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Chase, Frederick, 1883-1977

 

Dates

  • Existence: 1883 - 1977

Biography

Frederick Chase was born on April 9, 1883, in Hanover, New Hampshire. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1905, but stayed on to earn an A.M. in economics before entering Harvard Law School from which he graduated in 1909. He then joined the the Boston firm of Hutchins & Wheeler, becoming a partner in 1918. He continued to practice corporate, probate and tax law until his retirement in 1938. A resident of Milton, MA since 1910, he served on the Board of Public Welfare and was elected clerk of the Milton Savings Bank, of which he was also a trustee, and later, its president. He became a trustee of Pinkerton Academy in Derry, NH, in the thirties and from 1929, was president of the Dartmouth Secretaries' Association, as well as secretary and executive committee member of the Class of 1905. Frederick Chase died on March 16, 1977 at the age of 93.

Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:

Abatements made on taxes of Hanover

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 786202
Mss 786202
Date(s): 1786-03-02
Abstract

Abatements made on taxes of Hanover according to vote of Court giving abatement for each year, 1776-1783, aggregating 1144 pounds 1 shilling 1 pence. List of Hanover taxes outstanding amount to 1757 pounds 6 shillings 7 pence. Creator unknown.

Agreement with James Murch re. building of a mill

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 000181
Mss 000181
Date(s): undated
Abstract

The committee appointed to contract for the building of a mill has made an agreement with James Murch (1738-1813) and asks the proprietors to have it recorded, signed by Timothy Smith, Isaac Bridgman (d. 1781), John Ordway (d. 1806) and Edward Freeman (1737-1813).

Building of School House in Hanover

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 808662.1
Mss 808662.1
Date(s): 1808-12-12
Abstract

Document addressed to "The Inhabitants of the School District Number One in Hanover," giving description in full of location and plan for building school house, signed by Benjamin J. Gilbert (1764-1849), Mills Olcott (1774-1845), Bessoni Dewey, Samuel Aldens and Richard Lang (1769-1840).

Edmund Ezra Day letter

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 938266
Mss 938266
Date(s): 1938-04-16
Abstract

In English.

Edmund Ezra Day letter

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 940627
Mss 940627
Date(s): 1940-11-27
Abstract

In English.

Frances Folsom Cleveland Preston letter

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 942329
Mss 942329
Date(s): 1942-05-29
Abstract

In English.

Frederick Chase papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-1430
MS-1430
Date(s): 1881 to 1925
Scope and Contents The collection contains correspondence, printed matter, photocopies, typescripts and manuscript drafts comprising the research conducted by Frederick Chase for his History of Dartmouth College and the Town of Hanover, published in 1891. Also includes additional documents gathered by John King Lord in continuing Chase's project and published as volume 2 of the history Papers contain notes and correspondence of Arthur Fairbanks who served as editor. Some of Lord's research was also used in...

Frederick Chase papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-538
MS-538
Date(s): 1860 to 1971
Abstract

Frederick Chase (1883-1977), lawyer. Dartmouth Class of 1905. The collection contains correspondence with his mother, Sarah T. Chase, several diaries, as well as the docket book for his law firm, Chase, Hartley, and Coleman. Chase's collection of autographs and an index for the collection is also included.

John Jay letter

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 803104
Mss 803104
Date(s): 1803-01-04
Abstract

In English.

Minutes of Meeting regarding Highways

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 794290
Mss 794290
Date(s): 1794-04
Abstract

Minutes of meeting of selectmen regarding highways and list of proprietors who are to allow acreage for same. Creator unknown.

Notice to Jedediah Baldwin from School Committee

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 808628
Mss 808628
Date(s): 1808-11-28
Abstract

Call for a meeting addressed to Jedidiah Baldwin (1768-1849) for the purpose of raising funds for a school house, signed by John Wheelock (1754-1817) and Lemuel Dow Jr., selectmen.

Notice to proprietors of Hanover

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 805581
Mss 805581
Date(s): 1805-10-31
Abstract

Notice to proprietors of Hanover to meet at Benjamin Hatch' Inn to take up town business an settle line between Canaan and Hanover. Votes to assess each proprietor $ 4 to be used in action against Canaan.

Notice to the Selectmen of Hanover from Bezaleel Woodward

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 788301
Mss 788301
Date(s): 1788-05-01
Abstract

As County is taxed 300 pounds, Woodward addressees (selectmen) are order to collect 22 pounds and 8 shillings from Hanover, signed by Bezaleel Woodward (1745-1804), county treasurer.

Notification of a meeting

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 807416
Mss 807416
Date(s): 1807-07-16
Abstract Notification from the Hanover Selectmen to Jedediah Baldwin (1768-1811) directing him to notify the voters of school district no. 1 of a meeting to be held August 10, signed by Joseph Curtiss, Augustus Storrs and John Wheelock (1754-1817). Filed with Mss 807431, a statement of the voters of school district no. 1 whom Baldwin has notified of the meeting to be held August 10. Acknowledged before Justice of the Peace Benjamin J. Gilbert (1764-1849), August 6, 1807, signed by Jedediah Baldwin...

Order from Selectmen to Nathaniel Benton

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 781213.1
Mss 781213.1
Date(s): 1781-03-13
Abstract

Order from the selectmen of Hanover to Nathaniel Benton to collect 54 pounds to buy wheat flour to store in Hanover, includes list of towns people and amounts they are to be taxes, signed by Jonathan Freeman and others.

Orders to the Selectmen and Officers of the Town of Hanover

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 782614
Mss 782614
Date(s): 1782-11-14
Abstract

Orders from the State of New Hampshire to collect 54 pounds 11 shilling, 6 pence from free-holders in Hanover as Hanover's part pf 500 pound assessment, signed by Sam Emerson (1736-1819), Grafton County Treasurer.

Receipt N.H. State of Ebenezer Green

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 778401
Mss 778401
Date(s): 1778-07-01
Abstract

Receipt for Hanover for 12 pounds, 190 five pence and certificate from selectmen of 22 soldiers in Continental Army whose poll tax to the State amounted to 335 for year 1775, signed by Nicholas Gilman (1755-1814), treasurer and received from Ebenezer Green.

Vote on highway passageways

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 780311
Mss 780311
Date(s): 1780-05-11
Abstract

Votes on highways regarding allowance to proprietors thru whose land the highway must be made, with special reference to the land of Capt. E. Freeman. Creator unknown.