Portrait and biographical album of Ingham and Livingston counties, Michigan, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the counties ... the governors of the state and of all the presidents of the United States.

PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL ALBUM.

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There Mr. Cardinal died and the widow came with
her family to Clinton County, Mich., where she
lived until death called her hence. Of her ten
children four are now living, namely: Caroline,
who is Mrs. Isaac Brown; Maggie, Mrs. Dean;
Sarah, Mrs. Bradley, and Olive, Mrs. Bradley.
He of whom we write is a public-spirited man,
who has ever taken an intelligent interest in the
political movements of his adopted land, and has
attached himself to the Republican party. He has
never sought official position, but wields a strong
influence among the men of his party and is
looked upon as a leader of thought. The early
experiences of his father's family in their first
years in this State are full of incidents of interest,
and he might recount many tales of hardship and
deprivation. Upon their first coming here they
were at one time destitute of everything in the
eatable line except potatoes and they lived for an
entire week upon baked potatoes without salt.
OHN H. CHASE, A. B., A. M., LL. B. Among
the citizens of Lansing who are influential,
in public offices and in business circles, we
are pleased to present the portrait and biography of Mr. Chase, who is engaged in the realestate and insurance business. For the past four
years he has been Justice of the Peace and his
term of office expired May 4, 1891.
Mr. Chase was born August 5, 1846, in the
township of Bedford, Calhoun County, this State,
two miles from Battle Creek. His honored father,
Daniel S. Chase, was born in Charleston, N. Y.,
and his grandfather, Benjamin Chase, was from
Rhode Island and at an early time removed to
Chase Hill on Holland Patent, forty miles from
Buffalo, where he made his home for many years.
They belonged to the old Rhode Island Chase
family and our subject is in the eighth generation
from Aquilla Chase of Colonial fame.
Daniel S. Chase was a natural mechanic and
early took up the trades of carpenter and mill

wright. He was a man of progressive ideas and
easily developed his carpenter work, so as to undertake the business of contractor and builder, and at
the time of his death was the owner of both a sawmill and a gristmill. Numerous mills have been
favored by his work, as he put in Stanton wheels,
both horizontal and upright, in many places. He
moved to Baltimore, Barry County, this State, in
1854 and bought a tract of land in the township
of Baltimore, where he put up a sawmill on Cedar
Creek. In 1859 he erected a gristmill, which he
had in operation at the time of his death, October
20, 1859.
The lady who became the wife of Daniel S.
Chase bore the maiden name of Lucy Y. Hicks,
and was the daughter of William Hicks, of Battle.
Creek who came to that place in 1835. HeI three
children are, our subject, Franklin M., now in
Boyne City, and Mrs. Francelia M., wife of Alexander Edmunds of Baltimore Township, Barry
County. Our subject left home soon after his
father's death and lived with Mr. I-icks of Calhoun County, but the mother remained at the old
home until 1863 when she went to Johnstown,
Barry County and in the year of 1866 she removed to Olivet. Her son John resided with her
in that village until 1874, receiving his education
and being graduated at the college there during
that year, receiving the degree of A. B. Later he
took a post-graduate course and afterward entered
the law department of the University of Michigan
at Ann Arbor, and earned the additional degrees
of A. M. and L. L. B. After this he was for a
time in Detroit and in Battle Creek.
While in Battle Creek, Mr. Chase met with an
accident from an unruly horse and had his knee
badly injured, which caused him to be laid up for
two years. When he was able to be about again
he took up his trade of carpenter and came to
Lansing in 1882. Here he followed his trade until
1887, when he was elected to the office of Justice
of the Peace. He was a candidate on the Republican ticket, and although the wards were Democratic he had a large majority of votes against
two other candidates and could have had the reelection, but refused to consider it. Since the expiration of his office, he has been engaged in the