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Rh issued, and which was for more than a luindred years the introductory text-book of the Latin lan- guage used in New England. His funeral sermon by Cotton Mather, who was one of his pupils, was published, together with Latin poems from his manuscripts, in 1828. — His son, Samuel, b. in New Haven, Conn., 22 Sept., 1G39; d. in Marblehead, Mass., 29 May, 1724, was the first minister of Mar- blehead. He was graduated at Harvard in 1G59, and began to preach in Marblehead in 1668.

CHEEVER, George Barrell, clergyman, b. in Hallowell. Me.. 17 April, 1807; d. in Englewood, N. J., 1 Oct., 1890. He was the son of Nathaniel Cheever, wlio removed to Hallowell and established the " American Advocate," was graduated at Bow- doin in 1825, at Andover seminary in 1830, and was ordained pastor of Howard street Congre- gational church, Boston, in 1832. While at An- dover and Salem he contributed prose and verse to the " North American Review," " Biblical Reposi- tory," and other periodicals. Engaging in the Unitarian controversy, he wrote a " Defence of the Orthodoxy of Cudworth," and, espousing the tem- perance cause, published in a Salem newspaper in 1835 an allegory entitled " Inquire at Deacon Giles's Distillery." The friends of the deacon made a riotous attack on Mr. Cheever, and he was tried for libel and imprisoned thirty days. Re- signing his pastorate, he went to Europe, contrib- uted letters to the " New York Observer." and on his return in 1839 took charge of the Allen street Presbyterian church, New York city. He deliv- ered lectures on the " Pilgrim's Progress," and on " Hierarchical Despotism." the latter being in an- swer to a discourse of Bishop Hughes. In 1843, in three public debates with J. L. O'Sullivan, he ar- gued for capital punishment. He was in Europe in 1844 as corresponding editor of the New York " Evangelist," of which he was principal editor after his return in 1845. From 1846 until he re- tired in 1870 he was pastor of the Church of the Puritans, which was organized for him, in New York, and was distinguished as a preacher for his rigorous and forcible application of orthodox prin- ciples to questions of practical moment, such as the Dred Scott decision, the banishment of the Bible from the public schools, the operation of railroads on Sundays, the war with Mexico, intem- perance, and slavery. On retiring from the pulpit. Dr. Cheever gave his house in New York to the American board of commissioners for foreign mis- sions and the American missionary association, to be held jointly, and fixed his residence at En- glewood, N. J. He contributed much to the " Independent " and the "' Bibliotheca Sacra." Among his publications are "Commonplace Book of Prose " (Cooperstown, 1828) ; "Studies in Poet- ry " (Boston, 1830) ; an edition of the " Select Works of Archbishop Leighton " (1832) ; " Com- monplace Book of Poetry " (Philadelphia, 1839) ; "God's Hand in America" (New York, 1841): '• Lectures on Hierarchical Despotism " ; " Lectures on the ' Pilgrim's Progress ' " (1844) ; " Wander- ings of a Pilgrim in Switzerland " (1845-'6) ; " De- fence of Capital Punishment " (1846) ; wifih J. E. Svveetser, " Christian Melodies, a Selection of Hymns and Tunes " ; " Poets of America " (Hart- ford, 1847); "The Hill of Difficulty" (1847); "Journal of the Pilgrims, Plymouth, New Eng- land, 1620," reprinted from the original volumes, with illustrations (1848) ; " Punishment by Death, its Authority and Expediency " (1849) ; " Wind- ings of the River of the Water of Life " (New York, 1849) ; " The Voice of Nature to her Foster- Child. the Soul of Man " (1852) ; " Powers of the World to Come " (1853) ; " Thoughts for the Af- flicted " ; " The Right of the Bible in our Public Schools " (1854) ; " Lectures on the Life, Genius, and Insanity of Cowper" (1856); "God against Slavery, and the FreedonTand Duty of the Pulpit to Rebuke it " (1857) ; " Guilt of Slavery and Crime of Slaveholding " (1860) ; " Faith, Doubt, and Evi- dence " (1881). — His brother, Henry Theodore, clergyman, b. in Hallowell, Me., 6 Feb., 1814; d. in Worcester, Mass., 13 Feb., 1897, was graduated at Bowdoin in 1834, and then sent letters to a New York paper from Europe. He studied the- ology at Bangor, IMe., where he was graduated in 1840, travelled in the South seas and the Sand- wich islands, was correspondent and associate edi- tor of the New York " Evangelist " in 1843-'4, set- tled as pastor in various places, and from 1859 till 1864 was secretary and agent for the church anti- slavery society. He has published popular books of travel and biography under the following titles : " The Whale and His Captors " (New York, 1849) ; " A Reel in a Bottle for Jack in the Doldrums," an allegory (1851) ; " The Island World of the Pa- cific " (1852) ; " Memoirs of Nathaniel Cheever, M. D.," his father, to which his brother wrote an in- troduction (1853) ; " Life and Religion in the Sand- wich Islands " (1854) ; " Autobiography and Me- morials of Capt. Obadiah Congat" (1855); "The Sea and the Sailor," from the literary remains of Walter Colton (1855) ; " Short Yarns for Long Voyages" (1855); "Life and Writings of the Rev. Walter Colton, U. S. N." (1856) ; " The Pulpit and the Pew-Trials and Triumphs of a Year in the Old Parsonage, from Leaves of a Pastor's Jour- nal " (1858) ; "Way-Marks in the Moral War with Slavery between the Opening of 1859 and the Close of 1861 " (1802) ; " Autobiograhhv and IMemorials of Ichabod Washburn " (Boston, 1878) ; and " Cor- respondencies of Faith and Views of Madame Guyon " (New York, 1886).

CHEL-AB-KU-KIL, or AB-KU-KIL-CHEL, Indian priest of Yucatan, flourished early in the 15th century. Almost every Yucatec legend mentions his name repeatedly, and several proverbs in the Maya language are attributed to him. Many fragments of a history composed by Chel-Ab-Ku-Kil are found in the documents of Yucatan and Central American missions, and nearly all the chroniclers of the conquest of America mention Chel-Ab-Ku-Kil, who left this prophecy: &ldquo;You who look at things to come, what do you think will happen at the end of this age? Let it be known by you that such things will come from north and east, and for our woe, that you may think they are before your eyes. In the ninth age no priest or prophet will reveal to you the scripture, of which you are generally ignorant.&rdquo;

CHENEY, Charles, manufacturer, b. in what is now South Manchester, Conn., in 1804; d. there, 20 June, 1874. He went to Tolland as a clerk when he was about fourteen years old, and before he was of age engaged in mercantile business on his own account in Providence. About 1837 he removed to Ohio and established himself as a farmer at Mount Healthy, near Cincinnati, where he remained eleven years, during which period he became interested in the anti-slavery movement. About the time of his removal to Ohio, Ward Cheney and some of his other brothers had established a small silk factory in South Manchester, Conn. They had many obstacles with which to contend, and the factory was suspended after three or four years, but was revived in 1841, and in 1847 Charles Cheney joined his brothers in the undertaking. He spent a considerable portion of his