Chesnut Hill, Maine
Chesnut is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Eleanor Chesnut (1868–1905), American Christian missionary * James Chesnut Jr. (1815–1885), planter, lawyer, United States Senator, and general * Jerry Chesnut (1931–2018), American songwriter * Mary Boykin Chesnut (1823–1886), South Carolina author * Victor King Chesnut (1867–1938), American botanist and chemist * William Calvin Chesnut (1873–1962), American judge See also * Chesnutt *Chestnut (surname) Chestnut is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Ashlei Sharpe Chestnut, American actress * Ben Chestnut, American billionaire tech executive * Charles S. Chestnut IV (born 1962), American politician * Cynthia M. Chestnut (born ...

Eleanor Chesnut
Eleanor Chesnut (January 8, 1868 — October 29, 1905), sometimes written as Eleanor Chestnut, was an American Christian medical missionary and translator who worked in China from 1894 until her murder in 1905. Early life Eleanor "Nell" E. Chesnut was born in Waterloo, Iowa.James Stuart Dickson"Where Our Graduates Go"''The Assembly Herald'' (April 1906): 204-205. She was a twin, and her mother died soon after her birth; she was raised by neighbors named Merwin, and later by relatives in Hatton, Missouri. She attended Park College, a Presbyterian school in Missouri. She graduated from the college in 1888, and attended Chicago Hospital for Women and Children, Women's Medical College, the Illinois Training School for Nurses, and Moody Bible Institute, in her preparation for becoming a medical missionary.Robert Elliott Speer ''Servants of the King''(Board of Foreign Missions 1909): 91-113. Mission work in China Eleanor Chesnut worked briefly as a physician at the women's reformator ...
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