Son of Moses Cheney & Abigail Morrison.
In 1880 he is listed as a printer.
When he died he is listed as a newspaper editor.
From 1892 - 1914 he was a US consul in Cuba and Haiti.
Elias Remarried: October 11, 1907 in Concord, NH to Clara M. Smith. (both listed as widowers)
The following notice of the death of Mr. Elias Hutchins Cheney (1832-1924), which is taken from the Boston Globe, will be read with interest and regret by many of the “old-time” residents of Putnam County, for Editor Cheney once owned considerable property across the river from Federal Point, and he and his wife spent the winters of 1914 and 1915 at the Point, being life-long friends of the Tenney family.
Elias H. Cheney, 92, senior editor of the Granite State Free Press, died at his home in Lebanon, N.H. Tuesday night following an attack of acute indigestion.
He had been engaged with the Free Press as editor or as senior editor for 63 years.
Mr. Cheney was born Jan. 28, 1832, in Holderness, N.H., and was one of the 11 children of Deacon Moses and Abigail (Morrison) Cheney. He received his education at Holderness High School, the New Hampton Insitute, and Philips Exeter Academy.
He served a short apprenticeship of the Peterboro Transcript, of which he became editor and proprietor in 1853, at the age of 21. In 1855 he was publishing the New Hampshire Phoenix at Concord, a temperance organ of short life. In 1856 and 1857 he was foreman of the job department of the New Hampshire Sentinel, at Keene, and then returned for a time to paper making at the Peterboro mill of his brother, Peter C., later Governor of New Hampshire.
In 1859 he was with Hon Nelson Dingley of tariff fame on the Lewiston, Me. Journal, but responded to an appeal to resume the foremanship of the Sullivan Republican, a new paper at Newport, edited by William H. H. Allen, Esq. Afterward he worked for a while on the Whip and Spur, a Democratic campaign paper printed in the office of the Argus and the Spectator at Newport.
In January, 1891, he was appointed consul at Matanzas, Cuba, from which place he was retired with the change of administration at Washington in August 1894, but had been consul at Curacoa, West Indes since February, 1899. He acquired a speaking command of the Spanish language after his first appointment as consul, at the age of 60.
His first wife, who was Susan Wallace Youngman, of Peterboro, died on Dec. 29, 1904. He is survived by his second wife, who was Clara May Smith of Brewer, Me., widow of his predecessor as consul at Curacao, and by two sons, Fred W. Cheney, of Georgetown, Ill., and Harry Morrison Cheney of Concord, and one daughter, Mrs. George H. Kelley of Lebanon. (Times-Herald Obituary dtd Friday, 19 Sep 1924.
Obituary contributed by Mack Wills.
In 1880 he is listed as a printer.
When he died he is listed as a newspaper editor.
From 1892 - 1914 he was a US consul in Cuba and Haiti.
Elias Remarried: October 11, 1907 in Concord, NH to Clara M. Smith. (both listed as widowers)
The following notice of the death of Mr. Elias Hutchins Cheney (1832-1924), which is taken from the Boston Globe, will be read with interest and regret by many of the “old-time” residents of Putnam County, for Editor Cheney once owned considerable property across the river from Federal Point, and he and his wife spent the winters of 1914 and 1915 at the Point, being life-long friends of the Tenney family.
Elias H. Cheney, 92, senior editor of the Granite State Free Press, died at his home in Lebanon, N.H. Tuesday night following an attack of acute indigestion.
He had been engaged with the Free Press as editor or as senior editor for 63 years.
Mr. Cheney was born Jan. 28, 1832, in Holderness, N.H., and was one of the 11 children of Deacon Moses and Abigail (Morrison) Cheney. He received his education at Holderness High School, the New Hampton Insitute, and Philips Exeter Academy.
He served a short apprenticeship of the Peterboro Transcript, of which he became editor and proprietor in 1853, at the age of 21. In 1855 he was publishing the New Hampshire Phoenix at Concord, a temperance organ of short life. In 1856 and 1857 he was foreman of the job department of the New Hampshire Sentinel, at Keene, and then returned for a time to paper making at the Peterboro mill of his brother, Peter C., later Governor of New Hampshire.
In 1859 he was with Hon Nelson Dingley of tariff fame on the Lewiston, Me. Journal, but responded to an appeal to resume the foremanship of the Sullivan Republican, a new paper at Newport, edited by William H. H. Allen, Esq. Afterward he worked for a while on the Whip and Spur, a Democratic campaign paper printed in the office of the Argus and the Spectator at Newport.
In January, 1891, he was appointed consul at Matanzas, Cuba, from which place he was retired with the change of administration at Washington in August 1894, but had been consul at Curacoa, West Indes since February, 1899. He acquired a speaking command of the Spanish language after his first appointment as consul, at the age of 60.
His first wife, who was Susan Wallace Youngman, of Peterboro, died on Dec. 29, 1904. He is survived by his second wife, who was Clara May Smith of Brewer, Me., widow of his predecessor as consul at Curacao, and by two sons, Fred W. Cheney, of Georgetown, Ill., and Harry Morrison Cheney of Concord, and one daughter, Mrs. George H. Kelley of Lebanon. (Times-Herald Obituary dtd Friday, 19 Sep 1924.
Obituary contributed by Mack Wills.
