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  Philander Chase - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Philander Chase ( December 14, 1775 - September 20, 1852) was an Episcopal bishop and founder and first president of Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio in 1824.
Chase spent the final years of his life in the frontier community near present-day Peoria, Illinois, where he founded Jubilee College, financed by arduous fund-raising journies overseas.
Philander Chase was brother of Salmon P. Chase, former Chief Justice of the United States.
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 Peoria Co., IL Biography - Philander H. Chase   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Chase is just erecting a commodious house, which, when it is completed, will be one of the most attractive homes in the vicinity.
Chase was married in Princeville, Illinois September 14, 1871, to Miss Nannie Calvin, a native of Pennsylvania.
Chase is a man of high principles, is well endowed mentally and physically, and possesses in a full degree those characteristics so essential to success in any walk in life.
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 Salmon Chase
In 1855 Chase was elected as the governor of Ohio.
Chase was highly critical of those officers in the Union Army such as Irvin McDowell, George McClellan and Henry Halleck who appeared unwilling to attack the Confederate Army in 1862.
The main argument that Chase had with Lincoln was that the president refused to state that emancipation of the slaves was an object of the war.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USASchase.htm   (1537 words)

  
 HarpWeek | Elections | 1864 Biographies
Chase’s political goal was to become president of the United States, but he failed to gain the Republican nomination in either 1856, 1860, or 1864.
Chase was a constant critic of Lincoln’s policies, inundating the president with unsolicited advice and proffering his resignation four times in fits of pique.
Chase was unable to forge a solid majority during his tenure as chief justice and often found himself in dissent on such important cases as Ex parte Milligan (1866), Bradwell v.
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 Salmon P. Chase biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Chase was born in Cornish, New Hampshire, and lost his father when he was nine years old.
In 1849 Chase was elected to the United States Senate from Ohio on the Free Soil Party, and in 1855 he was elected governor of Ohio.
Chase then served as Chief Justice of the United States to succeed Roger B. Taney, holding that position from 1864 until his death in 1873.
salmon-portland-chase.biography.ms   (1172 words)

  
 Salmon Chase
Chase was an Episcopalian who detested nativism and racism, and who for the rest of his life would pursue the cause of equal rights.
Chase was a capable Secretary, particularly given the importance of monetary issues in the conduct of the Civil War, but was a cabinet member whose loyalty Lincoln was to call into question.
Chase's opinion, by a 4-3 Court, was reversed a year later, after President Ulysses S. Grant appointed William Strong and Joseph Bradley to the Court.
www.michaelariens.com /ConLaw/justices/chasesal.htm   (887 words)

  
 Ohio History Central - History - 1856-1877 - People - Salmon Portland Chase   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Salmon Portland Chase was born on January 13, 1808, in Cornish, New Hampshire.
Philander Chase was the Episcopal bishop of Ohio and ran a school near Worthington.
Chase was unsuccessful in gaining the Republican presidential nomination in 1864, losing out to Lincoln as he had in 1860.
www.ohiohistorycentral.org /ohc/h/05/peo/chasesp.shtml   (1441 words)

  
 A Biography of Philander Chase
Philander Chase was born on December 14, 1775, in Cornish, New Hampshire to Dudley and Allace Corbett Chase.
Chase’s wife, Sophia, proved nearly as vital to the functioning of Kenyon College as the Bishop himself— she cooked for the students, nursed their illnesses, and did their laundry, as well as managed the affairs during the Bishop’s frequent trips to raise funds.
Chase also faced the death of his wife, Mary, and of three of his children (two of whom did not see their first birthday), and he endured constant attacks of his enemies, and a life of dire financial straits, for both him, and his institutions.
www2.kenyon.edu /Khistory/chase/biography/biography.htm   (1830 words)

  
 Ohio Historical Society | Ohio Governors   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Ignoring his detractors, Chase emphasized the dangers of slavery extension and what he called "Southernism." The result of the election, crucial for the future of the Republican party in Ohio, was a victory for the entire Republican ticket.
If, as some historians have suggested, Lincoln's motive in appointing Chase to the court was to put a perennial candidate in an office that would satisfy his ambition and thus "bury" him, as Chase's daughter charged, Lincoln failed, for Chase, abandoning the Republican party, actively sought the Democratic nomination in 1868.
Chase's arduous duties as chief justice and fruitless exertions to gain the presidency led to rapid decline in health and to death on May 7, 1873, at the age of sixty-five.
www.ohiohistory.org /onlinedoc/ohgovernment/governors/chase.html   (1052 words)

  
 From Revolution to Reconstruction: Biographies: Salmon Portland Chase 1
The ninth of eleven children Salmon Portland Chase was born to Ithmar Chase and his wife the former Janet Ralston on January 13, 1808 in Cornish, New Hampshire.
Philander Chase, an Episcopal Bishop, took Salmon to the woods of Ohio.
Chase had been away on a legal trip at the time of his wife's death anguished he had left her despite reassurances that she was recovering.
odur.let.rug.nl /~usa/B/spchase/chase01.htm   (617 words)

