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+2281 iii Elvina Anness Chaffee, born May 14, 1845; married Winthrop C. Aldrich.

2282 iv Norman O. Chaffee, born January 26, 1847; has a dark complexion,

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brown hair, blue eyes, and is five feet, eight and one-half inches in height; was Sunday School Superintendent in the Methodist church for two years; he is a carriage manufacturer, expert worker in wood, iron, and also a painter; has been local correspondent for several newspapers; residence, 1906, East Woodstock; unmarried.

v Ina Anna Chaffee, born September 17, 1857; married Charles E. Bunce. Two other children, died young, names unknown.

874 Charles Chaffee (David," Josiah, Joseph, Joseph,2 Thomas 1) was born in Woodstock, Conn., August 7, 1807, and died in Putnam, Conn., April 12, 1886. He married in Thompson, Conn., September 5, 1836, Betsey Celinda, daughter of Zadock Spaulding of that place. She was born December 17, 1810. In 1883 Mr. Chaffee had retired from business, and was living in Putnam, where three years later he died and was buried, and where in 1890, his widow was still living. Child:

2284 i Benjamin Franklin Chaffee, born December 11, 1845; married in 1867, Eliza A. Gleason of Worcester, Mass., who died in December, 1881, and was buried in Putnam; in 1883 he was in the shoe cutting business; residence, 1890, Putnam.

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880 Nicholas Underwood 7 Chafee (Otis, Amos,5 Thomas, Thomas, Nathaniel,' Thomas 1) was born in Newport, R. I., October 14, 1803, and died February 3, 1852. He was married in Baltimore, Md., November 21, 1827, by the Reverend John M. Duncan, to Sarah Adeline Hoffman, born there, March 7, 1812, died June 13, 1862.

Children, born in Baltimore:

2285 i William Hoffman Chafee, born August 28, 1828; residence, 1884, Charleston, S. C.

+2286 ii Elizabeth Whiteford Chafee, born August 16, 1830; married I. L.

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2287 i Charles Hoffman Chafee, born July 24, 1832; died July 11, 1864. 887 Otis Jacob 7 Chafee (Otis, Amos, Thomas, Thomas,3 Nathaniel,2 Thomas 1) was born in Newport, R. I., January 13, 1815, and died in Aiken, S. C., October 3, 1869. He married in Charleston, S. C., October 10, 1837, Mary Ann, daughter of George Kinlock of that place, an Englishman. She was born December 25, 1820, died in Aiken, July 19, 1891 and was buried in Charleston.

Otis J. Chafee went from Newport to Charleston when thirteen years of age. He was a wholesale merchant there until after 1855. Later he lived in Aiken, where he died of consumption, and where his widow continued to live up to the time of her death. Both were members of the Episcopal Church, attending St. Phillips Church in Charleston, and St. Thaddeus in Aiken, in both of which he was a Vestryman. He had a fair complexion, gray eyes, and was five feet, nine and one-half inches in height.

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i Charlotte Amy 8 Chafee, born September 10, 1838; died August 22,
1843.

ii Emma Granby Chafee, born August 19, 1840; married Benjamin M.

Walpole.

iii Nathaniel Green Bourne Chafee, born February 14, 1842; married

Rosa C. Gregg.

iv Otis Chafee, born July 10, 1844; died August 1, 1857.

v Sarah Adeline Chafee, born July 8, 1846; died October 18, 1881.
vi John William Chafee, born May 1, 1848; married Carolina A. Latham.
vii William Hasseltine Chafee, born April 3, 1850; a planter; residence,
1893, Aiken; unmarried; has a fair complexion, gray eyes, and
is five feet, eleven inches in height.

+2295 viii George Kinlock Chafee, born September 27, 1851; married Margaret
E. Gamble.

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ix Mary Ella Chafee, born October 8, 1853; married Doctor Theodore
G. Croft.

x Robert Alexander Chafee, born November 19, 1855; married Ida B.
Williams.

xi Augustus Hayden Chafee, born August 27, 1857; died November
15, 1887.

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888 Nathan Munroe Chafee (Otis, Amos,5 Thomas, Thomas,3 Nathaniel,2 Thomas 1) was born in Newport, R. I., June 6, 1816, and died there, November 27,

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1867. He married in Newport, September 29, 1840, Harriet, daughter of Peleg and Mary (Potter) Chapman. Mrs. Chafee died in Newport, August 10, 1867, aged fifty. Both were buried in Newport. Nathan M. Chafee was a plumber. Children, born in Newport:

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i Laura S. Chafee, married Captain John Simpson, United States army, and has one child; residence, 1883, San Antonio, Texas, where Captain Simpson was then stationed.

ii Lizzie M. Chafee, born in 1843; died in Newport, August 29, 1863, and was buried there.

iii Annie Chafee, born in 1845; died in Newport, June 7, 1865, and was buried there.

iv Harriet Chafee, born in May, 1846; died in Newport, June 17, 1846, and was buried there.

v Harriet Chafee, born November 5, 1851; died in Newport, December 26, 1852, and was buried there.

vi W. B. Chapman Chafee, born in July, 1855; died in Newport, September 17, 1855, and was buried there.

