Background
He spent his youth on his father"s farm, now called "Jericho", located in the Jericho school district of Pomfret, in the northeast corner of Connecticut.
He spent his youth on his father"s farm, now called "Jericho", located in the Jericho school district of Pomfret, in the northeast corner of Connecticut.
He attended the one room Jericho school and at age sixteen he attended Woodstock Academy.
A Sabin Chase (August 15, 1828—June 7, 1896) was an American industrialist of the Gilded Age. The family is descended on both sides from 17th-century English Colonial settlers. At age eighteen, he briefly taught in a country school in Brooklyn, Connecticut.
The following year he clerked in the Danielson Manufacturing Company store in Killingly.
He settled in Waterbury, Connecticut, in 1850, to take a position in the Waterbury Savings Bank, where he rapidly became cashier (1852) and eventually president (1864), a position which he retained for his lifetime. He developed interests in many of Waterbury"s companies.
In 1876 he and a group of investors bought the assets of the bankrupt United States. Button Company, forming the Waterbury Manufacturing Company, of which he was treasurer, then president Waterbury Manufacturing became the core of the Chase Companies (1913) and later of Chase Brass and Copper Company (1936).
He was also president of the Waterbury Watch Company, the Benedict & Burnham Manufacturing Company, and the Waterbury Buckle Company.
When the Waterbury American was about to fold in 1868, he was one of the organizers of the American Printing Company, to continue the newspaper"s publication and was its president from 1877. A lifelong Republican, he represented Waterbury in the Connecticut State Legislature, 1865. In the 1880s he purchased a house, "Rose Hill", on a hillside tract above Waterbury"s main square.
He was one of the founders of the Waterbury Club and its first president
He was a trustee of Saint Margaret"s School and its first treasurer. he was the first treasurer of the city of Waterbury and served on the city"s school and water boards and the Board of Agents of the Silas Bronson Library. On September 7, 1854, Associate of Science Chase married in Waterbury Martha Clark Starkweather (1830-1906), daughter of Doctor Rodney Starkweather and Jane (Starkweather) Starkweather of Chesterfield, Massachusetts.
They had six children, of whom the three Yale-educated sons succeeded him in his manufacturing and other concerns. The eldest, Henry Sabin Chase (1855-1918), graduated from Yale College in 1877 and managed the American Printing Company and was treasurer of the Waterbury Manufacturing Company and president of the combined Chase Companies.
Irving Hall Chase (1858-1951).
(Yale 1880) was secretary of the Waterbury Clock Company. South.W. Kellogg. Frederick Starkweather Chase (1862-1819-. Yale 1887) was president of the Waterbury Manufacturing Company.
The three daughters were Helen Elizabeth, who did not marry, Mary Eliza (Kimball), and Alice Martha (Streeter).
Associate of Science He was interred at Riverside Cemetery, Waterbury.
He was one of the original members of the Second Congregational Society, also of the Waterbury Hospital corporation.