Biographical Sketch of C. B. Chase, St. Joseph, Buchanan County, MO

>From "History of Buchanan County, Missouri, Published 1881, St. Joseph
Steam Printing Company, Printers, Binders, Etc., St. Joseph, Missouri.
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C. B. Chase, builder of engines and general iron worker.  Of the pro-
ficient and skilled machinists in the northwest, Mr. Chase occupies a
prominent position.  He is a native of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and
was born March 5, 1848.  When sixteen years of age, he went to Paw-
tucket, Rhode Island, where he learned his trade in the establishment
of Nat Colyer, after which he migrated to Syracuse, New York.  For
three years he was in the rivet department of Frazier & Byrnes, and
resided in Syracuse seven years and then removed to Ft. Wayne, Indiana
and after a ten years' sojourn came to Ottumwa, Iowa, residing there
one year, thence to St. Joseph, Missouri and for a time was foreman
for Burnside, Crowther & Rogers, and afterward was one of the Lincoln
Manufacturing Company.  In August, 1880, he became one of the firm of
Chase, Riblet & Co.  This co-partnership existed until the spring of
1881, when Mr. Chase embarked in trade alone.  He is a close observing
man and combines the practical with the theoretical.  In 1864, he en-
listed in Company E, First Maine Heavy Hartillery, passing through the
usual routine of warfare, and was honorably discharged in 1865.  His
wife, who was formerly Miss Elizabeth Warner, he married in 1869.  By
this union they have five children:  Inez, Frankie, Charles, William
and Leo.

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