. History of Steuben County, New York, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers. Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron von, 1730-1794. Nathaniel B. Chase was born at Liberty Corners, town of Cohocton, this county, Dec. 13, 1814. His father, Thomas C. Chase, was a native of Berkshire Co , Mass., and while a young man settled in Pompey, Onondaga Co., N. Y., where he married Malinda, daughter of Nathaniel Butts, of that place. She was a native of Canterbury, Conn., born in 1790, and with her parents removed first to Massachusetts,
. History of Steuben County, New York, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers. Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron von, 1730-1794. Nathaniel B. Chase was born at Liberty Corners, town of Cohocton, this county, Dec. 13, 1814. His father, Thomas C. Chase, was a native of Berkshire Co , Mass., and while a young man settled in Pompey, Onondaga Co., N. Y., where he married Malinda, daughter of Nathaniel Butts, of that place. She was a native of Canterbury, Conn., born in 1790, and with her parents removed first to Massachusetts, and when she was sixteen years of age the family settled in Pompey. Of this union were born in the town of Pompey, Levi C. Chase, of Lima, Livingston Co., N. Y.; Mrs. Dr. Washington Day (deceased), of Arcade, Wyoming Co. The family removed from Pompey and settled in the town of Cohocton, Steuben Co., in 1812, and purchased a farm, a portion of which now forms a part of the village of Liberty, and through which the Rochester branch of the Erie Rail- road runs. Nearly all of this farm was cleared by Mr. Chase, senior. At the time of his settlement at what is now Liberty Village there was only a single log house, hence the Chase family were among the pioneers of that part of the county. In 1837 he sold his farm at Liberty, removed to Chautauqua County, and died the same year, aged fifty-two. His wife survived him thirty-six years, and died at the resi- dence of her son, in Avoca, in 1873, aged eighty-four. Their children born in the town of Cohocton were Na- thaniel B., subject of this narrative; Aurilla (died in infancy); Mrs. Franklin Day (deceased), of Bufi'alo; Dwight W., of Elcador, Iowa; Amos W. (deceased); Josiah (died in infancy). Mr. Chase received the opportunities of the common school only until he was ten years of age. At the age of seventeen he went as an apprentice to learn the milling business; after one year he worked as journeyman for several years. In 1846 he pur
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