David Chase Biography


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DAVID CHASE. A well known and enterprising representative of the 
agricultural interests of Spink county is David Chase, who owns and 
operates one hundred and sixty acres of land on section 11, Great Bend 
township. He is a native of Columbia county, New York, born June 10, 
1817. His father, Joseph Chase, was twice married, and our subject was 
the second child of the three children born of the second union. He 
served an apprenticeship to the carpenter's trade under the direction 
of his father, and afterward followed the painter's trade. Subsequently 
he worked on the farm for a short time and then engaged in 
blacksmithing. After working at the mason's trade in Schenectady, New 
York, for a time, he removed to Columbia county, Wisconsin, in 1842, 
and there followed contracting and building for a year and a half. 
Returning then to New York on the 7th of April, 1847, he enlisted for 
service in the Mexican war, and was with General Worth's division at 
Cerro Gordo, Molino del Rey, Churubusco, Chepultapec and the capture of 
the City of Mexico, after which the command went to Teticka, Mexico, 
and on the 28th of August, 1848, received an honorable discharge. 

Returning to Wisconsin, Mr. Chase began contracting and making railroad 
gradings. Again he entered his country's service when the rebellion in 
the sooth threatened the destruction of the Union, enlisting in 1862, 
as a member of Company K, Thirty-second Wisconsin Infantry. He aided in 
raising that company, and going to the front participated in the siege 
of Vicksburg, the battle of Jobnsboro and finally the Atlanta campaign. 
While in the south he was bitten by a poisonous insect and was thereby 
disabled from marching northward. This ended his campaigning and he was 
discharged in 1865. 

In 1871 Mr. Chase went to Polk county, Nebraska, where in addition to 
farming he also engaged in contracting and building. In 1880 he removed 
to Yankton, Dakota, and in the spring, making his way northward, 
settled on a farm near Redfield, where he carried on agricultural 
pursuits for ten years. In 1891 he came to his present home in Spink 
county. Here he controls about five quarter-sections of land and is 
extensively and successfully engaged in farming and stock-raising. His 
systematic business methods, his sound judgment and honorable dealing 
have won him a well deserved prosperity and he ranks among the 
substantial citizens of the community. 

In 1858 Mr. Chase married Miss Mary A. Briggs, who was born January 20, 
1839. Five children have been born to them: Clifford J., now deceased; 
Viola L., wife of L. Lock, a resident of Washington; Lydia, wife of N. 
O. Powers; Ernest and William, who have both passed away. Mr. Chase is 
widely and favorably known in the county of his adoption. His life has 
been one of activity in business, and at all times his career has been 
characterized by fidelity and honorable purpose. He is as true to-day 
to his duties of citizenship as when he followed the stars and stripes 
through the land of Montezuma and upon the battle fields of the south.