  
 WHO WAS PHILANDER KNOX?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Allegations that Secretary of State Philander Knox was not merely in error, but committed fraud when he falsely declared the 16th amendment ratified in 1913, require us to look at who he was to understand why he would commit such an act.
Philander Chase Knox was born in 1853 in western Pennsylvania, son of a bank cashier.
Knox came to be regarded as one of the ablest lawyers in the country, his repute due in no small measure to his being counsel for Carnegie and Vanderbilt and their corporate enterprises.
www.geocities.com /lord_visionary/philander_knoxx.htm   (2045 words)

  
 Greenslade Special Collections and Archives - Exhibits - The Kenyon Presidency - Philander Chase   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Chase found the worship experience in the Episcopal Church particularly rewarding and decided to pursue the ministry after his graduation from Dartmouth in 1795.
Chase was a strong president, involving himself in both the minutiae of day-to-day life as well as serving as its chief executive.
Chase is most remembered for his obstinate determination necessary to found and foster Kenyon College and its associated institutions during times of extreme hardship.
lbis2.kenyon.edu /sca/exhibits/presidency/chase.phtml   (543 words)

  
 Philander's Well
Kenyon College was founded about 1827 by the Episcopal Bishop Philander Chase on an isolated hilltop in Ohio, the village becoming known as Gambier after an early donor.
Philander then left to bring the blessings of higher education further to the west.
And they had a vested interest in solving major crises, especially crises that kept their husbands at work late for extra faculty meetings, student judicial board hearings, or the other things that go on when a college campus is in turmoil.
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 Bishop Philander Chase Timeline   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Chase realized that since the split with the Church of England, Episcopalian priests were very scarce and not enough attention was being given to the Western expansion of the church.
Chase, both frustrated and exhausted, instead resigned the presidency of Kenyon College and the episcopacy of Ohio on September 9, 1831.
Chase's sons, Henry, Philander, and Dudley, managed the college farm and a large flock of sheep.
www.iltrails.org /peoria/his/jub/jubxline.html   (1045 words)

  
 The Papers of George Washington
Philander Chase lectured on David Hackett Fischer's 2004 book Washington's Crossing for the "Books Sandwiched In" program at Charlottesville's Northside Library on January 21, 2005, and again at the Crozet Library, Crozet, Va., on January 25, 2005.
Philander Chase's article "'The Debt Which Must All Pay': Tobias Lear's Diary Account of George Washington's Death" appeared in the November 2004 issue of Pennsylvania Legacies, a popular history magazine published by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
Philander Chase agreed to serve as an honorary member of the National Washington-Rochambeau Revolutionary Route Association (W-3R), and attended its annual meeting in Washington in April 24.
gwpapers.virginia.edu /project/project/news.html   (568 words)

  
 Salmon P Chase, Attorney General of Fugitive Slaves
Chase appealed to the state supreme court, where the case was heard in January 1838.
Chase made a vigorous argument that Matilda having been brought to Ohio by the consent of her master, became free.
To show their strong sense of gratitude for Chase's defense of Samuel Watson, a runaway slave, and for his other undertakings on behalf of slaves, he was presented with a sterling silver pitcher, as a testimonial of gratitude for his efforts in the Watson case and for other services.
pw1.netcom.com /~rilydia/chase/spchase1.html   (2541 words)

  
 Salmon P. Chase   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Salmon Portland Chase was born in Cornish Township, New Hampshire, the son of a tavern keeper and minor public official.
Chase’s initial political allegiance was to the Whig party, but in 1848 he assisted in the establishment of the Free-Soil Party.
From 1849 to 1855, Chase served in the U.S. Senate where he was an outspoken critic of the Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
www.u-s-history.com /pages/h243.html   (424 words)

  
 Chase, Salmon P.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Bishop Chase, having been elected to the Presidency of Cincinnati College, removed to that city for the purpose of entering upon the discharge of the responsible duties thus devolved upon him, taking his nephew with him.
Chase so acquitted himself as to add materially to his already honorable reputation, and inspire general confidence in his learning, skill, readiness, and power as a jurist.
Chase's future by his past, that section of the Union to which he more particularly belongs, will have cause to congratulate itself upon his re-election to the Senate, should it be in the order of events that he is there to take the oath of office.
www.wvu.edu /~lawfac/jelkins/lp-2001/chase.html   (1536 words)

  
 Ohio Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Chase moved to Worthington to live with his uncle, Bishop Philander Chase.
Chase was well known for his opposition to slavery expansion, and as a U.S. Senator, he opposed the Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska bill.
Chase took on a leadership role in the slavery debate.
ohiobio.org /governors/chase.htm   (167 words)

  
 Philander Chase Biography / Profile of Philander Chase Biographies
The American clergyman Philander Chase (1775-1852) was a pioneer Episcopal missionary in the early years of westward expansion and the first Episcopal bishop in both Ohio and Illinois.
Philander Chase was born on Dec. 14, 1775, at Cornish, N.H., the last of 15 children.
Chase's career began as a missionary in central New York (1799-1805) and continued when he was appointed a rector in New Orleans (1805-1811), and later in Hartford, Conn. (1811-1817).
www.bookrags.com /biography/philander-chase   (212 words)

