The Earle family : Ralph Earle and his descendants

Gen.] GENEALOGY. 215
by virtue of that office, manifest her sincerity of purpose. Her writ-
ings in opposition to the practice of vivisection are among the most
able that have been published upon that subject.
Richard P. White is associated with his brother-in-law, George
H. Earle, in the practice of law, and is one of the most prominent
and successful lawyers of the Philadelphia Bar. As a pleader he has
few equals.
[870-3]. Lydia 7 Earle (Pliny, 6 Robert,* Robert^ Ralph,*
William, 2 Ralph 1
), dau. of Pliny and Patience (Buffum)
Earle, b. March 24, 1798, in Leicester, Mass. ; m. June
2, 1819, Anthony (b. June 16, 1791 ; d. Aug. 4, 1879),
of Worcester, Mass., son of Israel and Matilda (Butterworth)
Chase, of Leicester, Mass. They lived in Worcester,
where she d. May 2, 1852. Anthony Chase m.
2d, April 19, 1854, Hannah (b. April 26, 1824), dau. of
Daniel and Phebe (Greene) Greene, of East Greenwich,
R. I., and had two children, Emily Greene, who m.
Joseph Russel Marble, and lives in Worcester; and
Frederick Anthony, d. Sept., 1862.
In allusion to Lydia Earle Chase, the writer of a memoir of her
son Pliny says, "She was a woman of remarkable strength of mind
and independence of character." To this it may be added that, in
her home life she furnished a notable demonstration of the ability to
conceive, and the energy to put into practice, a prudent, wise and
thrifty household economy ; and that, in conscientious devotion to
her duties in the relations of wife, mother and neighbor, she was an
exemplar worthy of a large following.
The following sketch is abridged from Comley's History of Massa-
chusetts :
Anthony Chase was born of a family honorably distinguished in
New England from the first settlement of Massachusetts. His youth
was spent upon a farm, and his education was acquired at a district
school and at Leicester Academy. Owing to the untimely death of
his father, he lived some years in Uxbridge and Berlin, but in early
manhood (July, 1816), he removed to Worcester and entered into
mercantile business with his future brother-in-law, John Milton