USA-project, biographies-area, biographical data regarding Salmon Portland Chase (1808-1873) ...

Salmon P. Chase Salmon Chase was born in 1808 in New Hampshire. His family could trace its American origins to the early years of Massachusetts settlement in the seventeenth century. The eighth of eleven children of a tavernkeeper and local officeholder, Chase recei ved his early education in a local district school and a private institution. When Chase was nine years old, his father died, and ...