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amounts, bad beeu very successful, and brought in fares ranging from 

 80,0U(> to 90,000 pounds of codtisb. As soon as tbey arrived at Glou 

 cester and reported bow much tbe voyages bad been benefited by the 

 use of frozen herring, the owners at once sent an oider to Captain 

 Smith, who was in Boston, for 30,000 herring; but at this time all of 

 the fish had been dis])Osed of for food, and consequently the Georges- 

 men could not obtain them. Nevertheless, the seed had been sown 

 from which the frozen-herring trade has grown to its present proi)or- 

 tions, exerting an almost incalculable influence on the fisheries as well 

 as i^rovidiug the masses with a large amount of cheap and wholesome 

 food. 



39.— MIIVrTE rTI»0:V the BEATH of OREN ITI. C'HAvSE, oeorqe w. 

 ARTIIi^TKO.'SO, AlSn CIIARI>E$i H. UKOtVIVEI^Ii. 



By THE MICHIGAN BOARD OF FISH CO.IIMISSIOI^ERS. 



The Michigan State Board of Fish Commissioners directs this minute 

 to be spread upon its records in respectful and affectionate remem- 

 brance of a friend, as well as in sincere sorrow for the loss of their 

 most efficient and helpful officer, Oren IM. Chase, superintendent of 

 fisheries for the State of Michigan, and in memory of two of his most 

 trusted and respected assistants, George W. Armstrong and Charles 

 H. Brownell, the overseer and assistant of the Petoskey Station. 



In the fateful storm which swept over the Great Lakes on the 11th 

 day of November, 1883, which will long be remembered throughout this 

 State by reason of the loss of life occasioned, Oren M. Chase, George 

 "VV. Armstrong, and Charles H. Brownell, w^hile engaged upon the work 

 of this commission, were drowned in Little Traverse Bay, opposite the 

 village of Petoskey. 



No man who knew either of them doubts that thev each met death as 

 bravely and quietly as they met the duties and responsibilities of life, 

 nor do we doubt that they made as brave a stiuggle for life as ever men 

 made when overwhelmed by cruel seas and bitter cold which no mortal 

 strength or skill could overcome or long resist. For each possessed 

 the best things that made life dear and worth a manful struggle to re- 

 tain, as sterling characters, health, and a hopeful future of honorable 

 usefulness in their chosen work, and, more potent still, homes where 

 their loss can never be repaired. 



Oren M. Chase was born at Eochester, in the State of New York, in 

 the year 1840, where he spent his childhood, and at the age of about 

 twenty years removed to Michigan, beginning life as a farmer near 

 Dimoudale. By his own elibrts he cleared a farm of about 40 acres, 

 upon which he remained for a number of years, and then returned to 

 Eochester to reside. After his returube was emi)loyed by the New 

 York Central Eailroad as bag^gagc master at Eochester. While con- 



