Carlton Chase

The Right Reverend

Carlton Chase

D.D.
Bishop of New Hampshire
ChurchEpiscopal Church
DioceseNew Hampshire
ElectedOctober 4, 1843
In office1844–1870
PredecessorAlexander Viets Griswold
SuccessorWilliam Woodruff Niles
Orders
OrdinationSeptember 27, 1820
by Alexander Viets Griswold
ConsecrationOctober 20, 1844
by Thomas Church Brownell
Personal details
BornFebruary 20, 1794
Hopkinton, New Hampshire, United States
DiedJanuary 18, 1870(1870-01-18) (aged 75)
Claremont, New Hampshire, United States
DenominationAnglican
ParentsCharles Chase & Sarah Currier
SpouseHarriet Cutler (m. September 13, 1820)
Alma materDartmouth College (1817), University of Vermont (DD 1844)

Carlton Chase (February 20, 1794 – January 18, 1870) was the first Bishop of the Diocese of New Hampshire in the Episcopal Church in the United States of America.

Early life

Chase was born in Hopkinton, New Hampshire, the son of Captain Charles Chase and Sarah (Currier) Chase.[1] He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1817.[2] He was ordained deacon in 1818 and ordained priest in 1820 by Alexander Viets Griswold.[2] After his ordination, Chase moved to Bellows Falls, Vermont and became the rector of Immanuel Church.[2] Not long after arriving in Bellows Falls, Chase married an inhabitant of that town, Harriet Cutler.[3] They would go on to have eight children.[3] He remained at Immanuel until his consecration as bishop in 1844, receiving a doctor of divinity during his time there from the University of Vermont.[2]

Bishop of New Hampshire

He was consecrated along with Nicholas Hamner Cobbs and Cicero S. Hawks in Philadelphia on October 20, 1844. After his elevation to the episcopate, he moved to Claremont, New Hampshire, where he also served as rector of Trinity Church.[4] Chase made pastoral visitations to the Episcopal Diocese of New York in 1850, 1851, and 1852 in the midst of difficulties related to the trial and suspension of Bishop Benjamin Treadwell Onderdonk.[4] He died January 18, 1870, and was buried in Claremont.[4]

Notes

  1. ^ Niles 1906, p. 48.
  2. ^ a b c d Batterson 1878, p. 140.
  3. ^ a b Lord 1890, p. 333.
  4. ^ a b c Batterson 1878, p. 141.

References

  • Batterson, Hermon Griswold (1878). A Sketch-book of the American Episcopate. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippencott & Co. Retrieved 2009-07-31.
  • Lord, Charles Chase (1890). Life and times in Hopkinton, N.H. Concord, N.H.: Republican Press Association. Retrieved 2009-07-31.
  • Niles, William Woodruff (1906). "Carlton Chase, First Bishop of New Hampshire". Proceedings of the New Hampshire Historical Society. IV.
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