Fanny DuBois Chase
{{Short description|American social reformer and author}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2024}}
{{Infobox writer
| embed =
| honorific_prefix =
| name = Fanny DuBois Chase
| honorific_suffix =
| image = Fanny DuBois Chase (1899).png
| caption =
| native_name =
| native_name_lang =
| pseudonym = Mrs. S. B. Chase
| birth_name = Fanny DuBois
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1828|11|24}}
| birth_place = Great Bend, Pennsylvania, U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1902|12|06|1828|11|24}}
| death_place = Hallstead, Pennsylvania, U.S.
| resting_place =
| occupation = {{hlist|social reformer|author}}
| language = English
| residence =
| nationality = American
| citizenship =
| education =
| alma_mater =
| period =
| genre =
| subject = {{hlist|temperance|religion}}
| movement =
| notable_works =
| spouse = {{marriage|Simeon B. Chase|1851}}
| partner =
| children = 7
| relatives =
| awards =
| signature =
}}
Fanny DuBois Chase ({{nee}}, DuBois; pen name, Mrs. S. B. Chase; November 24, 1828 – December 6, 1902) was an American social reformer and author, prominent in temperance and missionary circles. She was the first National President of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) and a former Pennsylvania State President of the organization. She was a national lecturer of the WCTU and an author of a number of books on religion and temperance.{{cite news |title=Mrs. Fanny D. B. Chase |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-new-york-times-mrs-fanny-d-b-chas/137915298/ |access-date=2024-01-02 |via=Newspapers.com |newspaper=The New York Times |publication-date=7 December 1902 |page=7 |place=Susquehanna, Pennsylvania |date=1902-12-06}} {{open access}}
Biography
Fanny DuBois was born in Great Bend, Pennsylvania, November 24, 1828.{{sfn|Burleigh|1887|p=104}} Her parents were Abraham and Juliet (Bowes) Du Bois.{{sfn|Stocker|1887|p=188}}
On May 1, 1851, she married Simeon B. Chase. Their children were Nicholas (b. 1852), Martha (b. 1854), Marcella (b. 1856), Emmet (b. 1858), Amasa (b. 1862), Simeon (b. 1864), and Catherine (b. 1867).{{sfn|Burleigh|1887|p=104}}{{sfn|Stocker|1887|p=188}}
During the civil war, she nursed the wounded at Hallowell General Hospital near Alexandria, Virginia.{{sfn|Beaman|John|1998|p=27}}
She was active in the temperance cause with her husband from 1854 until 1874. She was a delegate to the First Woman's National Temperance Convention in 1874 in Cleveland, Ohio, which organized the National WCTU, and was chosen vice-president for Pennsylvania, and the same winter called and presided over the convention that organized, and was the first president of, the WCTU in Pennsylvania. She held the office of president for five years thereafter, and was State superintendent of the Sunday-school department of their work thereafter. Chase was the author of a book on Good Templar work entitled, Derry's Lake, which was republished in Edinburgh and London. She also wrote the three degrees, "Faith, Hope and Charity" in the Good Templars' Ritual, which were translated into eighteen different languages.{{sfn|Stocker|1887|p=188}}
She died at her home at Hallstead, Pennsylvania, December 6, 1902.
Selected works
- Derry's Lake, 1870
- Glimpses of a Popular Movement; Or, Sketches of the W.C.T.U. of Pennsylvania, 1899
References
{{reflist}}
=Attribution=
- {{source-attribution| {{cite book|last=Burleigh|first=Charles|title=The Genealogy and History of the Guild, Guile and Gile Family|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G5lPAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA104|edition=Public domain|year=1887|publisher=B. Thurston & Company}} }}
- {{source-attribution| {{cite book|last=Stocker|first=Rhamanthus Menville|title=Centennial History of Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania|url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924028854689/page/n297/mode/2up|edition=Public domain|year=1887|publisher=R. T. Peck}} }}
=Bibliography=
- {{cite book|last1=Beaman|first1=Libby|author-link=Libby Beaman|last2=John|first2=Betty|title=Libby: The Sketches, Letters & Journal of Libby Beaman, Recorded in the Pribilof Islands, 1879-1880|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zOc61xX8FiIC|year=1998|publisher=Council Oak Books|isbn=978-1-57178-067-6}}
{{authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Chase, Fanny DuBois}}
Category:Presidents of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Category:American social reformers
Category:Temperance activists from Pennsylvania
Category:19th-century American non-fiction writers
Category:American religious writers
Category:American women religious writers
Category:19th-century American women writers
Category:People from Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania