Chase, :Benjamin A

Chase, :Benjamin A.

a Methodist Episcopal minister; was born about: 1834. He was converted in 1853, while a student at Newbury, Vt., and in 1858 entered the itinerant ranks. He filled important appointments-in the East -Maine Conference, spent three years in the army, united with the Providence Conference in 1870, and labored zealously until his death at East Cumberland, R. I., Aug. 17,1875. Mr. Chase was systematic, resolute, and devout. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1875, p. 58.