Education
He studied law.
He studied law.
Born in Cornish, New Hampshire, he went on to teach in Amsterdam, New New York He moved to Wisconsin and served in the Wisconsin State Senate, and the Racine, Wisconsin Board of Education. Chase served as a paymaster and was commissioned colonel during the American Civil War.
Chase moved to Nebraska where he became the state"s first attorney general, serving from 1867 to 1869.
He was elected four times to the position of mayor of Omaha, Nebraska. In 1871, he was elected Grand Senior Warden in the Nebraska Commandary of Knights Templar (Freemasons).
In 1886 he was unanimously chosen president of the Nebraska State Humane Society.
He was a member of the University of Nebraska board of regents from 1869 to 1875.