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Salmon Portland CHASE, Congress, OH (1808-1873)

Senate Years of Service: 1849-1855; 1861-1861Party: Free Soil; RepublicanCHASE, Salmon Portland, (nephew of Dudley Chase, cousin of Dudley Chase Denison, and father-in-law of William Sprague […

Chase, Salmon Portland

(Encyclopedia) Chase, Salmon Portland, 1808–73, American public official and jurist, 6th chief justice of the United States (1864–73), b. Cornish, N.H. Admitted to the bar in 1829, he defended…

Dudley CHASE, Congress, VT (1771-1846)

Senate Years of Service: 1813-1817; 1825-1831Party: Democratic Republican; Anti-JacksonianCHASE, Dudley, (uncle of Salmon Portland Chase and Dudley Chase Denison), a Senator from Vermont; born…

Dudley Chase DENISON, Congress, VT (1819-1905)

DENISON, Dudley Chase, (nephew of Dudley Chase and cousin of Salmon Portland Chase), a Representative from Vermont; born in Royalton, Vt., September 13, 1819; attended Royalton Academy, and was…

Chevy Chase

(Encyclopedia) Chevy Chase Chevy Chase chĕvˈē [key], town (2020 pop. 10,176), Montgomery co., W central Md., a…

Chase, Philander

(Encyclopedia) Chase, Philander, 1775–1852, American Episcopal bishop, b. Cornish, N.H. After experience as a missionary in the West, he was elected (1818) first bishop of Ohio, where he founded…

Weather: The Chase

The ChaseWeatherThere's No Place Like HomeThunderstormsDoing the TwistThe ChaseStaying Safe in a Storm Weather people enjoy bad weather. Something about a turbulent sky makes their day. I often half…

Chase, Samuel

(Encyclopedia) Chase, Samuel, 1741–1811, political leader in the American Revolution, signer of the Declaration of Independence, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1796–1811), b. Somerset…

salmon, in zoology

(Encyclopedia) salmonsalmonsămˈən [key], member of the Salmonidae, a family of marine fish that spawn in freshwater, including the salmons, the trouts, and the chars (subfamily Salmoninae), the…