BIOGRAPHIES

 Source:
Memoirs of Lucas County & City of Toledo
Harvey Scribner, Editor in Chief
Illustrated
Volumes I & II
Publ. Madison, Wisc. by Western Historical Association
1910

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	GEORGE A. CHASE is a well-known lawyer of Toledo, a native of the city, and a resident within its boundaries the major portion of his life.  His father, Dr. James L. Chase, was a Toledo pioneer physician, and died at his home in that city, Dec. 24, 1889, eight-seven years of age.  Mrs. Chase died in 1904, having attained the great age of ninety-two years with but little diminution of her physical or mental activities.  George A. Chase was born June 17, 1843, the day of the dedication of the Bunker Hill monument.  He received a high school education in Toledo and in May, 1862, enlisted as a private in Company A, Eighty-fourth Ohio infantry.  He served in Western Virginia under Gen. B. F. Kelley, in the Civil war.  After an honorable discharge from the United States service at the end of the term of his enlistment, Mr. Chase became a student at Duff's College, at Pittsburg, Pa., where he graduated.  He studied law at Detroit, Mich., and was there admitted to the bar, in 1872.  For seventeen years he was engaged in active and successful practice of his profession in Detroit, and, in 1889, owing to business matters of his own in Toledo, he returned to his native city and opened an office for the practice of law.   Since 1904, Mr. Chase has practiced little, although he still has an office.  His leisure is felt by Mr. Chase to have been fairly earned, and since that time he has not desired to be burdened with any avoidable business cares.  Historical research is an object to which he devotes much time and enthusiasm, and he takes particular interest in the collection and compilation of data concerning the early life and history of Toledo and Lucas county.  On this subject he is an authority, and he has written in a very interesting manner a number of short sketches of pioneer men and events in this locality.  As published from time to time, these short articles have  been collected by Mr. Chase into a scrap-book, which contains the material for a valuable and authoritative work of reference.  One of these articles was prepared and read before the Maumee Valley Pioneer and Historical Association, of which Mr. Chase is a trustee, at the annual meeting Feb. 22, 1910, and others have been delivered upon similar occasions.   Mr. Chase is prominently identified with the Ohio State and Lucas County Bar associations, and the Toledo Post, Grand Army of the Republic.  In addition to his professional labors, Mr. Chase has dealt extensively in real estate in Toledo, and he is now the owner of considerable city property.  On Mar. 21, 1878, Mr. Chase was united in marriage, in Toledo, to Miss Grace Osbon, daughter of the late William H. Osbon, of Toledo.  Two children have been born of this marriage—James L. and Elizabeth H. — both of whom were born in Detroit, and are now grown to manhood and womanhood and are well educated.  James L. is now engaged in successful business in Toledo.  The family resides in a fine modern home on Lincoln avenue.  Mr. Chase is affiliated with the Republican party in politics, and he has been very active in several campaigns in support of his political beliefs.  He is a convincing public speaker, in legal matters a learned, wise and prudent counsellor, and in all matters of business, as between man and man, acts strictly on honest business principles.  Source: Memoirs of Lucas County & City of Toledo - Vol. II - Publ. 1910 - Page 387
	WALTER J. CHASE, who is president and treasurer of the B. A. Stevens Company, at the corner of Erie, Lafayette and Lucas streets, Toledo, and who for many years has been a prominent and influential resident of the above city, merits consideration in this historical compilation by reason of his pronounced and gratifying success and prestige in the commercial and industrial worlds and his sterling worth as a citizen.  He is a product of Erie county in this State, having been born in Milan, Sept. 10, 1845.  His parents were Harry and Amy Ann (Atherton) Chase, the former of whom was born in the old Empire State, in 1806, and the latter in the State of Massachusetts, in 1815.  Harry Chase was reared in his native State and received his education in her common schools.  In his early manhood he migrated to Milan, Ohio, where he was successfully engaged in commercial pursuits until 1856, when he removed to Toledo and embarked in the commission business, in which he continued up to the time of his demise, in 1874.  He was a very prominent and influential member of the community and at one time was internal revenue collector in the Tenth district of Ohio, and in his capacity, as in all others in which his long and industrious career placed him, he brought to the discharge of his duties capability of a high order and absolute integrity, indispensable attributes in the larger affairs of life.  The subject of this review was one of a family of six children - four brothers and two sisters - of whom he is the only one who survives.  He acquired his educational training in the public schools of his native city and those of Toledo, having removed to the latter place in 1856, when eleven years of age.  