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George Cheever was born on April 17, 1807 in Hallowell, Maine, United States. He was the son of Nathaniel Cheever, a publisher and bookseller of Hallowell, Maine, and his wife, Charlotte Barrell.
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George Cheever was born on April 17, 1807 in Hallowell, Maine, United States. He was the son of Nathaniel Cheever, a publisher and bookseller of Hallowell, Maine, and his wife, Charlotte Barrell.
George prepared for college at Hallowell Academy, graduated from Bowdoin College with the Bachelor of Arts Degree in 1825 and from Andover Seminary in 1830. He was granted an honorary Doctor of Divinity Degree from New York University in 1844.
Cheever preached for two years at Newburyport and in Boston. In 1833 he was ordained and installed at the Howard Street Congregational Church in Salem, Massachusetts. He was pastor of the Allen Street Presbyterian Church in New York, 1838-1844, editor of the New York Evangelist, 1845, and pastor of the Church of the Puritans, Union Square, New York, 1846-1867, after which he was engaged in literary work in New York and in Englewood, New Jersey, where he died.
Cheever was an uncompromising reformer and controversialist. Early in his Salem pastorate he attacked the predominant religious faith of that town in a Fourth-of-July oration, maintaining “the inadequacy of the Unitarian faith to produce the highest excellence in literature. ’’ This produced a violent newspaper controversy and much local excitement. Soon after this there appeared from his pen “The True History of Deacon Giles’ Distillery” in the Salem Landmark, in which with changed names he told the story of a distillery in Salem whose proprietor was a church deacon who sold Bibles. This produced a violent upheaval. The press was destroyed by a mob and Cheever was assaulted on the street by the foreman of the distillery, he was sued for libel, fined $1, 000, and imprisoned for one month.
His large library was bequeathed to Howard University. He was a brilliant writer and his literary work covered the entire period of his active life. His writings deal with such a wide variety of subjects as literature, biography, travel, theology, religion, and politics. He was a frequent contributor to the Independent, Bibliotheca Sacra, and to newspapers. His Lectures on the Pilgrim’s Progress went through repeated editions and were translated into several foreign languages.
George Barrell Cheever became well known as the temperance reformer and an ardent abolitionist. He published his works consisted of twenty-three bound volumes and fifty pamphlets, reviews, and addresses. His most important books included: The American Commonplace Book of Prose (1828); The American Commonplace Book of Poetry (1829); Studies in Poetry (1830), and others.
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Cheever was an outspoken critic of tire ritualistic tendencies in the Episcopal Church. As a preacher he was a pronounced Evangelical and an orthodox exponent of that variety of Calvinism known as the “New England Theology. ”
Cheever was an advocate of capital punishment, which he defended on biblical grounds. He opposed the abolition of compulsory Bible reading in the public schools and opposed the running of Sunday trains. He supported the full citizenship and education of the African Americans.
Cheever was a member of the Church Anti-Slavery Society.
Cheever was married on November 21, 1845, to Elizabeth Hoppin Wetmore of New York City.
