George B. Cheever

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George Barrell Cheever (April 7, 1807 – October 1, 1890) was a well-known and controversial abolitionist minister and writer. Born at Hallowell, Maine; his parents were Nathanial Cheever and Charlotte Barrell Cheever.[1] He was a graduate of Bowdoin College, where he was a classmate of Nathanial Hawthorne and Henry W. Longfellow,[2] and at Andover Theological Seminary. In 1821 he became pastor of the in Salem, Massachusetts. In 1838 he became pastor of the , in New York City, and in 1846 the new . New York City.[3] In 1846 he married Elizabeth Hoppin Wetmore Cheever (1814–1886); they had no children.[1] He died at his home in Englewood, New Jersey, and is buried in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York. He was survived by a brother, Rev. Henry T. Cheever, and a sister, Mrs. Ichabod Washburn, both of Worcester, Mass.

He was a leader of the Christian Abolitionist Movement. His best-known works, which went through multiple editions and are held by hundreds of libraries, are:

  • God against slavery : and the freedom and the duty of the pulpit to rebuke it, as a sin against God. New York: Joseph R. Ladd. 1857.
  • The guilt of slavery and the crime of slaveholding, demonstrated from the Hebrew and Greek scriptures. Boston: John P. Jewett. 1860.

Edgar Allan Poe famously remarked on Cheever: "He is much better known, however, as the editor of The Commonplace Book of American Poetry, a work which has at least the merit of not belying its title, and is exceedingly commonplace".[4][5]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b "Rev Dr George Barrell Cheever". Find a Grave. Archived from the original on April 26, 2021. Retrieved April 20, 2021.
  2. ^ "Dr. George B. Cheever Ill". The Sun (New York). September 20, 1890. p. 6. Archived from the original on 2021-04-26. Retrieved 2021-04-26 – via Chronicling America.
  3. ^ "Rev. George B. Cheever Dead". The Evening World. October 1, 1890. p. 1. Archived from the original on 2021-04-26. Retrieved 2021-04-26 – via Chronicling America.
  4. ^ Poe, Edgar Allan (June 1846). "The Literati of New York City — No. II". Godey's Lady's Book. 32: 266–272.
  5. ^ Zimmerman, Brett (2005). Edgar Allan Poe: Rhetoric and Style ([Online-Ausg.] ed.). Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. pp. 129–130. ISBN 0773528997. Archived from the original on 2021-04-26. Retrieved 2021-04-26.
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