George Barrell Cheever (April 7, 1807 – October 1, 1890) was a well-known and controversial abolitionist minister and writer.
Born in Hallowell, Maine, he was an 1825 graduate of Bowdoin College, where he was a classmate of Nathanial Hawthorne and Henry W. Longfellow,[1] and Andover Theological Seminary.
His best-known works, which went through multiple editions and are held by hundreds of libraries, are: He was also a leader in the American Temperance Society.
In 1833, he published: 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".
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