found: African American National Biography, accessed January 17, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Chester, Thomas Morris; lawyer, journalist, educator; born 11 May 1834 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States. He graduated from Thetford Academy in Vermont (1854-1856) and later studied law at Middle Temple, London (1867-1870). He published and edited the Star of Liberia, Monrovia (1859-1861) and was a war correspondent for the Philadelphia Press (1864). He was commissioned by Garnet League, the Harrisburg chapter of the Pennsylvania Equal Rights League (1866) and was admitted to the Louisiana Bar Association in 1873. He was commissioned as a brigadier general in Louisiana state militia in 1873, and was appointed U.S. commissioner for New Orleans (1878-1882) and assistant to the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Texas (1882). He died 30 September 1892 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States)
