Born: April 17, 1807, Hallowell, Maine.
Died: October 1, 1890, Englewood, New Jersey.
Buried: Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York.
Cheever graduated from Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, in 1825.
He served as a Congregational pastor at Salem, Massachusetts (1833); New York (1839); and at the Church of the Puritans, New York (1846–67).