Joseph Lemuel Chester papers

Collection

Identifier: MS 0146

Staff Only

Finding aid note: Stored onsite at the Woodson Research Center.

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of five items: an original copyright document for Chester’s book “Greenwood Cemetery and Other Poems”, a handwritten poem entitled “To Georgie”, an undated leaflet of several printed poems, and two letters of a personal nature from correspondents in Blackheath, South Carolina.

Dates

Creation: 1843 - 1880

Creator

Chester, Joseph Lemuel (Person)

Access Restrictions

This material is open for research.

Conditions Governing Access

Stored onsite at the Woodson Research Center.

Restrictions on Use

Permission to publish material from the Joseph Lemuel Chester Papers, 1843-1880 must be obtained from the Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library.

Biographical Note

Joseph L. Chester was born in Norwich, Connecticut in 1821. After a brief school-teaching experience in Ballston, New York, he removed to New York City where he became interested in politics and then journalism. In 1845 he moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where he spent the rest of his life. He was a poet, writer, City Council member, anti-slavery spokesman and an avid genealogist. He died in 1882.