Pliny Earle Chase was born 18 August 1820 in Worcester, Massachusetts. He was a scientist, mathematician and educator who was graduated from Harvard in 1839 and then taught in Philadelphia. In 1871 he became a member of the faculty of Haverford College. He died 17 December 1886 in Haverford, Pennsylvania.
The Elements of Arithmetic; For Schools and Academies in which Decimal and Integral Arithmetic are Combined, and taught inductively, on the System of Pestalozzi by Pliny E. Chase. Published by Uriah Hunt and Son, Philadelphia, 1844
