Joseph Lemuel Chester
1821–82
American-born genealogist. Employed as a clerk, journalist, and lecturer in the United States. Appointed aide-de-camp, with military rank of colonel, to the governor of Pennsylvania, 1855. Arrived in England in 1858. Having obtained access to Doctors’ Commons as a researcher in 1862, he collected material illustrating the ancestry of American families. Worked on a genealogy of CD’s family.
Sources
Freeman 1978
ODNB.
Bibliography
Freeman, Richard Broke. 1978. Charles Darwin: a companion. Folkestone, Kent: William Dawson & Sons. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, Shoe String Press.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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