Chase; November 24, 1828 – December 6, 1902) was an American social reformer and author, prominent in temperance and missionary circles.
[2][3] During the civil war, she nursed the wounded at Hallowell General Hospital near Alexandria, Virginia.
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.
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.