Kenosha County WI Archives Biographies.....Chase, Emily 
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Author: Western Historical Society ((1879))

    MRS. EMILY CHASE, florist; was born in Pike, now Wyoming Co., N. Y., in
December, 1835; maiden name, Miss Emily Root. Married Mr. James M. Chase in
October, 1849, in Pike, Wyoming Co., N. Y. Came to Wisconsin in October, 1849,
and located in Kenosha. Has had five children, three now living-Jennie, Chester
B. and Clarence. Members of Methodist Church. Mrs. Chase and husband, Mr. James
Chase, are prominent florists, and are quite successful in their business,
having large and pleasant grounds, with every facility for growing the rarest
and finest flowers; their plants are healthy and luxuriant; one especially, a
century plant, merits particular attention, and is a subject of curiosity to all
lovers of the beautiful and rare; this magnificent plant was a gift of Mr.
Ludwig, of Milwaukee, in the year 1855, it being then about thirty-seven years
old; Mrs. Chase has nurtured this plant for twenty-four years, and is, of
course, very much attached to it; the botanists say it will probably bloom this
year, 1879; the height of the plant is now about fourteen feet, and the lower
leaves are eight feet long, the trunk being about three feet through; the entire
weight is estimated to be about six thousand pounds; the whole plant is
luxuriant in the extreme, the leaves coated with the bloom of health; it is the
genuine American century plant (Agave).

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THE HISTORY OF RACINE AND KENOSHA COUNTIES, WISCONSIN,

CONTAINING A HISTORY OF EACH COUNTY, ITS EARLY SETTLEMENT, GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT,
RESOURCES, ETC., AN EXTENSIVE AND MINUTE SKETCH OF ITS CITIES, THEIR
IMPROVEMENTS, INDUSTRIES, MANUFACTORIES, CHURCHES, SCHOOLS, SOCIETIES, ETC.,
ETC., WAR RECORD, BIOGRAPHICAL 8KBTCHES, PORTRAITS OF PROMINENT MEN AND EARLY
SETTLERS, VIEWS OF BUILDINGS, ETC., ETC.; ALSO HISTORY OF WISCONSIN, COSTITUTION
OF THE UNITED STATES AND OF WI8CON8IN, CONDEN8ED AB8TRACT OF LAWS OF WI8CONSIN,
MISCELLANEOUS, ETC., ETC.

ILLUSTRATED.
CHICAGO: WESTERN HISTORICAL COMPANY.
MDCCCLXXIX.
((1879))

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