Joseph Titus Chase and Elizabeth Adrain

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Husband Joseph Titus Chase ^{1 2}

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           Born: 17 Jun 1829 - Titusville, Crawford Co, PA 1 2
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           Died: 26 Feb 1897 2
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         Father: Joseph L. Chase (1799-1879) 3
         Mother: Susan Jane Titus (1801-1878) 4

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       Marriage: Mar 1853 1 2

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Wife Elizabeth Adrain ^{1 2}

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           Died: Oct 1874 2
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         Father: Robert Adrain (      -Bef 1885) 1 2
         Mother: 

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Children

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1 M Herbert Adrain Chase ²

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           Died: Aft 1898
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         Spouse: Rose V. Shank (      -      ) 2

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2 F Jeannette Marion Chase ²

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           Died: Aft 1898
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         Spouse: Charles Edwin Martin (      -      ) 2

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3 F Fannie Lanman Chase ²

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           Died: Aft 1898
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         Spouse: Benjamin F. Kraffert (      -      ) 2

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4 M Cornelius Wirt Chase ²

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         Spouse: Blanche Harley (      -      ) 2

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5 F Lizzie Adelaide Chase ²

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General Notes: Husband - Joseph Titus Chase

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He received preliminary instruction in the common school and was a student at Allegheny College in 1845 and 1846. When not at school, he was engaged in assisting his father in the store and in manufacturing and marketing lumber. In the month of December, 1847, he went to Meadville, PA, in the employ of Thorp & Gibson and John and James R. Dick, general merchants. In 1854 he was engaged in the wholesale and retail grocery trade with the firm of Finney, Chase & Co. In the fall of 1860 he was elected Prothonotary of Crawford County, serving as such three years. Previous to 1860 he was a member of the Council of the then borough of Meadville, also Deputy Recorder, Deputy Treasurer and Deputy Register of Crawford County. In November, 1864, he removed to Titusville from Meadville and after his return to Titusville was engaged in mercantile, lumber and oil producing businesses. In 1878 he was appointed Notary Public for a term of three years and was reappointed in 1881 for another term. In 1867 he was a member of the Legislature of Pennsylvania. In April, 1861, he assisted in getting up a company of vol­unteers for the war, which company was known as Company F, Ninth Penn­sylvania Reserves. In June, July, and August, 1863, he served as an emer­gency man and was Quartermaster of Fifty-eighth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and was present at the capture of John Morgan and his command in Ohio, July 25, 1863. [HCC 1885, 1091]

When a young man he was a clerk in his father's store, and later assisted in the lumber business. In December, 1847, he went to Meadville, and was a clerk there several years. He was elected prothonotary of Crawford county in 1860, and held the office three years. He returned to Titusville in 1864, and in 1866 he was elected to the legislature, and served in Harrisburg one year. He was been engaged in the oil business and in other enterprises. He was notary public about twenty years.

1 Editor, The History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner Beers & Co., 1885), Pg 1091.

2 Samuel P. Bates, LL.D., Our County and Its People, A Historical and Memorial Record of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (W. A. Fergusson & Co., 1899), Pg 741.

3 Samuel P. Bates, LL.D., Our County and Its People, A Historical and Memorial Record of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (W. A. Fergusson & Co., 1899), Pg 295, 740.

4 Samuel P. Bates, LL.D., Our County and Its People, A Historical and Memorial Record of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (W. A. Fergusson & Co., 1899), Pg 295, 741.