J. B. Chace    

J. B. CHACE, physician and surgeon, Corry, was born September 14, 1828, in Rochester, N.Y., and is of English and Dutch descent. He is the third child and second son in a family of eleven children. One of his brothers is a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Our subject obtained his education in the public schools of Chautauqua; read medicine with S. Brownson, of Northville, Erie County, and graduated in 1855, from the American Medical College, Cincinnati.  He is also a botanist and chemist; has manufactured pharmaceutical preparations and has been for about five years in the drug business in Corry. Dr. Chace has successfully practiced his profession in Wyandot County, Ohio, five years; in Chautauqua County, N.Y., six years, and in Corry since 1862. He was married in 1852, to Sarah Ann Winslow, born in Livingston County, N.Y., in 1832, and of English and Dutch extraction. Four children have blessed this union, viz.: Francis M. (deceased), Ellen M., James W., and Emma G., who died aged seven years.

History of Erie County, Pa Containing a History of the County: Its Townships, Towns, Villages, Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.: Portraits of the Early Settlers and Prominent Men; Biographies; etc., etc. Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1884. Read this book online More Erie County History Books   Search Hundreds of 1880s-1890s Pennsylvania County History Books for biographies and historical information on your ancestors.  View the book page images on line and print them out for your genealogy file!  Free Access to the old history books - plus birth & death records, census images and ALL other records at ancestry.com.