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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