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| Name | Emory A. Chase |
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| Info | HON. EMORY ALBERT CHASE, of Catskill, Justice of the Supreme Court for the Third Judicial District of New York, was born on August 31, 1854, at Hensonville, Greene County, N. Y., where his parents, Albert and Laura (Woodworth) Chase, are still living. On the paternal side he is of English descent, and on the maternal of Scotch.
The ancestral home of the Chase family was at Chesham, England. Thomas Chase, a prominent resident of Chesham, had a son Richard, who married Joan Bishop at Chesham, April 16, 1564. This couple had a son Thomas, born at Chesham, who emigrated to America about the year 1639, and settled at Hampton, N. H. He was married to Elizabeth, a daughter of Thomas Philbrick, and remained in Hampton until his death in 1652. He had a son Isaac, born April 1, 1647, who is commonly referred to as Lieutenant Isaac. This son married for his second wife Mary Tilton, and lived at Vineyard Haven, Martha’s Vineyard. He died there, May 19, 1727, and is buried on the hill overlooking the head of Vineyard Haven.
Isaac Chase and his wife had a son Joseph, born February 26, 1689, who married Lydia Coffin. There first child, Abel, was born October 9, 1719. He married February 14, 1744, on Martha’s Vineyard Island, Mercy Mayhew. They had a son Zephaniah, born March 14, 1748. He married his first wife Abigail Skiff. Zephaniah Chase was a member of Captain Smith’s seaport company during the Revolutionary War. After the close of the war and in the years 1787 he sold his property in Vineyard Haven and migrated to the present town of Lexington, Greene County, N. Y., then County of Albany. His son Benjamin, born January 21, 1774, married Lydia Skiff, and had a son Albert, born January 4, 1819.
Albert Chase and Laura O. Woodworth were married on September 1, 1844. They have two sons, namely: Demont L., of Hensonville, N. Y.; and Emory A., of Catskill, the special subject of this biography. Albert Chase was engaged for many years in contracting, building, and lumbering. Since retiring he has lived on a farm.
Most of the early life of Judge Chase was spent on his father’s farm. He attended the public school at Hensonville, and continued his studies at the Fort Edward Collegiate Institute, but did not graduate. He was fitted for the legal profession in the office of King & Hallock (Rufus H. King and Joseph Hallock) at Catskill. In April, 1880, he became interested in the firm of Hallock & Jennings; and in 1882 he became one of its members, the firm name being changed to Hallock, Jennings & Chase. After Mr. Hallock’s retirement, September 1890, the business was continued under the style of Jennings & Chase until December 1896, when it was dissolved in consequence of Mr. Chase’s election as Justice of the Supreme Court for the Third Judicial District. In a district usually Democratic he was elected on the Republican ticket by a majority of about thirteen thousand. Since the 1st of January, 1897, he has devoted himself to the duties of that office.
The jurisdiction of a Supreme Court Judge extends throughout the State, but the judges are elected by districts. The Third District is composed of seven counties---Rensselaer, Albany, Schoharie, Columbia, Greene, Ulster and Sullivan. Judge Chase has always been a Republican in politics, and up to the time of his election as a Supreme Court Judge he attended as a delegate nearly every town, county, district, and State convention of the Republican party. During his career at the bar he was constantly connected with important litigations of the Third Judicial District and other parts of the State. He has been admitted to practice in the United States District and Circuit Courts and in the United States Supreme Court.
Judge Chase has long been prominent in the local affairs of Catskill, he was a member of the Board of Education for fourteen years previous to December, 1896, and for five years was its president. He served for a long period as corporation counsel of the village of Catskill, retiring from that office in 1895, and was Supervisor of the town of Catskill in 1890. He has also been conspicuously identified with several of the most representative local interests. He is now first vice-president of the Catskill Savings Bank, a director in the Tanner’s National Bank and in many other local enterprises. He is a member of the Presbyterian church.
Emory A. Chase married Mary E. Churchill on the thirtieth day of June, 1885. They have two children—Jessie Churchill Chase and Albert Woodworth Chase—and have a pleasant home at 25 Prospect Avenue.
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