Chase, Robert G

Chase, Robert G., a minister of the Protestant Episcopal Church, was born at Hopkinton, N. H., Dec. 19, 1835. He graduated from Burlington College in 1856, and was ordained deacon the same year. His first curacy was at Pemberton, N. J.; and in 1859 he accepted the rectorship of St. Matthias's Church, Philadelphia, where he labored with great zeal and success, until his death, by drowning, July 24,1867, off Mt. Desert, on the coast of Maile. See Amer. Quar. Church Rev. Oct. 1867, p. 500.