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 CHEESHAHTEAUMUCK CHEEVER 353 is not an easily digestible article of food, but when well made is not unwholesome, and may sometimes suitably form quite a large share of the diet of laborers. For further practi- cal and theoretical information, see Willard's "Practical Dairy Husbandry" (New York, 1872), and Watts's "Dictionary of Chemis- try." According to the census, the whole amount of cheese produced in the United States in 1870 was 162,927,382 Ibs., of which 109,435,229 Ibs. was made in factories and 53,927,382 Ibs. on farms. The principal states producing cheese were New York, 100,776,014 Ibs.; Ohio, 24,153,856; Vermont, 7,814,879; Illinois, 5,734,004; Massachusetts, 4,131,309; and California, 3,395,074. There were 1,313 factories devoted to the manufacture of cheese, employing 4,607 hands. The capital invested amounted to $3,690,075; wages paid during the year, $706,566; gallons of milk used, 116,- 466,405 ; value of all materials used, -$14,089,- 284; of cheese produced, $16,710,569; other products, $61,096. The number of cows sup- plying One factory ranges from 100 to more than 1,000, the average being about 400. In 1871 a factory in Chautauqua co., N. Y., had registered as the whole number of cows, 1,734. During the year ending June 30, 1873, 66,204,- 024 Ibs. of cheese, valued at $7,752,918, were exported from the United States, of which 52,- 056,926 Ibs. went to England, and 8,428,396 to Germany. CHEESHAHTEAUMIJCK, Caleb, an Indian, gradu- ate of Harvard college (1665), born in 1646, died at Charlestown, Mass., in 1666. He was the only Indian who ever graduated from that college. CHEEVER, Ezeklel, an American teacher, born in London, Jan. 25, 1615, died in Boston, Aug. 21, 1708. He was the son of a linen draper, and the pure Latinity of some essays and verses written by him in 1631, and which are still ex- tant among his manuscripts, shows that he had enjoyed superior opportunities of classical train- ing. He came to America in 1637, landing at Boston, and in the following year accompanied Davenport and Eaton to Quinnipiac, and as- sisted in founding the colony of New Haven. His name appears on the plantation covenant in June, 1639. He was chosen one of the dea- cons of the church soon after its organiza- tion, occasionally officiating as a preacher. He taught a public school there from the founda- tion of the colony in 1638 till 1650, and repre- sented the town in the general assembly in 1646. He was master of the grammar school in Ipswich, Mass., in 1650-'51, when he took charge of the free school in Charlestown, where he taught nine years. In 1670 he was called to Boston to take charge of the free school, now known as the Latin school. In this invi- tation the governor, magistrates, clergymen, and selectmen of Boston united. He remained at the head of this school for 38 years, and died at the age of 93, " retaining," says Cotton Ma- ther, who preached his funeral sermon, "his abilities in an unusual degree to the very last, his intellectual force as little abated as his nat- ural." While teaching at New Haven Mr. Cheever prepared the " Accidence, a short In- troduction to the Latin Tongue," which in 1785 had run through 20 editions, and was for more than a century the hand-book of the Latin scholars of New England. He was also the author of a little treatise entitled " Scripture Prophecies Explained, in three short Essays." CHEEVEB. I. George Ban-oil, D. I >., an Amer- ican clergyman and author, born at Hallowell, Me., April 17, 1807. He graduated at Bowdoin college in 1825, at the Andover theological seminary in 1830, and was ordained pastor of the Howard street Congregational church, Sa- lem, Mass., in 1832. While at Andover and Salem he contributed in prose and verse, on literary and theological topics, to the "North American Review," "Biblical Repository," and other periodicals. He engaged in the Uni- tarian controversy, in connection with which he wrote a defence of the orthodoxy of Cud- worth. Espousing the temperance cause, he published in a Salem newspaper, in 1835, a dream entitled " Deacon Giles's Distillery," in which the liquors were graphically character- ized as containing demons in an inferno. The article was widely circulated with illustrations as a temperance tract. Deacon Giles was deemed a veritable person, and the publication resulted in a riotous attack upon Mr. Cheever in the street, his trial and conviction for libel, and his imprisonment for 30 days in the Salem jail. He resigned his pastorate the next sum- mer, and passed the following 2 years in Eu- rope and the Levant, contributing letters to the "New York Observer." On his return in 1838 he became pastor of the Allen street Presbyterian church, New York, and soon after delivered lectures on the "Pilgrim's Pro- gress," and on " Hierarchical Despotism." He went again to Europe in 1844, as correspond- ing editor of the "New York Evangelist," of which journal he was principal editor for a year after his return, in 1845. In 1846 he was installed over the new Congregational church of the Puritans in New York. Upon the estab- lishment of the " New York Independent " in 1848, Dr. Cheever became a weekly contribu- tor to it of religious, literary, critical, and po- litical articles. He also contributed scholarly papers to the "Bibliotheca Sacra." Among his works are commonplace books of prose and poetry (1828 and 1829) ; " Studies in Poetry " (1830) ; an edition of the " Select Works of Archbishop Leighton" (1832); "Lectures on the Pilgrim's Progress " (1844) ; " Wanderings of a Pilgrim" (1845 and 1846); "Journal of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, New England, in 1620, reprinted from the original volume" (1848) ; " Windings of the River of the Water of Life " (1849) ; " Voices of Nature " (1852) ; "Powers of the World to Come" (1853); "Lectures on the Life, Genius, and Sanctity of Cowper " (1856) ; " God against Slavery "