Background
Chase, Mistress Lewis was born on August 4, 1872 in Plainville, New York, United States. Daughter of John Buck and Helen Hopkinson (Betts) Rowell.
Chase, Mistress Lewis was born on August 4, 1872 in Plainville, New York, United States. Daughter of John Buck and Helen Hopkinson (Betts) Rowell.
Educated private schools, Chicago, Baldwinsville (New York) Academy and under tutors.
Assistant literature editor, Louisville (Kentucky) Courier-Journal, 1907-1908. Lived in Bordeaux, France, 1909-1910, London, 1911-1915. Conducted parties of Austrian and German women and children to their native countries after outbreak of European War, 1914-1915, returning with British subjects to London.
Lecture tour, America, 1916.
In charge canteen work in one of military headquarters of American Expeditionary Force in France, 1917-1918. Maintained privately supported “open house” for soldiers in Paris, 1919.
Resided India, 1920. Peking, China, 1921-1943.
Interned by Japanese, repatriated on Gripsholm, December 1943.
Fellow Royal Geography Society.