Son of Moses Cheney & Abigail Morrison.
In 1880 he is listed as a printer.
When he died he is listed as a newspaper editor.
From 1892 - 1914 he was a US consul in Cuba and Haiti.
Elias Remarried: October 11, 1907 in Concord, NH to Clara M. Smith. (both listed as widowers)
The following notice of the death of Mr. Elias Hutchins Cheney (1832-1924), which is taken from the Boston Globe, will be read with interest and regret by many of the “old-time” residents of Putnam County, for Editor Cheney once owned considerable property across the river from Federal Point, and he and his wife spent the winters of 1914 and 1915 at the Point, being life-long friends of the Tenney family.
Elias H. Cheney, 92, senior editor of the Granite State Free Press, died at his home in Lebanon, N.H. Tuesday night following an attack of acute indigestion.
He had been engaged with the Free Press as editor or as senior editor for 63 years.
Mr. Cheney was born Jan. 28, 1832, in Holderness, N.H., and was one of the 11 children of Deacon Moses and Abigail (Morrison) Cheney. He received his education at Holderness High School, the New Hampton Insitute, and Philips Exeter Academy.
He served a short apprenticeship of the Peterboro Transcript, of which he became editor and proprietor in 1853, at the age of 21. In 1855 he was publishing the New Hampshire Phoenix at Concord, a temperance organ of short life. In 1856 and 1857 he was foreman of the job department of the New Hampshire Sentinel, at Keene, and then returned for a time to paper making at the Peterboro mill of his brother, Peter C., later Governor of New Hampshire.
In 1859 he was with Hon Nelson Dingley of tariff fame on the Lewiston, Me. Journal, but responded to an appeal to resume the foremanship of the Sullivan Republican, a new paper at Newport, edited by William H. H. Allen, Esq. Afterward he worked for a while on the Whip and Spur, a Democratic campaign paper printed in the office of the Argus and the Spectator at Newport.
In January, 1891, he was appointed consul at Matanzas, Cuba, from which place he was retired with the change of administration at Washington in August 1894, but had been consul at Curacoa, West Indes since February, 1899. He acquired a speaking command of the Spanish language after his first appointment as consul, at the age of 60.
His first wife, who was Susan Wallace Youngman, of Peterboro, died on Dec. 29, 1904. He is survived by his second wife, who was Clara May Smith of Brewer, Me., widow of his predecessor as consul at Curacao, and by two sons, Fred W. Cheney, of Georgetown, Ill., and Harry Morrison Cheney of Concord, and one daughter, Mrs. George H. Kelley of Lebanon. (Times-Herald Obituary dtd Friday, 19 Sep 1924.
Obituary contributed by Mack Wills.
In 1880 he is listed as a printer.
When he died he is listed as a newspaper editor.
From 1892 - 1914 he was a US consul in Cuba and Haiti.
Elias Remarried: October 11, 1907 in Concord, NH to Clara M. Smith. (both listed as widowers)
The following notice of the death of Mr. Elias Hutchins Cheney (1832-1924), which is taken from the Boston Globe, will be read with interest and regret by many of the “old-time” residents of Putnam County, for Editor Cheney once owned considerable property across the river from Federal Point, and he and his wife spent the winters of 1914 and 1915 at the Point, being life-long friends of the Tenney family.
Elias H. Cheney, 92, senior editor of the Granite State Free Press, died at his home in Lebanon, N.H. Tuesday night following an attack of acute indigestion.
He had been engaged with the Free Press as editor or as senior editor for 63 years.
Mr. Cheney was born Jan. 28, 1832, in Holderness, N.H., and was one of the 11 children of Deacon Moses and Abigail (Morrison) Cheney. He received his education at Holderness High School, the New Hampton Insitute, and Philips Exeter Academy.
He served a short apprenticeship of the Peterboro Transcript, of which he became editor and proprietor in 1853, at the age of 21. In 1855 he was publishing the New Hampshire Phoenix at Concord, a temperance organ of short life. In 1856 and 1857 he was foreman of the job department of the New Hampshire Sentinel, at Keene, and then returned for a time to paper making at the Peterboro mill of his brother, Peter C., later Governor of New Hampshire.
In 1859 he was with Hon Nelson Dingley of tariff fame on the Lewiston, Me. Journal, but responded to an appeal to resume the foremanship of the Sullivan Republican, a new paper at Newport, edited by William H. H. Allen, Esq. Afterward he worked for a while on the Whip and Spur, a Democratic campaign paper printed in the office of the Argus and the Spectator at Newport.
In January, 1891, he was appointed consul at Matanzas, Cuba, from which place he was retired with the change of administration at Washington in August 1894, but had been consul at Curacoa, West Indes since February, 1899. He acquired a speaking command of the Spanish language after his first appointment as consul, at the age of 60.
His first wife, who was Susan Wallace Youngman, of Peterboro, died on Dec. 29, 1904. He is survived by his second wife, who was Clara May Smith of Brewer, Me., widow of his predecessor as consul at Curacao, and by two sons, Fred W. Cheney, of Georgetown, Ill., and Harry Morrison Cheney of Concord, and one daughter, Mrs. George H. Kelley of Lebanon. (Times-Herald Obituary dtd Friday, 19 Sep 1924.
Obituary contributed by Mack Wills.
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