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Dr. Alyin" Wood Chase, physician, and author of the 

 celebrated Dr. Chase's Eeceipt Book, was born in Cajuga 

 County, New York, in 1817. He was a son of Benjamin 

 Chase, a native of the State of Massachusetts. When 

 Alvin was eleven years of age his parents located near 

 Buffalo, N. Y., where he grew to manhood, receiving a 

 very limited education, in a log school-house. His desire 

 for knowledge was so strong, coupled with an ambition 

 peculiar to his naturally energetic disposition, that he 

 far outstripped his more dilatory companions of that 

 humble institute of learning. When seventeen years old 

 he left New York and found employment on the Maumee 

 Eiver, in the meantime devoting his spare moments to 

 study. In 1840 he located at Dresden, Ohio, where in 

 the spring of 1841 he married Martha Shutts, daughter 

 of Henry and Martha Shutts, natives of New York. To 

 this noble and gifted wife, and mother of his children, may 

 be justly attributed much of the success that followed 

 the doctor during his long and eventful career. From 

 the days of his boyhood he entertained a wish to study 

 medicine, and awaited with impatience the time when he 

 might become a member of the fraternity. After many 



