1890 Buchanan and Delaware Counties History pgs. 473-474
JAMES D. CHASE. In the Empire State of the North, that state which has
furnished so much of the brains and capital
to develop the rising commonwealths of the West, the
subject of this sketch was born, and to that state he traces his ancestry back
as far, at least as the third generation. It is safe to say that
his great-grandparents were among the early settlers of
the locality where they resided in York State, if, indeed, they were
not natives of that state. His grandparents, at least, were born
there and there always resided. These were, in the paternal
line, Daniel and Sallie Chase, and in the maternal line, James and Elizabeth
McCall. His parents were also born in New York, and were there reared and
married. They were Ezra F. and Naomi (McCall) Chase, and the
parents resided in New York until 1853, when they came to
Iowa, taking up their residence in Yankee
settlement, Delaware county, where the
father procured government land, on which he settled,
and which he improved, spending the remainder of his life as a farmer in
that community. He accumulated some means, lived well and
died in comfort. He is pleasantly remembered by his old
friends and associates, and many of the
older settlers of the county also have occasion to remember him,
for, in addition to his being
an upright, useful citizen,
he served his adopted
county as superintendent of schools, in
which capacity his faithful labors were a source
of profit to the then rising generation. He died in 1880, at the age of sixty. The mother
survived him only five years, dying in 1885, in her seventieth year. Seven
children were born to Ezra F. and Naomi Chase, four of
whom reached maturity, and three of whom are now living. The eldest, Ezra
F., died at Baton Rouge, La., while in the Union army, being a member of Company
F, Twenty-seventh Iowa volunteer
infantry. The next were twins
that died unnamed. James D., the subject of this
notice, was the next. Naomi, the eldest daughter, is the wife of J. O. Tuttle,
a farmer residing in Reno county, Kans.; Flora H. is the wife of Wm. H. McKray, of Greeley, Delaware county; and Cora B. died in
infancy.
James D.,
whose personal history here follows, was born July 19, 1846. He was a mere lad when his parents
moved to Delaware county, and his youth was
therefore spent where he has passed his maturer
years, in Honey Creek and Elk townships. He resided with his father till he
reached his twenty-fifth year, engaged in the pursuits of the farm, and
receiving in his earlier years the rudiments of a fair English education. He took
a gallant part in the late Civil war, serving in the Twenty-seventh Iowa volunteer
infantry until the close of the war, when he was honorably discharged. He
purchased the place where he now lives in Elk township
in 1876, and, marrying the following year, settled on it and has there since resided.
He owns four hundred and thirty acres of land, most of which is in section 17,
on which his homestead is located, and all of which is in cultivation, being
either in plow land, hay land or pasturage. He has given considerable attention
to live stock and has also been interested in the dairy business, being a
member of the Greeley Creamery Company He is an intelligent, progressive farmer
and a splendid representative of the better class of his calling.
Mr. Chase
married February 11, 1877, the lady whom he chose to bear him
companionship through life being Miss Sarah J. Hindal,
then residing in Honey Creek township, Delaware county.
She was born in Green county, Wis., February 2,
1858, and is
a daughter of John an Susannah (Crall) Hindal, the former of whom was a native of Germany and the latter a
native of Ohio. Mrs.
Chase parents came to Iowa, settling in Delaware county, in
1865. The father died in Wright county,
this state, the surviving mother being now a resident of Wisconsin. Mr. and Mrs.Chase
have had four children born to them, as follows-E. Frank, born January 24, 1878;
Ina B., born January 27, 1879; E. Ross, born May 26, 1881, and John J., born
April 17, 1887.
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