Hi Dianne,
There is a Moses Chaney in our line and will check on
that for you.
Which John Chaney are you asking about?
I am from California and have roots back to Ohio,
Maryland and who knows?
Please send more info on the Coat of Arms, thanks.
Diana
--- SunshineNative(a)aol.com wrote:
Hi Ya'll,
Been working on diggin' up folks- and found a
beautiful little trail for
Cheney's from one coast to the other... Does anyone
know if John had any
children while in California? Did he marry someone?
Thanks for your time
Dianne
The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of
Notable Americans: Volume II
C
Cheney, Oren Burbank
CHENEY, John Vance, poet, was born at Groveland,
N.Y., Dec. 29, 1848; son of
Simeon Pease and Christiana (Vance) Cheney, and
grandson of Moses Cheney, an
eloquent Baptist divine. He received an academical
education, studied law,
and was admitted to the Massachusetts bar. He
practised his profession in New
York city until 1876. Ill-health caused him to
remove to California, and in
1887 he was appointed librarian of the San Francisco
free library, where his
management was conducive of the best results. In
1894 he succeeded William F.
Poole as librarian of the Newberry library, Chicago.
While in New York he
contributed poems to the principal magazines, and
was elected a member of the
Authors' club (1883). He also wrote numerous essays
on literary subjects, and
published in book form: The Old Doctor (1881);
Thistle Drift, poems (1888),
and The Golden Guess; Essays on Poetry and the Poets
(1892), and Ninette, a
Redwoods Idyll (1894). He also edited Wood Notes
Wild, by his father, Simeon
Pease Cheney (1892), and published Lyrics (1902).
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