CHASE, Lyman B.

CHASE, COLE, MEAD, SPENCER, WINTERS, MYERS, FOSTER, NEWMAN

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 1/18/2014 at 21:32:03

Biography ~ Lyman B. Chase

"Biographical and Historical Record of
Ringgold and Decatur Counties, Iowa"
(Lewis Publishing Company (1887)), pp. 661-62:

LYMAN B. CHASE, Garden Grove Township, was born August 30, 1811, in Tompkins County, New York. When he was five years old his parents ALVIN and RUTH (COLE) CHASE, moved to Putnam County, New York their native place. They had twelve years before purchased heavy timber land in that then new country and there they made a farm. They lived in Putnam County until his mother died, in 1832, aged fifty years. The farther soon after with his family moved to Dutches County, New York, where he died, in 1853, aged seventy-five years. They had a family of twelve children; all lived to maturing of whom six are still living. They were active, industrious people of good habits, leaders in society, liberal Christians and patriotic citizens, and their children have done credit to their training. LYMAN B., the subject of this sketch, was married to ELIZABETH MEAD, in Pawling, Dutchess County, New York, in 1833. Her parent, DANIEL and SUSAN (SPENCER) MEAD, were natives of the same county. She was twenty and he twenty-two years of age. The purchased a farm of sixty acres in Pawling, New York, where they sold out, and removed to their present location. They now have purchased a farm of sixty acres in Pawling, New York, when they resided twenty years, when they sold out, and removed to their present location. They now have a farm of 300 acres, productive, and in a good neighborhood, where they have lived thirty-one years. They reared a family of twelve children, all of whom lived to maturity – ABEL E., the eldest, is treasure of Decatur County; ALVIN H., pastor of the Christian church, at Winterset, Iowa. They were volunteer veterans in the Union army, and did well their part in suppressing the rebellion; D. MILLARD CHASE is a farmer of Decatur County; EUGENE L. is cashier of Weldon Bank; CYRUS B. is a teacher in a high school in Leavenworth County, Kansas; ULRIC Z. CHASE, the youngest, twenty-six years old, lives with his parents and manages the farm. The three surviving daughters are residents of Decatur County, and have interesting families – MARY E. WINTERS, SARAH A. MYERS and JOSEPHINE C. FOSTER. The three deceased are PHEVE J. MORGAN, lived to be forty-eight years old, and left a family of a husband and five children in Levenworth County, Kansas; RUTH A. NEWMAN died, aged thirty years, left a husband and two children, who live with their grandparents. Mr. and Mrs. CHASE have more than a score of grandchildren, and a dozen or more great-grandchildren, all active and intelligent. Being enterprising, active, temperate and intelligent they have kept pace with the times. They have seen more of the advancement of the arts and science then is often allotted to one married couple. They are noted for strict integrity, and are liberal members of society. In politics, Republican.

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