Denver County, History of Colorado, BIOS: CHASE, Charles A. (published 1918)
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"History of Colorado", edited by Wilbur Fisk Stone, published by The S. J. 
Clarke Publishing Co. (1918)  Vol. II

p. 91



CHARLES A. CHASE.

	Charles A. Chase, a mining engineer of Denver, was born in 
Hartford, Wisconsin, November 4, 1876, a son of Albert E. and Emma J. 
(Jones) Chase. The father is a native of Vermont and the mother of 
Utica, New York, her father being Thomas Jones of that state. Albert E. 
Chase was a mining engineer and followed the profession for an extended 
period but is now living retired. A daughter of the family is Mrs. 
Porter J. Preston, now living in Denver.

	In the acquirement of his education Charles A. Chase spent three 
years as a pupil in the high school of Georgetown, Colorado, and 
afterward attended and graduated from Central high school of 
Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1893. Subsequently he entered the University 
of Colorado, from which he was graduated in 1898 with the Ph. B. 
degree. The following year he was made assayer for the Liberty Bell 
Gold Mining Company at Telluride, Colorado, and is still connected with 
the company, of which he Is now the manager. He is also general manager 
of the Mogul Mining Company of Terry, South Dakota, and since 1912 has 
been consulting engineer to the Maxwell Land Grant Company of Raton, 
New Mexico. He is manager for the Colorado molybdenum department of the 
Primos Exploration Company, with mines at Empire, Colorado. He is a 
member of the American Institute of Mining Engineers and served as 
chairman of its Colorado section. He is also a member of the Colorado 
Scientific Society, of which he was the president in 1917; he belongs 
to the Mining and Metallurgical Society of America.

	In 1901 Mr. Chase was united in marriage to Miss Ruth Hamilton, a 
daughter of Henry and Anna (Sanborn) Hamilton, of Washington, D. C. 
They have become parents of four children: Hamilton Chase, fifteen 
years of age; Elizabeth; David; and Charles H. The eldest three are in 
school.

	Politically Mr. Chase is a republican. He is a member of the 
Colorado Chi Chapter. Sigma Alpha Epsilon, at the University of 
Colorado and he belongs to the University Club of Denver.