  
 The Reconstruction Justice of Salmon P. Chase: In Re Turner and Texas v. White
Chase, in Hyman’s words, believed that "the Thirteenth Amendment had redefined and elevated the legal status of every American to that of free persons, thereby limiting states’ capacities substantively to impair that status, even in the guise of private employer/apprenticeship contracts" (p.
In this one sweeping opinion, Chase defined for the nation the meaning of the Civil War and Reconstruction: secession was impossible and had never occurred, and Congress’s insistence on legal equality for all citizens and political rights for fl males was necessary and proper.
Professor Hyman melds Chase’s earlier life with mid-nineteenth-century American history in general and with the chief justice’s reasoning in both cases and thereby provides the diligent reader with a sophisticated analysis of what the Civil War and Reconstruction meant to Chase and the Supreme Court in the late 1860s.
www.unt.edu /lpbr/subpages/reviews/hyman.htm   (1537 words)

  
 St George's Dayton OH Church Windows Philander Chase
Philander was the youngest of 15 children born to a family of remarkable pioneers self-sufficient, intelligent, and exceptionally well educated.
Philander became an Episcopalian while attending Dartmouth College, and entered the ministry soon afterward, preaching to settlers and Indians as an itinerant missionary in New York State, founding the first Protestant parish in the Louisianan Territory, and serving a parish in Connecticut, before heading to Ohio in the spring of 1817.
Finally, when he was 60 years old, the diocese of Illinois called Philander as their bishop, and he started over one last time, with one church, four priests, and two deacons for the entire state, traveling through the wilderness once more, to preach in cabins, flsmith’s shops, and barns until his death in 1852.
www.stgeorgeohio.org /Stainedglass/chase.htm   (423 words)

  
 HIST 394.01 - History of Kenyon College - The History and the Life of Bishop Philander Chase   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Born on January 14, 1775 in Cornish, New Hampshire, Philander Chase was the fourteenth child in a farming family headed by Dudley Chase and Alice Corbitt.
Chase traveled with his family from Gambier to the Valley of Peace in the unsettled regions of Ohio.
Chase spent three years in Michigan until he was appointed Bishop of the new Diocese of Illinois in the Spring of 1835.
lbis2.kenyon.edu /sca/courses/2001/chase.phtml   (919 words)

  
 Trinity Church   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Dudley Chase was one of three men who in 1765 came up the Connecticut River in a canoe to establish the first settlement in Cornish.
His son, Philander, a student at Dartmouth College, was so impressed with the Book of Common Prayer that he induced his relatives and friends to establish an Episcopal Society in Cornish in 1793.
Philander Chase became Bishop of the Diocese of Ohio and was the founder of Kenyon College.
www.crjc.org /heritage/N08-2.htm   (545 words)

  
 Grenada content of Wikipedia free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Salmon Portland Chase ( January 13, 1808 – May 7, 1873) was an American politician and jurist in the Civil War era who served as Chief Justice of the United States and previously as U.S. Treasury Secretary under Abraham Lincoln.
Chase's daughter, Kate, was a notable socialite in her own right as the Civil War "Belle of Washington", acting as her father's official hostess and unofficial campaign manager.
After her father's death the marriage detoriated further with Sprague's marital infidelities, alcoholism, and constant belittling of Chase's spending habits, where Chase in turn had an affair with Roscoe Conkling.
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 Edwin M Stanton
The founder of the college, Bishop Philander Chase worked his students hard as was attested to by his nephew Salmon P.
The radial republican Chase insisted that it was senseless to combat a rebellion while upholding the evil that had caused it.
When Salmon P Chase was Secretary of the Treasury he had been accused of being lax in the way he handled the cotton permits which allowed some trading with the south to keep the cotton mills in the north active.
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 History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Philander Chase, DD., a Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, to the Episcopate of Illinois, and that he be and herein is, invited to remove into this Diocese, and to assume Episcopal jurisdiction in the same.
Philander Chase became the first bishop of the Diocese of Illinois with no salary and no home provided.
Young Chase left Springfield in 1838, and was succeeded by Rev. Charles Dresser of Virginia who later officiated at the marriage of Abraham Lincoln and St. Paul’s member, Mary Todd.
www.stpaulspeoria.com /history.htm   (1380 words)

  
 : : : Then and Now Together 2002 : : :   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Chase then taught school and studied law in Washington D.C. Chase’s first idea of being an abolitionist came from defending abolitionist editor and activist James Birney.
Chase was a part of the impeachment of Andrew Johnson.
Chase would not have the Senate changing the hearings into a mockery of the law in the Andrew Johnson case, he made sure that everything was handled in the right way.
www.freedomcenter.org /tnt/2002/conductors/page2.html   (861 words)

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