Horace I. Chase, of Pittsfield, NY was born on his fathers farm two

miles east of his present home, July 28 1854.  His is a son of Joseph 
Chase and his wife, Hulda A. Chase, who was of the same name as her 
husband, and a very distant relative.  Joseph Chase was born in this 
county in 1812, and is now in his eighty-first year, living retired 
at New Berlin.  His father, Asa Chase, was born in Rhode Island, as 
was also his wife, who was Hannah Buffum.  There they lived until 
about 1808.  A portion of their family of thirteen children were born 
in Rhode Island.  Their names were as follows:  Thaddeus, Sweat, 
Buffum, Caleb, Benjamin, Asa, Elisha, Joshua, Willett, Betsy, Hannah, 
Joseph and Daniel, of whom only the last named survive.  Daniel is a 
well to do farmer, living on his excellent farm in the town of 
Pittsfield; he is seventy-eight years old.  Willett was a blacksmith 
by trade, and a farmer in Burlington; he died in Niagara County in 
1886, at the age of eighty-four, having reared a large family.  The 
two daughters died in early maidenhood.  The parents of this large 
family came to this county, making the journey with teams and lived a 
short time in New Lisbon.  They then removed to the vicinity of 
Pittsfield, cutting their way through the forest around Turtle Lake.  
here they bought a small tract of land of a Mr. Gratz, and building a 
rough log house, made a home in the woods some miles from any 
neighbor.  Coming with small means, they never accumulated much of 
this world's goods, but their lives must be considered a grand success 
in that they reared this large family to habits of industry, economy 
and honesty.  The father was quite a hunter and a crack marksman, 
which enabled him to live well on wild game, when domestic animals 
were scarce and valuable.  The mother of our subject, Hulda Ann 
Chase, was a daughter of Comfort Chase, and was very remotely related 
to her husband.  Her parents were from New England, her mother's 
maiden name having been Mercy Murdock.  They were farmers, and reared 
a family of ten children.

Joseph Chase had by his first wife three children, sons, viz: J. L. 
Chase, a farmer on the old homestead on which his father settled; 
Comfort, a farmer of the town of Pittsfield, and Horace L., the 
subject of this notice.  The latter was reared on the farm near 
his present home, and was educated in the district school only, 
but is an intelligent and well informed man.  He lives on a farm 
of 105 acres, to which he removed in the spring of 1889.  In 1878 
he married Mary A. Bell, who died October 15, 1878.  He was again 
married, September 17, 1884, to Eliza E. Tilley, of the town of 
Pittsfield, and daughter of William F. Tilley.  They have buried 
twin daughters, and have living one son, a fine, bright boy, who 
was born January 29, 1891.

Mr. Chase has thirty-five acres of timber on his farm, a portion of 
which is a good sugar bush.  He carries on general farming, and 
keeps a small dairy of eight cows, also a few young cattle and 
sheep.  He is a Democrat in politics, and has served his town as 
Inspector of Elections.