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CHEEVER.

the naval service in 1841, being stationed in Phila- delphia, and afterwards at Annapolis, Md. In 1859 he was chosen professor of mathematics in Washington university, St. Louis, Mo., of which institution he became chancellor in 1862. This office he resigned in 1869 on account of failing health. He twice declined the chair at Yale col- lege made vacant by the death of Professor Olmsted. He was an original member of the National academy of sciences. He is the author of: Binomial Theorems and Logarithms for the Use of Midshipmen at the Naval School (1843); Treatise on Plane and Spherical Trigonometry (1850; 9th ed., 1875); A Manual of Spherical and Practical Astronomy (3 vols., 1863); Navi- gation and Nautical Astronomy {2d ed., 1865); New Method of Correcting Lunar Distances (1868) and ^4 Treatise on Elementary Geometry (1870, 2d ed.. 1877). He died in St. Paul, Minn., Dec. 13, 1870.

CHEATHAfl, Benjamin Franklin, soldier, was born in Nashville, Tenn., Oct. 20. 1820. After attending the public schools of Nashville he entered into business in Philadelpliia, Pa., where he remained a j'ear. He joined the U.S. army at the outbreak of the Mexican war, was made captain, and fought with distinction attlie battles of Monterey and Cerro Gordo. After the expiration of his term of enlistment he returned to Nashville and raised the 3d Tennessee regi- ment, of which he was commissioned colonel. He took active part in the closing battles of the war, and was honorably discliarged in Julj*, 1848. In 1861 he organized the supply department for the western Confederate army, and in May was commissioned brigadier-general. On Nov. 7, 1861, he fought at the battle of Belmont as com- mander of three regiments. He was promoted major-general in 1862, and on December 31 com- manded a division of Bragg's army at Murfrees- boro. He was offered by President Grant an official position, which he declined. He served for several years as superintendent of the Tennessee prison, and in 1885 was appointed postmaster of Nashville. He died in Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 4, 1886.

CHECKLEY, John, clergyman, was born in Boston, Mass., in 1680. In 1723 he wrote and published a theological treatise which caused bitter feeling among New England people. He was sued for libel, and was sentenced to pay a fine of £50. In 1727 he was refused lioly orders by the Bishop of London, but received them later from the Bishop of Exeter. In 1739 he estab- lislied himself in Providence, R. I., where he passed the remainder of his life. He is the author of: Choice Dialogues between a Godly Minister and an Honest Country-Man, concerning Election and Predestination (1715), and ^4 Mod-

est Proof of the Order and Government Settled by Christ and his Apostles in the Church (1723), both of which caused much comment. He died in Providence. R.I.. in 1753.

CHEETHAM, James, author, was born in Manchester, England, in 1772. He came to America in 1798 and entered journalism in New York city. He edited The American Citizen for some years, and wrote: A Narrative of the Suppression by Colonel Burr of the History of the Administration of John Adams, u-ritte)i by John Wood (1802); .4 View of the Political Con- duct of Aaron Burr, Esq., Vice-President of the United States (1802); Antidote to John IT'ood's Poiso7i (1802); Nine Letters on Aaron Burr's Political Defection (1803); Reply to Aris- tides (1804); Peace or War? or. Thoughts on our affairs loith England (1807), and Life of TJiomas Paine (1809). He died in New York citj^ Sei^t. 10. 1810.

CHEEVER, David Williams, educator, was born in Portsmouth. N. H.. Nov. 30, 1831; son of Charles A., and Adeline (Haven) Cheever. He was graduated at Harvard college in 1852 and from the medical school in 1858. In 1866 he was made assistant professor of anatomy in Harvard, and in 1868 was advanced to the adjunct professorship of clinical surgery. He was given the full chair in 1875 and held it until 1882. From 1882 to 1893 he was professor of surgery, and in the latter year be- came professor emeritus. In 1894 Harvard con- ferred upon him the degree of LL.D. His pub- lished writings include: The Value and the Fal- lacy of Statistics in the Obsei^ation of Disease (1861), the Boylston prize essay for 1860; Two Cases of CEsopltagotomy for the Removal of Foreign Bodies (1861); Narcotics (1862); Lec- tures on Hernia (1866); Surgical Cases (1869); Tlie Future of Surgery ivithout Limit (1889); 7s- the Study of Medicine a Liberal Education? (1891), and Lectures on Surgery (1894). He edited with J. N. Borland, the first five volumes of tl)e medical and surgical rejjort of the Boston cit}' hospital.

CHEEVER, Ezekiel, etlucator, was born in London, England, Jan. 25, 1614; son of William Cheever, skinner. He was preferred to theL^ni- versitj- of Cambridge, April 27, 1633. He arrived in Boston, Mass., in June, 1637, and the follow- ing year went with Governor Eaton to his new plantation at New Haven, Conn. In 1638 he be- gan to teach school. In 1646 he was elected a deputy from New Haven to the general court. He removed to Ipswich, Mass.. in December. 1650. where lie took charge of the grammar school. There he remained until 1661. when he went to Charlestown, Mass., teaching there for nine years. He removed to Boston Jan. 6. 1670. and for thirty-eight years taught the school which