George B. Cheever dating history

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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 at Andover Theological Seminary. In 1821 he became pastor of the Howard Street Congregational Church in Salem, Massachusetts. In 1838 he became pastor of the Allen Street Presbyterian Church, in New York City, and in 1846 the new Congregational Church of the Puritans. 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.