Champion Spalding Chase (1820 - 1898)

Born 20 Mar 1820 in Cornish, Sullivan County, New Hampshire

Ancestors

Husband of Mary Sophronia (Butterfield) Chase — married 1 May 1848 in Racine, Wisconsin

Descendants

Died 3 Nov 1898 at age 78 in Nebraska

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Colonel Champion Chase served in the United States Civil War.
Enlisted: Nov 26 1862
Mustered out: Jan 22 1866
Side: USA
Regiment(s): Paymaster Of Volunteers US Army

Biography

Champion Chase is Notable.

Champion Spalding Chase was born in 1820 in Cornish, New Hampshire to Clement Chase and Olive Spalding Chase.

He received his primary education in a common school at Cornish and then attended Kimball Union Academy in Meriden. He was a teacher for several years before studying law and seeking admission to the New York Bar in 1847. Champion moved to Wisconsin, and in the same year as his marriage to Mary Sophronia Butterfield, daughter of Moses Bradford Butterfield, he opened his law office. In 1851, he was admitted to practice in the United States Supreme Court on the motion of Daniel Webster. In 1853 he was appointed Brigadier General of the Wisconsin State Militia. He served as president of the Racine, Wisconsin, Board of Education as well as a chairman of the Judiciary Committee of Wisconsin to help revise the laws of the state.

Champion, upon the personal recommendation of Salmon Portland Chase, his cousin, was commissioned Paymaster of the Union Army with the rank of Major of Cavalry by President Abraham Lincoln. He served in the army almost 4 years and witnessed the sieges of Knoxville, Mobile, and Vicksburg.

Having served 9 months after the close of the Civil War, Champion was discharged at Brownsville Texas. He retired, under a commission of Andrew Johnson, as Lieutenant Colonel. He moved to Omaha with his wife and son, and upon Nebraska's admission to the Union, he became the first Attorney General of the new state. In 1874, Champion Chase was elected mayor for one year - again for two years in 1875 - and again in 1879 and 1883. His plans of parks, boulevards, and public improvements were generally carried out by the city.

Champions's wife, Mary Sophronia, died in Omaha in January 1882. Champion died in 1898. They are buried at Prospect Hill Cemetery, Omaha, Nebraska.

Chase County, Nebraska is named in his honor.

Sources

"Genealogy of Champion Spalding Chase and Mary Sophronia Butterfield, his wife, compiled by, request of and for, Joel Munsell's Sons, Albany New York, publishers of "American Ancestry" to which brief personal sketches are added," 1894, 19 pages.

American Ancestry: Giving Name and Descent, in the Male Line, of ..., Volume 10 edited by Thomas Patrick Hughes, Frank Munsell, pages 8-9.

Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services. Wisconsin Vital Record Index, Marriages, pre-1907. Madison, WI, USA: Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services Vital Records Division, Volume 1, page 0092.

1850 and 1860 US Federal Censuses, Racine, Wisconsin.

1870 US Federal Census, Omaha, Douglas, Nebraska.

Find A Grave Memorial #198813.

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