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George Barrell Cheever (April 7, 1807 – October 1, 1890) was a well-known and controversial abolitionist minister and writer. Born at Hallowell, Maine; his parents were Nathanial Cheever and Charlotte Barrell Cheever. He was a graduate of Bowdoin College, where he was a classmate of Nathanial Hawthorne and Henry W. Longfellow, and Andover Theological Seminary. In 1821 he became pastor of the in Salem, Massachusetts. In 1838 he became pastor of the , in New York City, and in 1846 the new . New York City. In 1846 he married Elizabeth Hoppin Wetmore Cheever (1814–1886); they had no children. He died at his home in Englewood, New Jersey, and is buried in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York. He was survived by a brother, Rev. Henry T. Cheever, and a sister, Mrs. Ichabod Washburn, both of W

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  • George Barrell Cheever (April 7, 1807 – October 1, 1890) was a well-known and controversial abolitionist minister and writer. Born at Hallowell, Maine; his parents were Nathanial Cheever and Charlotte Barrell Cheever. He was a graduate of Bowdoin College, where he was a classmate of Nathanial Hawthorne and Henry W. Longfellow, and Andover Theological Seminary. In 1821 he became pastor of the in Salem, Massachusetts. In 1838 he became pastor of the , in New York City, and in 1846 the new . New York City. In 1846 he married Elizabeth Hoppin Wetmore Cheever (1814–1886); they had no children. He died at his home in Englewood, New Jersey, and is buried in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York. He was survived by a brother, Rev. Henry T. Cheever, and a sister, Mrs. Ichabod Washburn, both of Worcester, Mass. He was a leader of the Christian Abolitionist Movement. His best-known works, which went through multiple editions and are held by hundreds of libraries, are: * God against slavery : and the freedom and the duty of the pulpit to rebuke it, as a sin against God. New York: . 1857. * The guilt of slavery and the crime of slaveholding, demonstrated from the Hebrew and Greek scriptures. Boston: John P. Jewett. 1860. Edgar Allan Poe famously remarked on Cheever: "He is much better known, however, as the editor of The Commonplace Book of American Poetry, a work which has at least the merit of not belying its title, and is exceedingly commonplace". (en)
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  • George Barrell Cheever (April 7, 1807 – October 1, 1890) was a well-known and controversial abolitionist minister and writer. Born at Hallowell, Maine; his parents were Nathanial Cheever and Charlotte Barrell Cheever. He was a graduate of Bowdoin College, where he was a classmate of Nathanial Hawthorne and Henry W. Longfellow, and Andover Theological Seminary. In 1821 he became pastor of the in Salem, Massachusetts. In 1838 he became pastor of the , in New York City, and in 1846 the new . New York City. In 1846 he married Elizabeth Hoppin Wetmore Cheever (1814–1886); they had no children. He died at his home in Englewood, New Jersey, and is buried in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York. He was survived by a brother, Rev. Henry T. Cheever, and a sister, Mrs. Ichabod Washburn, both of W (en)
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