Manufacturer (Rubber)
Centurion, 1863–1901
Born 25 April 1824 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Died 9 July 1901 in New York (Queens), New York
Buried Trinity Cemetery
, Hewlett, New York
Proposed by Not recorded
Elected 4 April 1863 at age thirty-eight
Century Memorial
John H. Cheever had been a member of The Century for nearly forty years. He was a business man of notable foresight and energy, and was intimately connected with the development and organization of the rubber interest, being President of the New York Belting and Packing Company and the Mechanical Rubber Company, and director in others. He was prominent in the establishment of Far Rockaway as a place of summer residence, and lived for many years at Wave Crest, where, at different times, he gathered about him a considerable colony, largely made up of fellow-Centurions.
Edward Cary
1902 Century Association Yearbook
