Chickering, Jonas, an American philanthropist, born in New Ipswich, N.H., April 5, 1798.  He became distinguished as a pianoforte maker, having begun that business for himself in1823.  He acquired great wealth, which he used freely, but not ostentatiously, in various charities.  Died Dec. 8, 1853.

Chickering, Thomas E., a son of Jonas Chickering, was born at Boston, Mass., Oct. 22, 1824.  He succeeded his father as the head of a large pianomaking business, and was colonel  of the Forty-first Massachusetts Infantry in the civil war, serving chiefly in Louisiana.  Died at Boston Feb. 14, 1871.

From Johnson's New Universal Cyclopædia, 1877