Chase
Chase names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Chase WILLIAM MERRITT, an American artist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
WILLIAM MERRITT, an American artist, born in Franklin, Ind., Nov. 1, 1849. He studied painting in oil at the National Academy in New York and subsequently in Europe with Piloty. He made a specialty of portraits, figure pieces, and still life. Examples of his art are to be found in many public and private galleries in this country. He was elected a National Academician in 1890. Besides having been one of the most brilliant technicians of the American school, he was particularly successful as a teacher. He died in 1916. CHASSEUR (shäs-er') a male attendant upon persons of distinction, attired in a military dress, and wearing a sword. It is also the name given by the French to bodies of light infantry which act as skirmishers and sharpshooters. sharpshooters. The name was originally given to some troops raised in 1815, in imitation of the Jägers of the Austrian army, who were chiefly Tyrolese chamois-hunters, and unerring marksmen. The French Chasseurs are of two kinds, light cavalry and infantry. The Chasseurs of the Italian army are called Bersaglieri.
Chase SALMON PORTLAND, an American jurist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
SALMON PORTLAND, an American jurist, born in Cornish, N. H., Jan. 13, 1808; educated at Windsor, Vt., in his uncle's family at Columbus, O., and in Dartmouth College; taught school in Washington, while studying law with William Wirt; opened law practice in Cincinnati, where he edited the "Ohio Statutes," and came to public notice. In 1846 he argued the Fugitive Slave Law with William H. Seward, in a celebrated case, and his support of the anti-slavery cause soon made him the leader of the Liberty party, and a leading spirit in the Free-Soil and Republican parties. In 1849 he was elected to the United States Senate; in 1855 Governor of Ohio; in 1860 was a prominent candidate for the Republican Presidential nomination; ap- CATHEDRAL AT CHARTRES pointed Secretary of the Treasury by President Lincoln, in 1861, and in 1864 became Chief Justice, in which office he presided at the impeachment trial of President Johnson. He died in New York City, May 7, 1873.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's called William Merritt Chase in 1921 "one of the most brilliant technicians of the American school" and "particularly successful as a teacher" — that teaching is now the larger part of his legacy. The art school he opened in New York in 1896 grew into what is today Parsons School of Design, his Shinnecock summer classes on Long Island became a model for outdoor art instruction, and his pupils included Georgia O'Keeffe and Edward Hopper; his own canvases, out of fashion for decades, were restored to favour by major retrospectives and now hang in the Metropolitan Museum and elsewhere. Salmon Portland Chase's public record is as Collier's gives it, but his afterlife has been odder than the entry suggests: the Chase National Bank, ancestor of today's JPMorgan Chase, was named in his honour by financiers he never met, and his portrait appeared on the $10,000 bill until it was withdrawn from circulation in 1969. Modern historians also give more weight to two things the 1921 sketch passes over — his opinion in Texas v. White (1869), still quoted for the phrase "an indestructible Union," and his years of courtroom work for fugitive slaves, which earned him the nickname "attorney general for runaway negroes."
Written for this edition, 2026.