After leaving school he entered the employ of Rolf & Company, hardware dealers, in the capacity of clerk, and there he remained for six years, at the expiration of which, in 1870, he became an employe of Chase, Isherwood & Company, tobacco manufacturers and wholesale dealers, which concern was then owned and conducted by his brother.  Here he was employed continuously for twenty-eight years, until 1898, when he resigned to accept the presidency and treasurership of the B. A. Stevens Company, becoming the successor of B. A. Stevens, the founder and promotor of that institution.  It was organized in 1875 and, like other concerns of that nature, it was launched in a modest manner, but was soon placed on a sound basis, and, advancing step-by-step, with the development of Toledo and vicinity, it rapidly attained to a foremost position among industrial and commercial enterprises of the State.  The company was incorporated under the laws of the State of Ohio, in 1903, and the present officers are:  Walter J. Chase, president and treasurer; J. T. Dempsey, vice-president; and John A. Haverfield, secretary.  Among the products of the concern are the following:  Refrigerators and ice-boxes, cold storage doors, cooling rooms, market fixtures, butchers' machinery, tools and supplies, bar furniture and fixtures, billiard and pool tables, sectional bowling alleys, automatic five and ten-pin alleys, lunch outfits, tobacco cases, and billiard, bowling and bar supplies.  Mr. Chase is a member of the National Union and the Royal Arcanum, and he and his wife old membership in First Congregational church of Toledo.  On Oct. 6, 1870, was solemnized his marriage to Miss Clara W. Tingley, an accomplished young woman of Providence, R. I., and a daughter of Henry F. and Lucy (Ann) Tingley, the former of whom is proprietor and general manager of the Tingley Marble Works, of Providence.  Of the happy marital union of Mr. Chase and wife have been born three children, all of whom are making a success of life.  They are: Walter N., who is now teller in the Toledo Savings Bank & Loan Association; Arthur J., now general manager of the New Paint & Varnish Company of Toledo; and Clara L., who is principal of the kindergarten of the Fulton street school of Toledo.  The commercial career of Mr. Chase has been characterized by exceptional enterprise, integrity, business tact and shrewdness, and he commands in fullest measure the unreserved confidence and esteem of his business associates, the institution's many patrons and all others with whom he comes in contact.  His life has been one of persistent, honest endeavor, in which no man can point to a dishonorable act, and in the various capacities in which his long and exceptionally industrious career has placed him, he has displayed the vary highest qualities of ability, energy and devotion to duty, which makes his life an inspiration to others, and the records of which will remain in precious heritage to those he leaves behind.  Source: Memoirs of Lucas County & City of Toledo - Vol. II - Publ. 1910 - Page 446
Alies S. Cohen	ALIES S COHEN  Source: Memoirs of Lucas County & City of Toledo - Vol. II - Publ. 1910 - Page 281
Dr. George Anthony Collamore	DR. GEORGE ANTHONY COLLAMORE  Source: Memoirs of Lucas County & City of Toledo - Vol. II - Publ. 1910 - Page 120
	C. LOCKE CURTIS was a member of the Newspaper fraternity of the city of Toledo for a number of years, and although now engaged in other pursuits, manifests a live interest in journalistic and kindred matters, and in the preparation of the chapter on "The Press of the County" for this publication gave the publishers the benefit of his long experience by editing and revising the "copy."  Mr. Curtis was born in Auburn, N. Y., Sept. 2, 1860, and attended a district school in Tompkins county, New York, while working on a farm.  He prepared for college at the old Ithaca Academy and entered Cornel University in 1879, in which institution he was graduated with a class of 1883, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts.  He came to Toledo in the fall of the same year and arranged to enter a law office of Brown & Geddes, as a clerk but was persuaded by his uncle, David R. Locke (Hasby) to change his plans to accept a position on the "Toledo Blade" as a reporter.  He remained with that paper until 1889, when he resigned to enter the life insurance business as a agent for the Aetna.  In the years 1891-2 he was again numbered with the newspaper fraternity, working on the "Toledo Commercial," which at that time was being published by Patrick C. Boyle, of Oil City, Pa.  Mr. Curtis resigned his position with the "Commercial" to accept employment with the Equitable Life Insurance Company, but in 1895 he was appointed to and accepted the position of city editor of the "Blade.   In 1901, he became associate editor of the same paper, and from that time until 1908 had charge of the editorial page of that leading and widely read newspaper.  In the last named year he finally severed his connection with the journalistic profession and accepted the district managership of the Aetna Life Insurance Company, with headquarters in Toledo.  To the duties of that important position he now devotes his entire attention.  Source: Memoirs of Lucas County & City of Toledo - Vol. II - Publ. 1910 - Page 39

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