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| image = Arnold Buffum Chace 1845-1932.jpg
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| birth_name = 
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1845|11|10}}
| birth_place = [[Cumberland, Rhode Island]], U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1932|02|28|1845|11|10}}
| death_place = [[Providence, Rhode Island]], U.S.
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| occupation = Mathematician, banker, businessman
| alma_mater = [[Brown University]]
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| spouse = {{marriage|Eliza Greene|October 24, 1871}}
| children = 3, including [[Malcolm Greene Chace]]
| parents = {{unbulleted list|Samuel Buffington Chace|[[Elizabeth Buffum Chace]]}}
| relatives = {{unbulleted list|[[Lillie Buffum Chace Wyman]] (sister)|[[Oliver Chace]] (grandfather)}}
| resting_place = [[Swan Point Cemetery]]<ref name=SPC />
| office1 = 11th [[Brown University|Chancellor of Brown University]]
| term_start1 = 1907
| term_end1 = 1932
| predecessor1 = William Goddard
| successor1 = Henry D. Sharpe
}}

'''Arnold Buffum Chace''' (November 10, 1845 – February 28, 1932) was an American textile businessman, mathematics scholar, and eleventh chancellor of [[Brown University]] in [[Providence, Rhode Island]].

==Family==
Arnold was born November 10, 1845, in [[Cumberland, Rhode Island]].<ref name=NEF /> His paternal grandfather [[Oliver Chace]] was founder of the Valley Falls textile company, which later became [[Berkshire Hathaway]]. His parents Samuel Buffington Chace and [[Elizabeth Buffum Chace]] were [[Quaker]]s and prominent anti-slavery activists.<ref name=EB /> His maternal grandfather, [[Arnold Buffum]], was president of the [[New England Anti-Slavery Society]]. His sister [[Lillie Buffum Chace Wyman|Lillie]] became an author and social reformer.

Arnold married Eliza Chace Greene, daughter of Christopher A. and Sarah A. Greene, on October 24, 1871.<ref name=NEF /><ref name=NCAB /> Their three children were: [[Malcolm Greene Chace]], Edward Gould Chace, cotton manufacturer, and Margaret Chace, wife of Russell S. Rowland, M.D. of Detroit, MI.<ref name=NCAB />

==Academics==
Arnold Buffum Chace received his bachelor's degree from [[Brown University]] in 1866 and a Doctor of Science from Brown in 1892.<ref name=NEF /> He also studied for one year at the École de Médecine in Paris.<ref name=NEF /> Chace taught physics and mathematics for one term at Brown (1868–69),<ref name=EB /> before having to interrupt his career to handle the family textile business.<ref name=EB /> He remained involved in leadership at Brown for most of his life. In 1876, he was elected trustee; in 1882 he became treasurer; and in 1907 he was elected Chancellor.<ref name=NCAB />

Chace's lifelong passion was mathematics.<ref name=NEF /> He wrote many articles on mathematical subjects, including one called "A Certain Class of Cubic Surfaces Treated by Quaternions" in the Journal of Mathematics.<ref name=NEF /> He attended the International Mathematical Congress at Cambridge, England in 1912.<ref name=NCAB /> Chace published his work on the Egyptian [[Rhind Papyrus]] in 1927 and 1929, at age 87.<ref name=EB />

==Business and banking==
His academic career was interrupted in 1869,<ref name=NEF /> when he became responsible for his family's cotton mill on the death of a family member.<ref name=EB /> In 1871, he became a director of Westminster Bank, and in 1894 he became its president.<ref name=NEF /> He was also a director of the National Bank of North America.<ref name=NEF /> During this time, he managed to attend mathematics classes at Harvard once a week.<ref name=EB />

==Death and burial==
Chace died in Providence, Rhode Island, on February 28, 1932<ref name=EB /> and is buried at [[Swan Point Cemetery]].<ref name=SPC />

== References ==
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<ref name=EB>{{cite book|last1=Mitchell|first1=Martha|title=Encyclopedia Brunoniana|date=1993|publisher=Brown University Library|url=https://liber-brunoniana.github.io/Articles/Chace,%20Arnold%20Buffum.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250526213744/https://liber-brunoniana.github.io/Articles/Chace,%20Arnold%20Buffum.html|archive-date=26 May 2025}}</ref>
<ref name=NEF>{{cite book|last1=Cutter|first1=William Richard|title=New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial, Vol 4|date=1915|publisher=Lewis historical publishing Company|page=2158|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NegUAAAAYAAJ&q=oliver+chace&pg=PA2158|access-date=August 19, 2015}}</ref>
<ref name=SPC>{{cite web|title=Burial Information|url=http://swanpointcemetery.com/burial-information-genealogy.php|website=Swan Point Cemetery|access-date=August 19, 2015}}</ref>
<ref name=NCAB>{{cite book|last1=White|first1=J.T.|title=The National Cyclopædia of American Biography Vol 17|date=1921|pages=445–446|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5TEOAQAAMAAJ&q=malcolm+greene+chace+biography&pg=PA444-IA4|access-date=December 16, 2015}}</ref>
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==External links==
* {{findagrave|24720587}}

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