Lewis Chase (1830 - 1911)

Born 22 Jan 1830 in Turner, Androscoggin County, Maine

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Died 1911 at about age 80 in Rochester, Monroe County, New York

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Biography

Lewis Chase was born 22 January 1830 in Turner, Maine to Nathaniel Chase and Eunice Wescott Chase.

He married Elvina Gould Dyer about 1854 in Maine.

Lewis Chase served as Captain in the 14th Regiment, Maine Infantry, Company H.

Before 1875, Lewis and his family moved to Rochester, New York. He was a nurseryman - prominent in the nursery business and founder of the Chase Nursery Company.

Lewis Chase died in 1911 in Rochester, Monroe County, New York.

Burial: Riverside Cemetery Rochester Monroe County New York

Sources

Maine, Birth Records, 1621-1922, 1830, Androscoggin, 1830, C. "Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F492-J83 : 4 December 2014), Lewis Chase, 22 Jan 1830; citing Turner, Maine; FHL microfilm 9,763.

1850 United States Federal Census for Lewis Chase, Maine, Oxford, Buckfield.

U.S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865, 14th Regiment, Maine Infantry, Film Number M543 roll 4.

New York, State Census, 1875 for Louis Chase, Monroe, Rochester, Ward 10.

1880 United States Federal Census, New York, Monroe, Rochester, 095.

Seven generations of the descendants of Aquila and Thomas Chase, by Chase, John Carroll, 1849-1936; Chamberlain, George Walter, Derry, N.H., 1928.

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