Who is Kate Chase?
(Chevy Chase, MD; Lincoln's SecTreas was Salmon P. Chase-served 1861-64)
Variants of the "Chevy Chase" name go back to the early eighteenth century. It has nothing to do with Salmon P. Chase's family.
From the Town of Chevy Chase website, "history" page:
"Newlands' key early purchase was Chevy Chase, a 305-acre plot of land straddling the line between Maryland and the District of Columbia. The name, which he subsequently adopted for the entire new subdivision, can be traced to the larger tract of land called "Cheivy Chace" that was patented to Colonel Joseph Belt from Lord Baltimore on July 10, 1725. It has historic associations to a 1388 battle between Lord Percy of England and Earl Douglas of Scotland. At issue in this "chevauchee" (a Scottish word describing a border raid) were hunting grounds or a "chace" in the Cheviot Hills of Northumberland and Otterburn."