Cheever, GEORGE BARRELL

Cheever, GEORGE BARRELL, American clergyman, born in Maine in 1807, was educated at Bowdoin College and Andover Theological Seminary, and from 1832 to 1870 was pastor of Congregational and Presbyterian churches in Salem (Massachusetts) and New York. He delivered numerous lectures on religious, literary, and social questions, and published a number of works, the most popular of which is his Lectures on the Pilgrim's Progress (1844), which, with his Wanderings of a Pilgrim in the Shadow of Mont Blanc (1845-46), has had a wide circulation in England as well as in America. In his prime Dr Cheever was an active and uncompromising opponent of intemperance and slavery. He died October 1890.