Chesnut Grove (plantation)
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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James Chesnut Jr
James is a common English language surname and given name: *James (name), the typically masculine first name James * James (surname), various people with the last name James James or James City may also refer to: People * King James (other), various kings named James * Saint James (other) * James (musician) * James, brother of Jesus Places Canada * James Bay, a large body of water * James, Ontario United Kingdom * James College, a college of the University of York United States * James, Georgia, an unincorporated community * James, Iowa, an unincorporated community * James City, North Carolina * James City County, Virginia ** James City (Virginia Company) ** James City Shire * James City, Pennsylvania * St. James City, Florida Arts, entertainment, and media * ''James'' (2005 film), a Bollywood film * ''James'' (2008 film), an Irish short film * ''James'' (2022 film), an Indian Kannada-language film * James the Red Engine, a character in ''Thomas t ...
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Jerry Chesnut
Jerry Donald Chesnut (May 7, 1931 – December 15, 2018) was an American country music songwriter. His hits include "Good Year for the Roses" (recorded by Alan Jackson, George Jones and Elvis Costello) and " T-R-O-U-B-L-E" (recorded by Elvis Presley in 1975, and Travis Tritt in 1992.) Born and raised in Harlan County, Kentucky, he moved to Nashville in 1958 to pursue his career. In 1967, Del Reeves recorded Chesnut's "A Dime at a Time" to give the songwriter his first chart hit single. In 1968, Jerry Lee Lewis's hit recording of Chesnut's " Another Place, Another Time" was nominated for a Grammy Award. In 1972, Chesnut was named ''Billboards 'Songwriter of the Year', and in 1992 he became a member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. Jerry Chesnut died in Nashville on December 15, 2018 at the age of 87. Selective list of songs This list includes the song title and artist(s) who have recorded the song. * "A Dime At A Time" – Del Reeves, Steep Canyon Rangers (as "One Dime ...
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Mary Boykin Chesnut
Mary Boykin Chesnut (née Miller) (March 31, 1823 – November 22, 1886) was an American author noted for a book published as her Civil War diary, a "vivid picture of a society in the throes of its life-and-death struggle."Woodward, C. Vann. "Introduction", Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut, ''Mary Chesnut's Civil War'', 1981. She described the war from within her upper-class circles of Southern slaveowner society, but encompassed all classes in her book. She was married to a lawyer who served as a United States senator and Confederate officer. Chesnut worked toward a final form of her book in 1881–1884, based on her extensive diary written during the war years. It was published in 1905, 19 years after her death. New versions were published after her papers were discovered, in 1949 by the novelist Ben Ames Williams, and in 1981 by the historian C. Vann Woodward, whose annotated edition of the diary, '' Mary Chesnut's Civil War'' (1981), won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1982. Lit ...
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Victor King Chesnut
Victor King Chesnut (June 28, 1867 – August 29, 1938) was an American botanist and chemist who pioneered the scientific study of poisonous plants in the United States. Biography Chesnut was born in Nevada City, California on June 28, 1867, the son of John Andrew Chesnut and Henrietta Sarah King. After graduating from Oakland high school, he matriculated at the University of California. He was awarded a B.S. in 1890 and became a chemistry assistant at the same institution for three years. For a brief period, he studied at the University of Chicago, then was accepted as a botany assistant at the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) in 1894. Initially, he was assistant to the chief in the department's office of botanical research. In November 1894, the department decided to undergo an investigation of poisonous plants, placing Chesnut in charge of this program. In 1898, Chesnut was the author of ''Principal Poisonous Plants of the United States''; a government report t ...
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William Calvin Chesnut
William Calvin Chesnut (June 27, 1873 – October 16, 1962) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland. Education and career Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Chesnut received an Artium Baccalaureus degree from Johns Hopkins University in 1892 and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Maryland School of Law in 1894. He was an assistant state's attorney of Baltimore from 1896 to 1899. He was in private practice in Baltimore from 1899 to 1931. He was a lecturer for the University of Maryland School of Law from 1911 to 1931. Federal judicial service Chesnut received a recess appointment from President Herbert Hoover on May 9, 1931, to a seat on the United States District Court for the District of Maryland vacated by Judge Morris Ames Soper. He was nominated to the same position by President Hoover on December 15, 1931. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on January 12, 1932, and received his commission the same d ...
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Chesnutt
Chesnutt is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Charles W. Chesnutt (1858–1932), American author, essayist, political activist and lawyer *Cody Chesnutt (born 1968), American R&B and neo soul musician from Atlanta, Georgia *Mark Chesnutt (born 1963), American country music singer *Vic Chesnutt (1964–2009), American singer-songwriter from Athens, Georgia See also *Chesnut * Anne Chesnutt Middle School, year-round middle school, part of Cumberland County Schools in Fayetteville, North Carolina * CESNET *Chess-Nuts *Chestnut The chestnuts are the deciduous trees and shrubs in the genus ''Castanea'', in the beech family Fagaceae. They are native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. The name also refers to the edible nuts they produce. The unrelat ...