Cheever, Daniel A.

Born: 1827-07-26 Providence, Rhode Island

Died: 1890-09-01 Illinois

Flourished: 1854 to 1863 Pekin, Illinois

Daniel A. Cheever, homeopathic physician, obtained an early education in his native Rhode Island and subsequently worked in the mercantile field for seven years in Cincinnati. He studied homeopathic medicine in Cleveland and New York and began a medical practice in Pekin in 1854. Politically, Cheever was first an anti-slavery Whig and later a Republican. On the advent of the Civil War he supported union and in 1862 was an organizer of the Union League of America in Pekin. Cheever registered for the draft in the Eighth Illinois Congressional District in 1863, but there is no further evidence that he served in the Civil War. In religion he was a Baptist. Cheever married Sarah R. Walker in 1852 and was survived by four children from this marriage.

U.S. Census Office, Seventh Census of the United States (1850), Ward 7, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, OH, 245; Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, Tazewell County, 4 November 1852, Illinois State Archives, Springfield, IL; U.S. Census Office, Eighth Census of the United States (1860), Pekin, Tazewell County, IL, 30; Newton Bateman and Paul Selby, eds., Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois and History of Tazewell County, ed. by Ben C. Allensworth (Chicago: Munsell, 1905), 2:538; U.S., Civil War Draft Registrations Records, 1863-1865 (Lehi, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, 2010); The Champaign Daily Gazette (IL), 5 September 1890, 1:3; Gravestone, Mount Hope Cemetery and Mausoleum, Urbana, IL.