Chase, Benjamin, Dd

Chase, Benjamin, D.D.

a Presbyterian minister, was born at Litchfield, N.H., November 20, 1789. He graduated from Middlebury College in 1814, and labored as a missionary in Louisiana; in 1828 took charge of "Carmel Church," ten miles south of Natchez, Mississippi; in 1830 became Bible-agent in the South-western states; in 1840 declined in health, and died October 11, 1870. See Nevin, Presbyterian Encyclop. s.v.