Early Life
Chase was born in Hopkinton, New Hampshire, the son of Captain Charles Chase and Sarah (Currier) Chase. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1817. He was ordained deacon in 1818 and ordained priest in 1820 by Alexander Viets Griswold. After his ordination, Chase moved to Bellows Falls, Vermont and became the rector of Immanuel Church. Not long after arriving in Bellows Falls, Chase married an inhabitant of that town, Harriet Cutler. They would go on to have eight children. He remained at Immanuel until his ordination in 1844, receiving a doctor of divinity during his time there from the University of Vermont.
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