Chesebro, Caroline
educator, author, was born about 1820 in Canandaigua, N. Y. She was a writer of stories and sketches who was during the matter part of her life a teacher in the Packer institute of Brooklyn. Her writing displays much individuality, and the novel, The Foe in the Household, her finest work, is a careful study of some unfamiliar phases of Pennsylvania life. Her other works include The Beautiful Gate and Other Sketches; Peter Carradine; The Children of Light; Susan, the Fisherman's Daughter; The Little Cross Bearers; Dream- Land by Daylight; Philly and Kit; Victoria; Amy Carr; and The Glen Cabin. She died Feb. 16, 1873. in Piermont, N. Y.
CHESEBROUGH, AMOS SHEFFIELD, D. D., clergyman, author, was born Aug. 22, 1813, in Stonington, Conn. In 1835 he graduated from Yale university; and from Yale Theological seminary in 1840.
He has been pastor of congregational churches in Chester, Glastonbury and Durham, Conn.; and previously was principal of Hadley and Westfield academies, Massachusetts. He is a member of the corporation of Yale university, and author of several works on Church Work and Christian Nurture.
CHESEBROUGH, ELLIS SYLVESTER, civil engineer, was worn July 6, 1813, in Baltimore, Md. In 1855 he became engineer for the Chicago board of sewerage commissioners, and in that capacity planned the sewerage system of the city.
In 1879 he resigned the officer of commissioner of public works. He achieved a high reputation as an authority on the water supply and sewage of cities, and in that capacity was consulted by the officials of New York, Boston, Cambridge, Toronto, Detroit, Memphis, Milwaukee, and other cities. In 1877-78 he was president of the American society of civil engineers. He died Aug. 19, 1886, in Chicago, Ill. CHESEBROUGH, ROBERT AUGUS- TUS, manufacturer, inventor, was born Jan. 9, 1837, in England. As a result of continual experiments in distilling and filtering petroleum, he discovered and patented, in 1870, the substance now known as vaseline. In 1881 he erected the huge office building, which bears his name, in New York city. He introduced heating and ventilating appliances of his own invention into this structure; and these have since attracted wide attention among architects and owners. The Real Estate exchange originated with him.