=Cheney, John Vance.= _N. Y._, 1848- ----. Son of S. P. Cheney, _infra_. A poet and essayist, for some years at the head of the public library in San Francisco, and now (1897) librarian of the Newberry Library in Chicago. His work in verse includes Thistle Drift; Wood Blooms; Queen Helen, and Other Poems. In prose, The Old Doctor, a Romance of Queer Village; The Golden Guess, a series of critical essays; That Dome in Air, a similar collection of critical studies. _Ap. Cop. Le. Mg. Sto. Wy._ =Cheney, Simeon Pease.= _N. H._, 1818-1890. A once noted musical educator of Vermont. The American Singing Book; Wood Notes Wild, notations of Bird Music. _Le._ =Cheney, Theseus Apoleon.= _N. Y._, 1830-1878. A writer who devoted his attention to the history of the western portion of his native State. Report on the Ancient Monuments of Western New York; Historical Sketch of the Chemung Valley; Historical Sketch of 18 Counties of Central and Southern New York; Laron; Relations of Government to Science; Antiquarian Researches. =Chenoweth, Mrs. Caroline [Van Dusen].= _Ind._, 1846- ----. A teacher of literature in Boston and New York. Stories of the Saints. _Hou._ =Chesebro= [cheez´brō], =Caroline.= _N. Y._, 1825-1873. A writer of stories and sketches who was during the latter part of her life a teacher in the Packer Institute of Brooklyn. Her writing displays much individuality, and the novel, The Foe in the Household, her finest work, is a careful study of some unfamiliar phases of Pennsylvania life. Her other works include The Beautiful Gate and Other Sketches; Peter Carradine; The Children of Light; Susan the Fisherman’s Daughter; The Little Cross Bearers; Dream-Land by Daylight; Philly and Kit; Victoria; Amy Carr; The Glen Cabin. =Chester, Albert Huntington.= _N. Y._, 1843- ----. A professor of chemistry and metallurgy at Rutgers College. Dictionary of the Names of Minerals; Catalogue of Minerals with their Chemical Composition and Synonyms. _Wil._ =Chester, Frederick Dixon Walthall.= _W. I._, 1861- ----. A geologist of Delaware who has written many monographs upon local state geology. =Chester, Joseph Lemuel.= _Ct._, 1821-1882. A Philadelphia journalist who went to England in 1858, living in London, and devoting himself to antiquarian research till he became one of the most famous genealogists of his day. His own writings include Greenwood Cemetery and Other Poems; Treatise on the Laws of Repulsion; Educational Laws of Virginia: the personal narrative of Margaret Douglass, imprisoned for the crime of teaching free coloured children to read; John Rogers, the Compiler of the English Bible; Preliminary Investigation of the Alleged Ancestry of George Washington. His most important antiquarian work is an edition of the Marriage, Baptismal, and Burial Registers of Westminster Abbey, with notes, on which he spent 17 years’ labour. He edited also the parish registers of six London city churches. _See Dictionary of National Biography, vol. x._