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xii Nicholas Underwood Chafee, married and had one child in 1883, when he lived in Jersey City, N. J.

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895 Amos Chafee (Zechariah, Amos,5 Thomas, Thomas, Nathaniel," Thomas 1) was born in Providence, R. I., September 22, 1808, and married in New Bedford, Mass., September 22, 1833, Melory, daughter of William Tobey of that place. He was living in New Bedford in 1884, it having been his home for fifty-seven years. He was a mason.

Children:

2311 i Mary E. Chafee, born July 23, 1834; married

1884, New Bedford.

Briggs; residence,

2312 ii Laura Amelia Chafee, born January 10, 1835; died January 1, 1836. 2313 i Helen Augusta Chafee, born April 23, 1839; married Collins. 2114 iv Zechariah Chafee, born September 21, 1842. 2315 v Melory Frances Chafee, born February 17, 1844; died September 8, 1879; married in New Bedford, John F. Chamberlain.

897 Nathan Munroe Chafee (Zechariah, Amos,5 Thomas, Thomas,3 Nathaniel, Thomas 1) was born in Providence, R. I., January 24, 1813, and died in June, 1886. He married in Providence, November 16, 1835, Adeline, daughter of John Noble of that place. He had a light complexion, and blue eyes. In 1883 he lived in Providence, where he was an iron founder.

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i Zechariah Chafee, born August 26, 1836; died August 26, 1837.
ii Selina Edwards Chafee, born April 16, 1838; died September 14, 1838.
iii Caroline Frances Chafee, born September 2, 1839; died September 5,

1843.

iv Adaline Chafee, born September 6, 1841; died August 4, 1842.
v Hannah Frances Chafee, born August 11, 1843; died December 19,
1846; buried in North Burying Ground, Providence.
vi Nathan Munroe Chafee, Jr., born July 30, 1845; died August 14, 1845;
buried in North Burying Ground, Providence.

2322 vii Adaline Chafee, born October 24, 1846; unmarried in 1883. 2323 viii Cora S. Chafee, born November 15, 1848; maried James H. Smith of

Providence.

2324 ix Emma Watson Chafee, born April 2, 1850; died July 2, 1851; buried in North Burying Ground, Providence.

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898 Zechariah Chafee, Jr. (Zechariah," Amos," Thomas, Thomas,3 Nathaniel,2 Thomas 1), was born in Providence, R. I., January 11, 1815, and died there in April, 1889. He married in Providence, August 14, 1845, Mary Frances, daughter of James Buffington of Somerset, Mass. The following appreciation is condensed from the Providence Evening Bulletin:

"A figure familiar for more than 37 years to the people of Providence has disappeared forever. A personality as unique as it was impressive has been taken from that elder group of men among us who connect the chance-taking rush of to-day with the steady-going, methodical pace of the last generation. A character admirable for its masterly strength, and yet lovable for its womanly gentleness, one in which there was well blended the uncompromising force of intellect with the softening restraints of the heart, will be missed by all who knew Zechariah Chafee. Born in Providence in 1815, his boyhood foreshadowed the man. His father was a master mason and owed a debt of $1000, which through misfortune he found himself unable to pay. The son, then 11 years of age, took upon himself the burden of the father, and in the flour and grain house of the late Seth Adams he gave his labor for five years in full consideration of the debt. In his 17th year, with a slender stock of school learning, but with some hard-earned knowledge of life, he was assisted by relations to go to Pittsburg, which was then regarded as a thriving Western city, offering good opportunities to him in view of the fact that Pittsburg was at that date the principal flour and grain market of the West. Here he soon found employment, and turned to account the capital in the form of experience which had been invested in him while under Mr. Adams's rigid training. remained in Pittsburg 20 years, and raised himself to the position of junior partner in a firm whose daily sales of flour would average 1000 barrels.

