Chickering, Jonas
manufacturer, inventor, was born April 5, 1797, in New Ipswich, N. H. He manufactured Chickering pianos; and invented various improvements. He died Dec. 8, 1853, in Boston, Mass.
CHICKERING, THOMAS EDWARD, soldier, manufacturer, was born Oct. 22, 1824, in Boston, Mass. The Chickerings developed a piano of brilliant quality, which vied with the Steinway piano for the favor of musicians and the public, and has been practically the only American rival of the Steinway among those who are content with nothing less than first-class instruments. The principal salesroom of the firm was in New York city. In 1862 he left Boston in command of the forty-first Massachusetts volunteers, and at the close of the war was brevetted brigadier-general. He died Feb. 14, 1871, in Boston, Mass.