In 1972 a review of pilgrimages noted Chase's across a few paragraph's in some detail taking from his "In Galilee" and Scheffler's comments. In 1973 O. Z. Whitehead wrote a biographical article on Chase published in "Baháʼí News". The work identified him specifically as a Captain serving in the Civil War as well as his life as an insurance salesman and his singing voice, refers to Scheffler's essay, and in general to the process by which Chase came to the Baháʼí Faith, and adding an anecdote of Chase meeting John Bosch. In 1974 it was mentioned that John Bosch was Chase's "literary executor" and in general Chase's papers and collected material was willed to Bosch – including calligraphy by a Baháʼí specialist, Mishkin-Qalam, and noted that Mrs. Chase had burned some material before Bosch could arrive. In November 1974 Hand of the Cause Dhikru'llah Khadem called Chase "the Mullá Husayn of the West", (the first believer of the religion founded by the Báb and accepted as a precursor to the religion by Baháʼís.) In 1974 the "Pittsburgh Courier" again notes Chase, this time in a profile of a major Baháʼí conference, noting he him as the first Baháʼí in America. In 1979 Roger White, called a poet laureette of the religion, albeit unofficially, published a volume of work called "Another Song, Another Season: Poems and Portrayals" which included a 7 page creative nonfiction story "Graveyards Are Not My Style; Thornton Chase 1847-1912" centering on that first graveside memorial visit with ʻAbdu'l-Bahá. It was written from the point of view of a Catholic man in love with a Baháʼí and their struggle over unity being of different religions and their resolution at the interaction of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá, Thornton Chase's gravesite, and them.