YALE COLLEGE, CLASS OF 1817
GEORGE CHASE, the eldest child of Philander Chase (Dartmouth Coll. 1796) and Mary (Fay) Chase, was born on December 9, 1797, in Albany, New York, where his father was a teacher in the Academy. In 1798 Mr. Chase was admitted to Deacon's orders in the Episcopal Church, and for the next few years he was stationed at Poughkeepsie. When he removed to New Orleans in 1805, his son was left under the care of an uncle, Judge Dudley Chase (Dartmouth 1791), of Randolph, Vermont. In 1811 the father returned to New England, becoming rector of Christ Church, Hartford, and ultimately a Bishop, and the son entered the Episcopal academy in Cheshire. He came to Yale in the last term of Sophomore year.
After graduation he studied law with his uncle in Randolph, and in July, 1821, married Eliza Grover, of Bethel, a town about five miles to the southward, where he soon after began practice.
He also became known as a contributor to the New York Mirror, and was encouraged by Major Noah, George P. Morris, and others to think that a future lay before him in that direction. Meantime, however, he had become a victim of intemperate habits.
In 1828 he left his wife and two young daughters to go to New York City, and was never again heard of.
His wife died at the house of a daughter in Wisconsin in 1862.
—Franklin Bowditch Dexter, Biographical Notices of Graduates of Yale College (New Haven, CT, 1913), pp. 17–18.
GEORGE CHASE, the eldest child of Philander Chase (Dartmouth Coll. 1796) and Mary (Fay) Chase, was born on December 9, 1797, in Albany, New York, where his father was a teacher in the Academy. In 1798 Mr. Chase was admitted to Deacon's orders in the Episcopal Church, and for the next few years he was stationed at Poughkeepsie. When he removed to New Orleans in 1805, his son was left under the care of an uncle, Judge Dudley Chase (Dartmouth 1791), of Randolph, Vermont. In 1811 the father returned to New England, becoming rector of Christ Church, Hartford, and ultimately a Bishop, and the son entered the Episcopal academy in Cheshire. He came to Yale in the last term of Sophomore year.
After graduation he studied law with his uncle in Randolph, and in July, 1821, married Eliza Grover, of Bethel, a town about five miles to the southward, where he soon after began practice.
He also became known as a contributor to the New York Mirror, and was encouraged by Major Noah, George P. Morris, and others to think that a future lay before him in that direction. Meantime, however, he had become a victim of intemperate habits.
In 1828 he left his wife and two young daughters to go to New York City, and was never again heard of.
His wife died at the house of a daughter in Wisconsin in 1862.
—Franklin Bowditch Dexter, Biographical Notices of Graduates of Yale College (New Haven, CT, 1913), pp. 17–18.
YALE COLLEGE, CLASS OF 1817
GEORGE CHASE, the eldest child of Philander Chase (Dartmouth Coll. 1796) and Mary (Fay) Chase, was born on December 9, 1797, in Albany, New York, where his father was a teacher in the Academy. In 1798 Mr. Chase was admitted to Deacon's orders in the Episcopal Church, and for the next few years he was stationed at Poughkeepsie. When he removed to New Orleans in 1805, his son was left under the care of an uncle, Judge Dudley Chase (Dartmouth 1791), of Randolph, Vermont. In 1811 the father returned to New England, becoming rector of Christ Church, Hartford, and ultimately a Bishop, and the son entered the Episcopal academy in Cheshire. He came to Yale in the last term of Sophomore year.
After graduation he studied law with his uncle in Randolph, and in July, 1821, married Eliza Grover, of Bethel, a town about five miles to the southward, where he soon after began practice.
He also became known as a contributor to the New York Mirror, and was encouraged by Major Noah, George P. Morris, and others to think that a future lay before him in that direction. Meantime, however, he had become a victim of intemperate habits.
In 1828 he left his wife and two young daughters to go to New York City, and was never again heard of.
His wife died at the house of a daughter in Wisconsin in 1862.
—Franklin Bowditch Dexter, Biographical Notices of Graduates of Yale College (New Haven, CT, 1913), pp. 17–18.
GEORGE CHASE, the eldest child of Philander Chase (Dartmouth Coll. 1796) and Mary (Fay) Chase, was born on December 9, 1797, in Albany, New York, where his father was a teacher in the Academy. In 1798 Mr. Chase was admitted to Deacon's orders in the Episcopal Church, and for the next few years he was stationed at Poughkeepsie. When he removed to New Orleans in 1805, his son was left under the care of an uncle, Judge Dudley Chase (Dartmouth 1791), of Randolph, Vermont. In 1811 the father returned to New England, becoming rector of Christ Church, Hartford, and ultimately a Bishop, and the son entered the Episcopal academy in Cheshire. He came to Yale in the last term of Sophomore year.
After graduation he studied law with his uncle in Randolph, and in July, 1821, married Eliza Grover, of Bethel, a town about five miles to the southward, where he soon after began practice.
He also became known as a contributor to the New York Mirror, and was encouraged by Major Noah, George P. Morris, and others to think that a future lay before him in that direction. Meantime, however, he had become a victim of intemperate habits.
In 1828 he left his wife and two young daughters to go to New York City, and was never again heard of.
His wife died at the house of a daughter in Wisconsin in 1862.
—Franklin Bowditch Dexter, Biographical Notices of Graduates of Yale College (New Haven, CT, 1913), pp. 17–18.
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