Jesse Chickering

Jesse Chickering (born Dover, New Hampshire, 31 August 1797; died West Roxbury, Massachusetts, 29 May 1855) was a political economist. He was graduated at Harvard in 1818, studied theology, and became a Unitarian minister. He afterward pursued a medical course, receiving his diploma in 1833, and practised medicine for about ten years in Boston and West Roxbury.

Works

 * Statistical View of the Population of Massachusetts from 1765 to 1840 (Boston, 1846)
 * Emigration into the United States (1848)
 * Reports on the Census of Boston (1851)
 * Letter addressed to the President of the United States on Slavery, considered in Relation to the Principles of Constitutional Government in Great Britain and in the United States (1855)