Biography: Winnebago County, Wisconsin: Otis F. CHASE

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History of northern Wisconsin: containing an account of its settlement,
growth, development, and resources, an extensive sketch of its counties,
cities, towns and villages, their improvements, industries, manufactories,
biographical sketches, portraits of prominent men and early settlers, views
of county seats, etc.
Chicago: Western Historical Co., 1881 p. 1140

Otis F. Chase, County Clerk; was born at Woodstock, Oxford Co., Maine, July
14, 1834; came to Oshkosh May 27, 1854; he was employed as a clerk in a
hardware store for five years, afterward until 1861 he taught school
winters and engaged in farming summers; in 1861 he enlisted in Co. D, 8th
Wis. Vol. Inft.; served in that regiment for two years and eight months,
when he was discharge on account of disability, and on the organization of
the 46th Wis. Vol. Inft. he was commissioned Second Lieutenant of C. K., of
that regiment, having been Corporal and Sergeant of his old company; he
mustered out of the service in the fall of 1865, and returned to Oshkosh
and was employed in the office of the U.S. Internal Revenue Assessor until
the fall of 1866, when he was elected County Clerk; he has been re-elected
every two years since that time.  Mr. Chase was married in the town of
Omro, Wis., Feb. 6, 1866, to Ellen E. Richards, a native of Ogdensburg,
N.Y.  They have one child- Leorr O.