GEORGE FREDERIC CHATFIELD, son of Henry Beach and Ida Elizabeth (Adt) CHATFIELD, was born March 11, 1881, in New Haven, Conn. He was prepared for college in the Boardman Manual Training High School there, and took the Chemical course in the Sheffield Scientific School. After graduation he studied a year at Heidelberg University, Germany, and traveled a while in Europe. On his return he became a chemist for the Gulf Refining Co. at Port Arthur, Texas, and in 1907 chief chemist of the Waters-Pierce Oil Co. While at their refinery at Tampico, Mex, he was taken ill with the coast fever and was obliged to resign his position. He made a long sea voyage along the coast of Mexico and South America, and later went to Cuba, Spain, and France.
Upon his return in 1909 he became chemist and engineer for the Valvohne Oil Co at Edgewater, N J, and from November, 1913, held the same position with the Indian Refining Co. at Lawrenceville, Ill, where he died from heart trouble, January 8, 1914. He was in his 33d year. The burial was in New Haven.
He married in Newport, RI, January 24, 1911, Clementina Augusta, daughter of Eugenio and Agnes (Jackson) Marinelli. She survives him, also his parents and a sister.
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