CHASE, A. E.

CHASE, GAMMILL, CASH, POLLARD, VAN WERDEN

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 1/18/2014 at 20:57:09

Biography ~ A. E. Chase

"Biographical and Historical Record of
Ringgold and Decatur Counties, Iowa"
(Lewis Publishing Company (1887)), pp. 495-96:

A. E. CHASE, the present treasurer of Decatur County, is serving his second term, having first been elected in the fall of 1883, to succeed J. C. GAMMILL, and was re-elected in the fall of 1885. Mr. CHASE has been a resident of this county since May, 1885. He is a native of Putman County, New York, where he was born in 1834. In 1855 his father, LYMAN B. CHASE, immigrate with his family to Iowa, and settled on a farm at Garden Grove, where he still resides. August 2, 1862, our subject enlisted in Company D, Thirty-ninth Regiment, Iowa Infantry, and served until the close of the war. His regiment was attached to the Sixteenth Army Corps until the fall of 1864, when it was transferred to the Fifteenth Army Corps. Among the battles in which he participated was that of Parker’s Cross Roads, against General FORREST. This was a very exciting battle, occurring December 31, 1862. The union troops upon this occasion were largely outnumbered, but they repulsed the enemy, upon whom they inflicted a large loss. Twenty-two hundred stand of arms were picked up on the field after the retreat of the enemy, and 600 prisoners were captured. After this battle he command to which he belonged was stationed at Cornith, Mississippi until November 1863. He was engaged in the battle of Bentonville, North Carolina, thence to Washington, participation in the Grand Review. Mr. CHASE was in active duty during his whole term of service, having never been absent from his regiment for sickness or other cause. After the war Mr. CHASE was engaged in farming, until 1872, when he was elected clerk of the courts, and served three successive terms. He was then engaged in the drug business at Leon, and still continues his interest in that business, being a member of the firm of CASH & VAN WERDEN. Mrs. CHASE was formerly JULIA R. POLLARD, a native of Boston, Massachusetts. She was successful music-teacher many years.

Transcribed by Sara LeFleur, Decatur County Historial Society Musuem, January of 2014