Sydney Octavius Chase and Joshua Coffin Chase at the Chase & Company Office in Sanford

Sydney Octavius Chase and Joshua Coffin Chase at the Chase & Company Office in Sanford

Sydney and Joshua Chase

Sanford (Fla.)

Chase and Company (Sanford, Fla.)

Chase, Joshua Coffin, 1858-1948

Chase, Sydney Octavius, 1860-1941

Brothers and business partner Joshua Coffin Chase and Sydney Octavius Chase in front of the Company office, located at 110 West First Street in Sanford, in 1895. Chase & Company was established in 1884 by the Chase brothers. The company sold insurance and later invested in storage facilities and fertilizer sales. Chase & Company was known mainly for its agricultural interests and maintained a series of citrus groves throughout Central Florida. The company was based out of Sanford and became one of the city's largest employers into the early twentieth century.

Original 5 x 7 inch black and white photograph, December 16, 1895: Chase Collection (MS 14), box 213, folder 15.101, item CC9, Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.

1895-12-16

Digital reproduction of original 5 x 7 inch black and white photograph, December 16, 1895.

Chase Collection (MS 14), box 213, folder 15.101, Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.

Sanford Collection, Chase Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.

Folder referenced in Chase Collection finding guide, http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/pkyonge/chase.htm.

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Chase & Company Office, Sanford, Florida

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Entire Chase Collection is comprised of four separate accessions from various donors, including Cecilia Johnson, the granddaughter of Joshua Coffin Chase and the children of Randall Chase.

The displayed collection item is housed at Special and Area Studies Collections at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. Rights to this item belong to the said institution, and therefore inquiries about the item should be directed there. RICHES of Central Florida has obtained permission from Special and Area Studies Collections at the University of Florida to display this item for educational purposes only.

Special and Area Studies Collections, University of Florida

Digital Collections (UFDC), University of Florida

Cepero, Laura

University of Florida, Special and Area Studies Collections

"Sydney Chase Sr. (1860-1941)." Florida Citrus Hall of Fame. Copyright 2012. http://floridacitrushalloffame.com/index.php/inductees/inductee-name/?ref_cID=89&bID=0&dd_asId=600.

Sanford Historical Society (Fla.). Sanford. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2003.

Sanford, Fla.
Monday, Dec. 16, 1895
J. C. Chase
S. O. Chase
First Street office

1 black and white photograph

5 x 7 inch black and white photograph