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Incredible History On 1882 Post Card

 
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Posted 05/14/2011   09:35 am  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add lockumupthrowawaykey to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
I just today looked up The recipient of a post card I have from 1882 a Horace G. Chase II Hopkinton, New Hampshire. I found all sorts of history. His father (of the same name) Was a Grand Master Mason and the first living Grand Master to have a lodge named in honor of him. The lodge is still in Peacock, New Hampshire today Horace Chase Lodge #72 F,&A,M.
The son ran a Firm in Chicago called Chase Bros. and Company. During the great Chicago fire His firm and a couple others were able to rescue most of their records and merge into one company. They saved enough records that chaos was averted in determining who owned what in Chicago. The Company eventually became Chicago Title Co.

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Posted 05/14/2011   09:58 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add wt1 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Great historical info. Did you come across this photo? First pictured is said to be Horace Gair Chase, as contained on the Chicago Title Insurance Co. web site:




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Although the original of this photograph is unlabelled, resemblances with other portraits in the Chicago Title and Trust Co. archives strongly suggest that these gentleman are the three Chase Brothers. From left to right are Horace G. Chase, Samuel B. Chase and Charles C. Chase, circa 1894.
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Posted 05/14/2011   10:08 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add lockumupthrowawaykey to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Isn't it incredible what can be found. I will start looking up more covers.
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Posted 05/14/2011   11:24 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add jhlovell to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I love the background history that wt1 always seems to dig up. Super card, super story!
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Posted 05/14/2011   11:30 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add smauggie to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
F & AM means "Free and Accepted Masons" for any who might wonder.
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Posted 05/14/2011   11:33 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add jhlovell to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Gotta check that group of Chase's. Have a lot of them on the computer with my genealogy. Could be related.
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Posted 05/14/2011   11:52 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add nitrolures to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
With how fast WT digs up the info he does and its always spot on, I think he could solve the divinci code. ( had to add that being mason's in the subject).
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Posted 05/14/2011   12:03 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add echizento to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Very interesting.
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Posted 05/15/2011   09:16 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add I_Love_Stamps to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Whoa how neat! I believe I've got something from them also...maybe. I'll have to poke around and see. I so enjoy seeing the background info on the covers/postal card correspondence.

EDIT: Nope I guess not but I do have same postal card. I'll post in new thread. Sorry.

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Edited by I_Love_Stamps - 05/15/2011 09:26 am
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