Editing Chevy Chase (section)

=== Family ===
Cornelius Crane Chase was born in [[Lower Manhattan]] on October 8, 1943,<ref>{{cite web|title=Chevy Chase biography|url=http://www.biography.com/people/chevy-chase-9542517|publisher=Biography.com|access-date=October 17, 2013|archive-date=April 3, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190403103538/https://www.biography.com/people/chevy-chase-9542517|url-status=live}}</ref> and grew up in [[Woodstock, New York]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nymag.com/arts/tv/profiles/48252/|title=Is Chevy Chase a Potential Successor to Johnny Carson?|website=New York Magazine|date=June 26, 2008|access-date=December 30, 2020|archive-date=September 19, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200919214158/https://nymag.com/arts/tv/profiles/48252/|url-status=live}}</ref> He has an older brother, Ned Jr.<ref name=sober/>

His father, Edward Tinsley "Ned" Chase (1919–2005),<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/17/books/edward-chase-86-longtime-book-editor-is-dead.html|title=Edward Chase, 86, Longtime Book Editor, Is Dead (Published 2005)|date=June 17, 2005|access-date=December 30, 2020|website=The New York Times|archive-date=November 19, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201119131910/https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/17/books/edward-chase-86-longtime-book-editor-is-dead.html|url-status=live}}</ref> was a [[Princeton University|Princeton]]-educated Manhattan book editor and magazine writer.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://paw.princeton.edu/memorial/edward-tinsley-chase-%E2%80%9941 |title=Edward Tinsley Chase '41 &#124; Princeton Alumni Weekly |access-date=September 20, 2018 |archive-date=July 27, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200727213946/https://paw.princeton.edu/memorial/edward-tinsley-chase-%E2%80%9941 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Chase's paternal grandfather was artist and illustrator [[Edward Leigh Chase]], and his great-uncle was painter and teacher [[Frank Swift Chase]]. His mother, Cathalene Parker (née Browning; 1923–2005), was a concert pianist and [[Libretto|librettist]], whose father, [[Rear admiral (United States)|Rear Admiral]] [[Miles Browning]], served as Admiral [[Raymond A. Spruance]]'s Chief of Staff on the aircraft carrier [[USS Enterprise (CV-6)|USS ''Enterprise'']] at the [[Battle of Midway]] in [[World War II]]. Cathalene was adopted as a child by her stepfather, [[Cornelius Vanderbilt Crane]], heir to [[Crane Co.|The Crane Company]], and took the name Catherine Crane.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1962/07/11/archives/explorers-survivor-omitted.html | work=The New York Times | title=Explorer's Survivor Omitted | date=July 11, 1962 | archive-date=July 5, 2018 | access-date=July 27, 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180705064421/https://www.nytimes.com/1962/07/11/archives/explorers-survivor-omitted.html | url-status=live }}</ref> Her mother, also named Cathalene, was an opera singer who performed several times at [[Carnegie Hall]].<ref name="BurginHoltz2009">{{cite book|author1=Martha Burgin|author2=Maureen Holtz|title=Robert Allerton: the private man & the public gifts|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eWgmAQAAMAAJ|year=2009|publisher=The News-Gazette|page=132|isbn=978-0-9798420-7-8}}</ref>

Chase was named for his adoptive grandfather, Cornelius, while the nickname "Chevy" was bestowed by his grandmother from the medieval English ballad "[[The Ballad of Chevy Chase]]". As a descendant of the Scottish [[Clan Douglas]], she thought the name appropriate.<ref name="I'm Chevy Chase...and You're Not">Fruchter, Rena. ''I'm Chevy Chase...and You're Not''. Virgin Books, 2007.</ref>

According to his step-brother John:

{{cquote|[Chevy] once told me that people who defined themselves in terms of their ancestry were like potatoes—the best parts of them were underground. He disdained the pretension of his mother's side of the family, as embodied by her mother, Cattie.<ref name="I'm Chevy Chase...and You're Not" />}}