Chickering, Jesse
physician, author, was born Aug. 31, 1797, in Dover, N. H. He was a Boston physician who was a unitarian minister in his earlier career, and later became a noted writer on political economy. He was the author of Statistical View of the Population of Massachusetts, 1765-1840; Emigration into the United States; Reports on the Census of Boston; and Letter to the President on Slavery in Relation to Constitutional Government in Great Britain and the United States. He died May 29, 1855, in West Roxbury, Mass.