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"Mr. Chafee always recurred with peculiar relish to the remembrance of this period of his life. He was naturally gifted with the talent for trade. It was a part of Mr. Chafee's employment to forage the country to contract for and purchase supplies of grain, salt and sugar, and in the winter his journey would extend down the rivers as far as New Orleans. It was in this adventurous life, and in association with the Western pioneers and with all sides of a rough civilization, that he acquired that self-confidence which was so conspicuous a trait in his character, and that keen understanding of human nature which fairly gave him the long end of the stick in dealing with men in a trial of wits.

"It was the tenderest of human ties that drew Mr. Chafee back to Providence in 1852, and induced him to abandon, at the prime of life, a business career in Pittsburg of assured success. His integrity, sound judgment and true loyalty to his friendships had knit the bonds very closely between him and his elder partner, an uncompromising bachelor, not unlike in character the one that Crane so graphically simulates on the stage. The tradition runs that the senior was greatly moved at the prospect of so rare a jewel as the junior being recut and polished by a woman's hand, and estimating the damage at $10,000, naively offered with this sum to save Mr. Chafee from this chance of injury.

"Mr. Chafee, before breaking up his business connection at Pittsburg, had contracted a then common relation with one of the State banks in Providence. Arrangements were made by which the Bank of America, which still flourishes as a State institution, and of which he was President at the time of his death, should loan currency to Mr. Chafee's firm on proper security under a contract that the

bills of the bank so furnished to him should be kept in circulation, before coming in for redemption, for an agreed number of months, and thus increase the assets of the bank available for discounting commercial paper. At that day it was the common, but often unfortunate expedient of the banks in Providence.

"In 1852, when Mr. Chafee returned to Providence, his relative, Amos Chafee Barstow, was the Mayor of Providence. Mr. Barstow, for the time abandoned the personal oversight of his extensive iron working business to devote himself to the management of the city's interests. Mr. Chafee temporarily took his place at his foundry until he could arrange for some definite employment. In the end he became interested in the High Street Furnace Company, which in time developed into the present well-known corporation of the Builders' Iron Foundry. In the general oversight of this industry Mr. Chafee remained until his death. During the Civil War this establishment supplied large orders to the Government of heavy sea-coast ordnance, and much of the success of the company was due to the address with which its manager in his frequent visits to Washington put himself upon the leeward side of old seadogs like Admiral Dahlgren, who were firm in the faith that no heavy artillery could be successfully cast and bored outside of a Government arsenal.

"The Mechanics Savings Bank, which has now grown to such stately proportions, was one of the earliest of the banks to aid the working class in raising them in the social scale. Mr. Chafee was active in this institution from its beginning, and he labored to advance the true end of its establishment during his whole remaining life. Hardly a week has elapsed during his busy career, and under circumstances when most men would have excused themselves, that he has not given his personal attention to furthering the obtaining of small loans to mechanics to enable them to secure to themselves a home.

"The public estimate of a man's character is seldom in error when the individual himself takes no pains to artificially create such estimate. Few men in Providence have had more trust duties conferred upon them than he. His books show accounts with more than 30 private estates of which he had been selected as the administrator, guardian or trustee. In many of these cases he made no charge for his personal services. Everyone in middle life knows how successfully he disentangled the Howard estate and turned over to the heirs a splendid inheritance after liquidating the claims of creditors. There are some living, and others who are dead, who owe to Mr. Chafee's friendly interposition in disaster the salvation of their estates. All such kindly offices were rendered freely and without charge. Some remembered this loving kindness; some accepted it as a matter of course, and others forgot it. There were some at his funeral who kept in mind his disinterested offices, and there were humble men and women, too, present who came from a distance to testify their remembrance, and to whom the payment of a railroad fare meant a personal deprivation.

"In the fall of 1873 the great house of the Spragues, which for three generations had been identified with the history of Rhode Island industries, was in financial trouble. The creditors assembled and accepted the proposition made by the debtors to receive a deed of copartnership and corporate properties in trust for the security of the liabilities, the payment of which was extended for three years. The office of trustee was at first eagerly sought by competitors, and three gentlemen were finally selected by the creditors as acceptable persons. The trust deed was, after much delay, perfected in form to meet the views of the counsel for the trustees elect. By that time the magnitude of the personal risks which must be assumed by trustees undertaking to run a large print works and extensive cotton mills without any other credit than that which the Quidnick Company-virtually a part of the insolvents' estate-could furnish, began to be understood. It was clear that it would be no holiday recreation to administer in liquidation this enormous estate intertangled with itself, and with the already prostrate house of Hoyt, Spragues & Co. Week after week went past without any acceptance on the part of the designated trustees. They shrank from the load of personal responsibility which they must assume, and every artifice was suggested which legal counsel of their selection could devise to lighten the measure of the risk, but the fact still

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