Fanny DuBois Chase

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Fanny DuBois Chase (born Fanny DuBois; pen name Mrs. S. B. Chase) was an American social reformer and author who worked for temperance and religious causes. She was born November 24, 1828, in Great Bend, Pennsylvania, to Abraham and Juliet Du Bois. She married Simeon B. Chase on May 1, 1851, and they had seven children: Nicholas, Martha, Marcella, Emmet, Amasa, Simeon, and Catherine.

During the Civil War she nursed wounded soldiers at Hallowell General Hospital near Alexandria, Virginia. From 1854 to 1874 she and her husband were active in the temperance movement. She served as a delegate to the first Woman's National Temperance Convention in 1874 in Cleveland, which organized the National WCTU. She was chosen vice-president for Pennsylvania, and that winter helped organize the Pennsylvania WCTU, becoming its first president. She later served as Pennsylvania's state president for five years and as the state superintendent of the Sunday-school department.

Chase wrote several works on religion and temperance. Her book Derry's Lake about Good Templar work was republished in Edinburgh and London. She also wrote the three degrees Faith, Hope and Charity for the Good Templars' Ritual, which have been translated into eighteen languages.

Fanny DuBois Chase died December 6, 1902, at her home in Hallstead, Pennsylvania, aged 74.