Cheever, Ezekiel
educator, author, was born Jan. 25, 1614, in London, England. He was a colonial educator of Boston, who was master of the Latin school for many years, and was author of Scripture Prophecies Explained, an essay on the millennium; Latin Accidence, for a century a standard introductory Latin text-book in New England. He died Aug. 21, 1708, in Boston, Mass.
CHEEVER, GEORGE BARRELL, clergyman, author, was born April 17, 1807, in Hallowell, Maine. He was a noted congregational clergyman of New York city, and the author of Deacon Giles's Distillery; Studies in Poetry; Wanderings of a Pilgrim in the Shadow of Mont Blanc; Lectures on Pilgrim's Progress; Journal of the Pilgrims at Plymouth; God Against Slavery; Incidents and Memories of the Christian Life; The Guilt of Slavery; The Republic or the Oligarchy, Which?; Faith, Doubt, and Evidence; God's Timepiece for Man's Eternity; Lectures on Cowper; and Windings of the River of the Water of Life. He died Oct. 1, 1890, in Englewood, N. J.