Names Recorded on Death List for Week Ending 15 May 1886; Philadelphia Co., PA Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Dennis Gries Copyright. All Rights Reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ********************************************************* Philadelphia Inquirer May 15, 1886 OBITUARY. Names Recorded on the Death List of the City in the Last Week. Edwin T. Chase, the well-known lawyer of this city, died on Saturday morning last, at his residence, No. 103 South Thirty-fourth street, of neuralgia of the stomach, in the sixty-fourth year of his age. He was born in Newburyport, Mass., and came to this city with his father in 1830. He studied law with J. Altamont Phillips, and was admitted to the bar in 1849. Mr. Chase was Deputy Prothonotary and Commissioner of Bail from 1843 to 1854, and Chief Real Estate Deputy under Sheriff Kern. He was a candidate for Prothonotary on the Republican ticket in 1856, receiving between 7000 and 8000 votes. He was appointed Assessor of Internal Revenue for the Fifth District of Pennsylvania in 1862 by President Lincoln, and served until Andrew Johnson's administration. In 1867 Judge Cadwalader appointed Mr. Chase Register in Bankruptcy, which position he held at the time of his death. Mr. Chase was a prominent Mason, and served actively with Company F. First Regiment, from June to August, 1863, and took part in several skirmishes. J. Harvey Smith, aged forty-two years, a druggist of Ashland, Pa., died suddenly on Saturday at the Pennsylvania Hospital for the insane, where he was under treatment for softening of the brain. Thomas Forrest, seventy years old, at No. 2105 Evergreen street, and Joseph Gibson, seventy years, No. 117 Callowhill street, a veteran of the war with Mixico and the rebellion, died suddenly on Saturday. Henry B. Hammel, who has been a member of the Tebple Theatre orchestra since its organization, died on Saturday morning. The funeral will take place to-morrow morning.