Lewis O. Chasey
A variety of service has characterized the life of Lewis O. Chasey thus far, embracing educational, military and agricultural activities, in all of which he has given an excellent account of himself and warranted to the fullest measure the high esteem that is accorded to him as a citizen of Franklin township and the proprietor of what is known as Fairview Farm. Mr. Chasey was born in Franklin Township, on December 28, 1877, and is the son of Elmer Chasey and his wife, Sarah (Lloyd) Chasey.
Concerning the parents of the subject, it may be said that Elmer Chasey was born in Wabash County, Indiana, and there reared, and that he came to Grant County when he was about the age of eighteen years. He was educated in the public schools of his native county, and his marriage occurred some little time after he had located in Grant County, and since the death of her husband, who passed away on May 1, 1911, she has lived nine miles southwest from Marion in Franklin Township. They were the parents of five children:
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Lewis OP., of this review.
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Minnie B., who is the wife of Horace Kurtz, of Wabash County, Indiana.
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Mary A., the wife of George Stoddard of Marion.
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Benjamin H., who married Opal Pierce and lives in Marion, Indiana.
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Hallie, who is unmarried, and makes her home with her mother.
Lewis O. Chasey was reared in Franklin Township, as has been previously stated, and after finishing the common schools of his community, he entered the Fairmount Academy, following the teachers normal course of instruction, and when he had completed this course he gave his attention to the teaching profession. For four year she was employed in that capacity in Grant County in the public schools, but gave up that work to enlist in Company A of the one Hundred and Sixtieth Indiana Volunteer Infantry. He served on year in the Spanish-American war with ;his regiment, and after three months in Cuba, was discharged at Savannah, Georgia, with the others of his regiment, in April 26, 1899. He returned thereupon to Indiana, coming to Grant County, and here, on August 18, 1901, he was untied in marriage with Laura Harris, a daughter of B. C. Harris, of Marion, Indiana. She was a graduate of the Fairmount Academy, in the normal course, although she never put to use in a public way her training she there received. To them four children have been born: Pennina; Beatrice; Hugh and Hal. Mrs. Chasey is a member of the Friends Church, and she is rearing the children in that simple faith. Mr. Chasey devotes himself to his farming activities, thirty acres of which he owns, and in addition he operates one hundred acres of rented land. His success has been a pleasing one, and he stand well forward among he capable men of the community. Mr. Chasey is a Republican in his political faith, but takes no especial interest in the activities of the party and has never sought office in his community. His citizenship, however, is undeniably of the right sort, and he wields an excellent influence in his community where he has spent his entire life and where he has a wide circle of stanch friends.
Centennial History of Grant County Indiana 1812-1912. The Lewis Publishing Co., 1914.