Edward G. Chace

Edward Gould Chase (1882–1935) was an American businessman and an entrepreneur in textile manufacturing. Chase led the organization of the Fort Dummer Mills in Brattleboro, Vermont, a cotton mill, and he served as the founding manager. He also served as a vice president and the treasurer of Berkshire Fine Spinning Associates, a predecessor of Berkshire Hathaway. Early life and education Chace was born to Arnold Buffum Chace and Eliza Greene Chase in Providence, Rhode Island on October 16, 1882. His father, Arnold Chace, served as the 11th chancellor of Brown University and studied Egyptology. Chace's grandmother, Elizabeth Buffum Chace, served as an activist in the women's rights and anti-slavery movements. His brother, Malcolm Greene Chace, won the National Intercollegiate Tennis Championship in three consecutive years; the International Tennis Hall of Fame inducted him in 1961. Chace was also a cousin of physicist Richard Chace Tolman and psychologist Edward Chace Tolman. Both were sons of Arnold Chace's sister. Chase did his early studies at the University Grammar School, a private school in Providence. He then completed his high school education at Morristown School (now Morristown-Beard School) in Morristown, New Jersey in 1900. After studying at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, he earned his bachelor's degree from Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts in 1905. Chace then worked as a tax assessor in Lincoln, Rhode Island from 1906 to 1909.