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Chase, Champion Spalding

lawyer, statesman, was born March 20, 1820, in Cornish, N. H. In 1856 he was elected to the Wisconsin state senate; and in 1862 was commissioned paymaster in the union army, with the rank of major of cavalry. In 1866 he went to Omaha, and was the first attorney-general of that state. In 1874 he was elected mayor of Omaha, and served seven years. He has held many positions of honor, and in 1872 the Nebraska legislature named Chase county for him; and the citizens of Champion, a manufacturing town in that county, adopted his first name for their town.