskell
  • Marriage Date:
  • 1 Jan 1845 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Woodstock, Windsor, Vermont 
  • Child:

  Charles Denison Chase (Ahnentafel No:8 )

  • Notes: 

  • Henry Chase was a dentist in St. Louis.

• Sources for Henry Seymour Chase

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A018530.
  • ² Federal Census, VT, Windsor County, 1850, Woodstock, Image 9 of 73.
  • ³ Federal Census, IA, Buchanan County, 1860, Byron, p. 142, Image 8 of 11.
  • ⁴ Missouri, Death Records, 1834-1910, Death certificate for Dr. Henry S. Chase.
  • ⁵ U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, SAR #15118, Application for Frederick B. Chase.
  • ⁶ Vermont, U.S., Vital Records, 1720-1908, Marriage record for Henry S Chase and Sarah D Haskell.
  • ⁷ Hayes, Lyman Simpson, History of the Town of Rockingham, Vermont . . .1754-1907 with Family Genealogies, Bellows Falls, Vermont: Published by the Town (1907), 611.
  • ⁸ Kirk, Edward C., ed., The Dental Cosmos: A Monthly Record for Dental Science, Vol. 40, Philadelphia: The S. S. White Dental Manufacturing Co. (1898), 233-234.
  • ⁹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 311.
  • ¹⁰ Thorpe, Burton Lee, Biographies of the Founders, Prominent Early Member and Ex-Presidents of the Missouri State Dental Association, St. Louis, Missouri: Ev. E. Carreras, Printer and Binder (1909), 45-48.

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