issued, and which was for more than a luindred years the introductory text-book of the Latin lan- guage used in New England. His funeral sermon by Cotton Mather, who was one of his pupils, was published, together with Latin poems from his manuscripts, in 1828. — His son, Samuel, b. in New Haven, Conn., 22 Sept., 1G39; d. in Marblehead, Mass., 29 May, 1724, was the first minister of Mar- blehead. He was graduated at Harvard in 1G59, and began to preach in Marblehead in 1668.
CHEEVER, George Barrell, clergyman, b. in
Hallowell. Me.. 17 April, 1807; d. in Englewood,
N. J., 1 Oct., 1890. He was the son of Nathaniel
Cheever, wlio removed to Hallowell and established
the " American Advocate," was graduated at Bow-
doin in 1825, at Andover seminary in 1830, and
was ordained pastor of Howard street Congre-
gational church, Boston, in 1832. While at An-
dover and Salem he contributed prose and verse to
the " North American Review," " Biblical Reposi-
tory," and other periodicals. Engaging in the
Unitarian controversy, he wrote a " Defence of the
Orthodoxy of Cudworth," and, espousing the tem-
perance cause, published in a Salem newspaper in
1835 an allegory entitled " Inquire at Deacon
Giles's Distillery." The friends of the deacon
made a riotous attack on Mr. Cheever, and he was
tried for libel and imprisoned thirty days. Re-
signing his pastorate, he went to Europe, contrib-
uted letters to the " New York Observer." and on
his return in 1839 took charge of the Allen street
Presbyterian church, New York city. He deliv-
ered lectures on the " Pilgrim's Progress," and on
" Hierarchical Despotism." the latter being in an-
swer to a discourse of Bishop Hughes. In 1843, in
three public debates with J. L. O'Sullivan, he ar-
gued for capital punishment. He was in Europe
in 1844 as corresponding editor of the New York
" Evangelist," of which he was principal editor
after his return in 1845. From 1846 until he re-
tired in 1870 he was pastor of the Church of the
Puritans, which was organized for him, in New
York, and was distinguished as a preacher for his
rigorous and forcible application of orthodox prin-
ciples to questions of practical moment, such as
the Dred Scott decision, the banishment of the
Bible from the public schools, the operation of
railroads on Sundays, the war with Mexico, intem-
perance, and slavery. On retiring from the pulpit.
Dr. Cheever gave his house in New York to the
American board of commissioners for foreign mis-
sions and the American missionary association,
to be held jointly, and fixed his residence at En-
glewood, N. J. He contributed much to the
" Independent " and the "' Bibliotheca Sacra."
Among his publications are "Commonplace Book
of Prose " (Cooperstown, 1828) ; "Studies in Poet-
ry " (Boston, 1830) ; an edition of the " Select
Works of Archbishop Leighton " (1832) ; " Com-
monplace Book of Poetry " (Philadelphia, 1839) ;
"God's Hand in America" (New York, 1841):
'• Lectures on Hierarchical Despotism " ; " Lectures
on the ' Pilgrim's Progress ' " (1844) ; " Wander-
ings of a Pilgrim in Switzerland " (1845-'6) ; " De-
fence of Capital Punishment " (1846) ; wifih J. E.
Svveetser, " Christian Melodies, a Selection of
Hymns and Tunes " ; " Poets of America " (Hart-
ford, 1847); "The Hill of Difficulty" (1847);
"Journal of the Pilgrims, Plymouth, New Eng-
land, 1620," reprinted from the original volumes,
with illustrations (1848) ; " Punishment by Death,
its Authority and Expediency " (1849) ; " Wind-
ings of the River of the Water of Life " (New
York, 1849) ; " The Voice of Nature to her Foster-
Child. the Soul of Man " (1852) ; " Powers of the
World to Come " (1853) ; " Thoughts for the Af-
flicted " ; " The Right of the Bible in our Public
Schools " (1854) ; " Lectures on the Life, Genius,
and Insanity of Cowper" (1856); "God against
Slavery, and the FreedonTand Duty of the Pulpit
to Rebuke it " (1857) ; " Guilt of Slavery and Crime
of Slaveholding " (1860) ; " Faith, Doubt, and Evi-
dence " (1881). — His brother, Henry Theodore,
clergyman, b. in Hallowell, Me., 6 Feb., 1814; d.
in Worcester, Mass., 13 Feb., 1897, was graduated
at Bowdoin in 1834, and then sent letters to a
New York paper from Europe. He studied the-
ology at Bangor, IMe., where he was graduated in
1840, travelled in the South seas and the Sand-
wich islands, was correspondent and associate edi-
tor of the New York " Evangelist " in 1843-'4, set-
tled as pastor in various places, and from 1859 till
1864 was secretary and agent for the church anti-
slavery society. He has published popular books
of travel and biography under the following titles :
" The Whale and His Captors " (New York, 1849) ;
" A Reel in a Bottle for Jack in the Doldrums,"
an allegory (1851) ; " The Island World of the Pa-
cific " (1852) ; " Memoirs of Nathaniel Cheever, M.
D.," his father, to which his brother wrote an in-
troduction (1853) ; " Life and Religion in the Sand-
wich Islands " (1854) ; " Autobiography and Me-
morials of Capt. Obadiah Congat" (1855); "The
Sea and the Sailor," from the literary remains of
Walter Colton (1855) ; " Short Yarns for Long
Voyages" (1855); "Life and Writings of the Rev.
Walter Colton, U. S. N." (1856) ; " The Pulpit and
the Pew-Trials and Triumphs of a Year in the
Old Parsonage, from Leaves of a Pastor's Jour-
nal " (1858) ; "Way-Marks in the Moral War with
Slavery between the Opening of 1859 and the Close
of 1861 " (1802) ; " Autobiograhhv and IMemorials
of Ichabod Washburn " (Boston, 1878) ; and " Cor-
respondencies of Faith and Views of Madame
Guyon " (New York, 1886).
CHEL-AB-KU-KIL, or AB-KU-KIL-CHEL,
Indian priest of Yucatan, flourished early in the
15th century. Almost every Yucatec legend
mentions his name repeatedly, and several proverbs in
the Maya language are attributed to him. Many
fragments of a history composed by Chel-Ab-Ku-Kil
are found in the documents of Yucatan and
Central American missions, and nearly all the
chroniclers of the conquest of America mention
Chel-Ab-Ku-Kil, who left this prophecy: “You
who look at things to come, what do you think
will happen at the end of this age? Let it be
known by you that such things will come from
north and east, and for our woe, that you may
think they are before your eyes. In the ninth age
no priest or prophet will reveal to you the scripture,
of which you are generally ignorant.”
CHENEY, Charles, manufacturer, b. in what is now South Manchester, Conn., in 1804; d. there, 20 June, 1874. He went to Tolland as a clerk when he was about fourteen years old, and before
he was of age engaged in mercantile business on his own account in Providence. About 1837 he removed to Ohio and established himself as a farmer at Mount Healthy, near Cincinnati, where he remained eleven years, during which period he became interested in the anti-slavery movement. About the time of his removal to Ohio, Ward
Cheney and some of his other brothers had established a small silk factory in South Manchester, Conn. They had many obstacles with which to contend, and the factory was suspended after three or four years, but was revived in 1841, and in 1847 Charles Cheney joined his brothers in the undertaking. He spent a considerable portion of his
