Talk:Langdon Cheves
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 |
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography. For more information, visit the project page. | ||
| Start | This article has been rated as Start-Class on the project's quality scale. [FAQ] | ||
 |
This article is supported by the Politics and government work group. | ||
 |
Langdon Cheves is part of WikiProject U.S. Congress, an attempt to build a comprehensive guide to the United States Congress. |
| ??? | This article has not yet received a rating on the quality scale. The options are: "FA", "A", "GA", "B", "Start", "Stub", "List", "Disambiguation", "Template", or "Category." |
| ??? | This article has not yet received a rating on the importance scale. The options are: "Top", "High", "Mid", and "Low." |
| ??? | This article has not yet been assigned a subject. The options are: "Person", "People", "Place", "Thing", and "Event." |
 |
This article is within the scope of WikiProject South Carolina, an effort to create, expand, organize, and improve South Carolina-related articles to a feature-quality standard. |
| Start | This article has been rated as Start-Class on the quality scale. |
| Mid | This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the importance scale. |
While most of your information on Cheves is correct, or at least subject to interpretation, on one point, the pronunciation of his last name, you miss entirely. Having spent a good portion of three or four years researching the Cheves family as first a master's thesis, then a doctoral dissertation, and having met some of the Cheves family descendants, I would suggest you revise the listed pronunciation to CHIV-vis, as listed in Correct Mispronunciations of Some South Carolina Names by Claude and Irene Neuffer, c. 1983, University of South Carolina Press.
Carmel E. Chapline, M.A. The Citadel, 1992
[edit] Two errors
The Encyclopedia entry on Langdon Cheves has 2 errors. First, Cheves is pronounced Chivis, with accent on first syllable. Langdon Cheves was my great-great-great grandfather, and I am named for him, as well as several others before and after me. There are also many still around named Cheves. The second error is his wife. She was Mary Elizabeth Dulles, of the family for whom Dulles airport was later named. Your encyclopedia says Dallas. The following site shows a portrait of her with her full name: http://www.gibbesmuseum.org/recent1.html (this is the Gibbes Art Gallery--her portrait was donated recently.) - Langdon O. 10/3/2004
