"A Woman of the Century"

Louise L. Chase (née Bond; September 2, 1840 – September 19, 1906) was an American social reformer. She was elected president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (W.C.T.U.) of Middletown, Rhode Island, and elected president of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Newport, Rhode Island.[1][2]

Biography

Louise L. Bond was born in Warren, Massachusetts, September 2, 1840.[1] She was a daughter of Samuel Bond (1796-1873) and Mary (Damon) Bond (1803-?). Louise had three siblings, John, Maria, and Samuel.[3]

Soon after her birth, her parents moved to Brimfield, Massachusetts, where she received her education, entering the Hitchcock free high school at the age of 13. Her attendance in that school was interrupted by a temporary residence in Columbia, Connecticut, where she attended a private school. She returned to Brimheld and finished her course at the age of 16.[1]

In 1857, she took up her residence in Lebanon, Connecticut, and there married, in 1861, Alfred W. Chase, a native of Bristol, Rhode Island. Mr. and Mrs. Chase soon removed to Brooklyn, Connecticut, and in 1882, to Middletown, Rhode Island, the home of Mr. Chase's family.[1]

The W.C.T.U. of Middletown was organized in 1882 and Chase was elected one of the vice-presidents.[4] In 1885, she was elected president of the W.C.T.U. of Middletown, and in that way became prominent in the work. She was elected State vice-president of the W.C.T.U., and at about the same time, State superintendent of the department of Sabbath observance. In 1886, she represented the State in the National Convention in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She was elected, in 1891, State superintendent of scientific temperance instruction in schools.[1][5]

Chase was affiliated with the New England branch of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church.[6] Shortly before her death, she was elected president of that organization in Newport, Rhode Island. Louise L. Chase died in Newport, September 19, 1906.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice (1893). "CHASE, Mrs. Louise L.". A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life. Charles Wells Moulton. pp. 169–70. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  2. 1 2 "Obituary, Mrs. Alfred W. Chase, 19 Sep 1906, Newport, Rhode Island". Newport Mercury. 22 September 1906. p. 1. Retrieved 14 December 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ↑ "Louise L. Bond 2 September 1840 – 19 September 1906 • G34F-Y9G". www.familysearch.org. Retrieved 14 December 2022.
  4. ↑ Bayles, Richard Mather (1888). History of Newport County, Rhode Island: From the Year 1638 to the Year 1887, Including the Settlement of Its Towns, and Their Subsequent Progress. L. E. Preston & Company. p. 794. Retrieved 14 December 2022. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  5. ↑ Logan, Mrs John A. (1912). The Part Taken by Women in American History. Perry-Nalle Publishing Company. p. 674. Retrieved 14 December 2022. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  6. ↑ "Entered Into Life". Woman's Missionary Friend. Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, Methodist Episcopal Church. 38 (12): 449. December 1906. Retrieved 14 December 2022. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
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