Background
Cheever, David was born on June 25, 1876 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of David Williams and Anne Caroline (Nichols) Cheever.
Cheever, David was born on June 25, 1876 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of David Williams and Anne Caroline (Nichols) Cheever.
Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1897. Doctor of Medicine 1901.
Began practice at Boston, 1901. Assistant surgeon, Boston City Hospital, 1905-1912. Surgeon Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, 1913-1939, emeritus, since 1939.
Assistant and demonstrator in anatomy, Harvard Medical School, 1903-1913, assistant professor surgical anatomy, 1913-1922, associate professor surgery, 1922-1939, emeritus, since 1939.
Lieutenant colonel BEF, chief surgeon Base Hospital 22, in charge Harvard Surgical Unit, 1915-1916. Recalled to duty as acting surgeon in chief of Peter Bent Bingham Hospital, 1942.
Overseer Harvard University, since 1939. President Boston Medical Library, since 1941.
Bevan lecturer Chicago Surgical Society, 1939.
Balfour lecturer U. Toronto, Canada, 1941.
Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences, Societe Internationale de Chirurgie. Member American Surgical Association (president 1940), Society Clinical Surgery, American Medical Association, New England Surgical Society (president), Inter-Urban Surgical Society, Massachusetts Medical Society, Massachusetts History Society, Sigma Xi, Alpha Omega Alpha.
Married Jane Welles Sargent, June 8, 1907. Children: David, Francis Sargent, Charles Ezekiel, Daniel Sargent, Jane Hunnewell.