The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 475 GEORGE M. CHASE. George M. Chase was born in Seneca county, New York, April 10, 1862, and comes of ancestry that has been distinctively American in both lineal and collateral lines through many generations, while the more remote ancestry is of English origin. His parents were George and Eliza (Robinson) Chase. The father was born in Seneca county, New York, in 1832 and passed away in 1864. He was a son of Isaac Chase, a native of England, who in young manhood crossed the Atlantic to New York, where he followed the occupation of farming. His son, George Chase, Sr., was reared and educated in the Empire state and after arriving at years of maturity wedded Eliza Robinson, also a native of New York and a daughter of Morgan Lewis and Amanda Malvina (Daball) Robinson. In the maternal line the ancestry is traced back to a very remote period. Morgan L. Robinson was a son of Giles Robinson and a grandson of Elisha and Sarah (Sanford) Robinson, who were descendants of the Rev. John Robinson, who was born in 1576 and lived in Norwich, England. He was a Puritan pastor in Nottingham county in 1606 and in 1607 he went to Amsterdam. In 1610 he removed to Leyden, where he passed away March 1, 1625. In 1629 his widow and two sons, Isaac and John Robinson, made their way across the Atlantic and joined the Plymouth colony. Isaac located at Scituate, Massachusetts, while John Robinson took up his abode near Cape Ann and their descendants remained residents of New England for many years. The Daballs can also be traced back through many generations. Amanda Malvina Daball Robinson, the grandmother of George M. Chase, was born in Groton, Connecticut, April 13, 1806, and was the only daughter of John Miner and Patty (Miner) Daball, who were married June 2, 1801. The latter was born December 7, 1781, and passed away on the 10th of November, 1852. In the Miner line the ancestry is traced back to Thomas Miner, who was the second son of Clement Miner and was born in Charta Magna, Somerset county, England, April 2, 1608. He came to America in 1630 on the good ship Arabella with his relative, Governor John Winthrop, and was married April 20, 1633, to Grace Palmer. Their seventh child was Menaseth Miner, who was born in New London, Connecticut, in 1647 and on the 26th of September, 1670, was married to Lydia Moore. They were parents of Elnathan Miner, who on the 21st of March, 1694, married Rebecca Baldwin, and the line of descent is traced on down to their son, Samuel Miner, who was born December 21, 1694, and on the 3d of December, 1719, married Eliza Brown. They were the parents of Elnathan Miner, who was born July 16, 1721, and was married March 7, 1751, to Sarah Smith. Their son, Richard Miner, was married January 11, 1776, to Catherine Holman. He was born September 10, 1753, and died March 19, 1847. His daughter, Patty Miner, was born December 7, 1781, and died on the 10th of November, 1852, It was on the 2d of June, 1801, that she became the wife of John Miner Daball and they had one daughter, Amanda Malvina Daball, who was born in Groton, Connecticut, April 13, 1806, and passed away August 24, 1883. In Auburn, New York, on the 13th of August, 1826, she became the wife of Morgan Lewis Robinson and they were parents of five sons and two daughters. This number included Eliza Jane Robinson, who became the wife of George Chase and the mother of George M, Chase of this review. George Chase made farming his life work and continued his residence in New York until called to his final rest in 1864. His widow afterward became the wife of Joshua Douglas, who in 1875 removed with the family to Nebraska and in 1892 came to Washington, settling in Zillah. There Mrs. Douglas died in 1902, while the death of Mr. Douglas occurred in 1903. The line of descent is thus traced down from several of the oldest New England families. George M. Chase, having incurred the disfavor of his stepfather at the age of seven, was not permitted to attend school with the rest of the children and had attended less than six months up to his sixteenth birthday, when he left home. From then on he worked for farmers summers and attended the rural schools a short time during the winters until he was of age. In 1875 Mr. Chase went with his parents to Red Cloud, Nebraska, and in 1881 he worked on a sheep ranch in Kansas one year for one hundred and five dollars. In 1882 he went to Martin county, Minnesota. On October 15, 1885, Mr. Chase was united in marriage to Miss Mattie May Frishie who was born in Louisa county, Iowa, July 15, 1862. She is a daughter of Ichabod and Hanna (Patmor) Frisbie. Her mother was a native of Ohio. Her father was born in Southington. Connecticut, December 8, 1835, and died at Red Cloud, Nebraska, August 24, 1918. He enlisted in the Thirty-fifth Iowa regiment in 1861 and served four years during the Civil war. In 1875 he moved to Red Cloud, Nebraska, where he was engaged in the milling business for forty-three years. Mr. and Mrs. Chase started their married life at Welcome, Minnesota, and remained there until 1903, when on account of Mrs. Chase's health they removed to Zillah, Washington, where they bought and developed a thirty-three acre ranch, which they later sold. In 1907 Mr. Chase took charge of the "Grandview Orchard Tracts," which were then all in sagebrush. Grandview consisted of a postoffice, a general store and a bank which opened its doors one day each week for business. In 1910 Mr. Chase took charge of Northern Pacific Railroad officials' "Cherry Lane Orchard" at Prosser, where he remained for four years. Then he returned to Grandview where he is now getting settled on his Meadow Brook stock farm, where he plans to make his home the rest of his days. Mr. and Mrs. Chase think the Yakima valley a fine place for a home and the United States of America the best place on earth for a young couple to start out in life. What they have they have earned together and believe any young couple can do as well, if they will give up the idea of trying "to eat their cake and keep it too." To Mr. and Mrs. Chase have been born six children: Charles Le Roy, now deceased; Fannie, at home; twins, who died in infancy; and Daisy and Marvin, also at home. Mr. Chase, feeling the loss of his schooling, became a stanch supporter of the public schools and determined that his children should have what he had missed in the line of education. Fannie had one year at Whitworth college and then graduated from Ellensburg Normal; Daisy graduated from Whitworth college; and Marvin is now a junior at Pullman State College. The religious faith of the family is that of the Presbyterian church, and in his political views Mr. Chase is a republican. ******************************** Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in December 2007 by Jeffrey L. Elmer. Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.