The susceptibility in arbitrary directions, the specific heat, the energy and the magnetization of general Ising-type chains are exactly expressed in terms of the eigenvectors of the transfer matrix corresponding to the Ising-type interaction. These quantities, as a result, can be explicitly obtained for small spin values and generally obtained from the solution of corresponding eigenvalue problem of finite degree. Numerical estimations are easy for arbitrary spin values. This formula includes the spin- S transverse Ising model with vanishing or non-vanishing parallel external field, the Blume-Emery-Griffiths model and the Blume-Capel model, mixed spin and mixed bond periodic systems such as alternating Ising chains or Ising ferrimagnets and also includes Ising models with random structures. Low temperature behaviors of these systems and the crossover to infinite spin systems are also investigated.