John Darwin CHASE
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HISTORICAL NOTES: John Darwin Chase married Priscilla Ann McHenry and had two children, Amos and James, in Nauvoo. John and the family set out on the plains to Salt Lake, but Priscilla and infant son James decided to return, and did not continue with John. John continued with his son Amos, and married Almira Higgins on the way to Salt Lake. John was enlisted in the Mormon Batallion and left Amos with Almira. Later, John married Elizabeth Jane Tuttle, who had come to Salt Lake with her two daughters when her husband, Joseph Wellington Coolidge, became estranged from the Church after trying to convince the leadership to go to Washington and not Utah. Amos married Eleanor Coolidge, his step-sister, a daughter of Joseph Wellington Coolidge and Eleanor Jane Tuttle. Additional information in notes. In Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah pg 800 & 113. Ordained High Priest 14 April 1844 in Nauvoo. Nauvoo Temple Endowment Register pg 67. SEB pg 403-408 Nauvoo 1842 Census Mormon Battalion 3rd Corporal in Company B. PROPERTY: NAU: Blk 121 Lot 1 - tenant KIM 2nd: Blk 18 Lot 3 Book of Patriarchal Blessings Index Volume 4 page 476. Officiator: Hyrum Smith 3/26/1843. LDS Biographical Encyclopedia. Jenson, Andrew. 1951 Volume 4 page 623, 738. Huntington and Moroni Ward Records. Mormons and their Neoighbors. Wiggins, Marvin. Ordained Bishop by Erastus Snow 01/08/1856 in Ephriam, Sanpete, Utah. According to "Mormon Manuscripts to 1846" John was a counselor to a Bishop in Nauvoo and then the Bishop in the same Ward. Mission: Vermont, England (1861-1863) 1863-1865. See LDS Biographical Encyclopedia. Veteran of the Black Hawk war. Buildings: Helped build the Old Fort in Great Salt Lake City, helped build the first sawmill in Utah (Chase's Mill south of the city.) John was called to the Carson Valley Mission, where he acted as a High Councilor, remaining there until the colony broke up. John settled in Nephi, Juab, Utah. John was a member of the Juab Stake High Council.
He married Almira Higgins 7 Feb 1846 at Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois . Almira Higgins was born at Florence, Huron, Ohio 28 May 1830 .
They were the parents of 12
children:
Clarissa Chase
born 12 Jun 1848.
John Darwin Chase
born 25 Jun 1849.
Almira Chase
born 30 Mar 1851.
Amy Chase
born 20 Nov 1853.
George Albert Chase
born 7 Oct 1854.
Drucilla Chase
born 11 Jun 1856.
Mary Chase
born 9 Nov 1857.
Ruth Chase
born 12 Oct 1859.
Samuel Chase
born 10 Dec 1862.
Mariam Chase
born 13 Jul 1864.
Sarah Chase
born 3 Jul 1867.
John Darwin Chase
born 12 Dec 1871.
John Darwin Chase died 21 Jul 1902 at Huntington, Emery, Utah .
Almira Higgins died 23 Feb 1873 at Moroni, Sanpete, Utah .