John Darwin CHASE

                   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.