Henry Valentine Chase, Sr.

Obituary: DEATH OF HENRY V. CHASE -- Former Country Clerk at Olathe in business Here for Years -- Henry V. Chase, 78 years old, 2941 Askew Avenue, died today at the Trinity Lutheran Hospital. He was secretary and treasurer of the old Newby Transfer and Storage Company for twenty-two years, before he retired from active business eleven years ago. Mr. Chase was born in Dover, New Hampshire. Having already moved west to Iowa, his family settled in 1860 at Shawnee, Kansas, where his father and mother worked with the missionaries. He was graduated from the University of Kansas in the class of 1880, and at last year's commencement at Lawrence he was the oldest living graduate present. Mr. Chase was county clerk at Olathe, Kansas, for eight years before he came to Kansas City. He was one of the charter members of the Friends Quaker church here.

He leaves his widow, Mrs. Anna Grace Chase of the home; one son, Henry V. Chase, Jr., Wilmington Delaware; three daughters, Mrs. Alice Cox, Wilmington; Mrs. Eva Lucy Nagle, Bessemer, Alabama, and Mrs. Marianna Ackerman, Kansas City, Kansas, and one sister, Mrs. Phoebe Barnard, Fort Worth, Texas.

Funeral services were held at 2 o'clock Sunday at the Friends Quaker church (29th and Bales), thirtieth street and Bales avenue. Burial was in Olathe, Kansas. Beside the many friends and relatives from Kansas City who accompanied the body of Mr. Chase to Olathe cemetery, were men and women of Olathe who had known him fifty years ago and bought their first primer and later their Virgil from him.

Mr. Chase owned the Book Store in Olathe, located in the same place as the present one today. Fifty years is a long time; Olathe streets are brick instead of mud - sidewalks are cement instead of uneven boards, and instead of just one place where school books were to be had, there are a number, but on this Old Settlers Day, those long ago children regret the passing of this friend of their childhood.

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