Contributed by Winnie Yandell
His parents were Moses Cheney and Abigail(Morrison) Cheney. They were pious parents of Free Will Baptist faith. Oren B. Cheney was raised of New England stock, in which the religious element had been strongly developed. Moses Cheney was several times a member of the state legislature. He, with his cousin, went into the paper-mill business, and formed "Cheney and Mores"-the name by which the firm was best known--- and it was one of the first built in New Hampshire. Paper was sold in Portland, Boston and New York, as well as in towns surrounding it.
Dr. Cheney first attended Parsonfield Seminary and New Hampton Institution, and graduated from Dartmouth College in 1839. He was converted in the spring of 1836 and, walking from Dartmouth to his native place, he was baptized by Rev. Simeon Dana, and united with the Ashland church.
After graduation he became principal of the Farmington ME Acadamy in the autumn of 1839. He became principal of the Strafford Academy in 1841. Then he taught the Greenland, N.H., Academy near Portsmouth and was licensed by the Portsmouth church. He was ordained in the Effingham Hill, N.H. church, in the autumn of 1844, by Rev. John Buzzell, Rev. Benj. S. Manson, and others. He held anti-slavery sentiments, and this pastorate was laid down because of opposition to his views.
He married Miss Caroline A. Rundlett, of Stratham, N.H. Jan 30, 1840. Their son, Horace died after graduating from college and taking a credible position in the practice of law.
Dr. Cheney was married on Aug. 1847, to Nancy S. Perkins, daughter of Rev. Thomas Perkins, and they had two daughters.
In 1851-52, he was sent to the Legislature by the Whigs and Free-soilers, and voted for the orginal Maine Temperance Law. In 1852, he went to Augusta for five years as pastor of the church. On Sept. 22, 1854, he received a letter from Rev. J.A. Lowell, principal of Parsonfield Seminary,(a FWBapt school) announcing that the Seminary building had been burned the day before.
From that day Dr. Cheney consecrated himself to build for the Free Baptists an efficient literary institution in a more central place.
President Cheney held many important positions of confidence and trust in this denomination. Twice was moderator of General Conference, and occupied important position on the Conference Board.
He represented his denomination as delegate to the General Baptists of England. He has been recording secretary of both the Foreign and Home Mission Societies, and president of the Education and Anti-Slavery Societies. He was foremost in vision to merge the Free Baptists with the larger open-communion Baptist, and worked to that end not only with Baptists but with Christian and other denominations until his demise.
After his second wife died, he married Emeline S. (Aldrich) Burlingame, on July 5, 1892. For many years their interests had been identical in Christian and reformatory work. She was a dear companion in his last years.
--For more information, read "Life Story, O.B. Cheney, by Emeline Burlingame Cheney, pub. 1907, and "Cyclopedia of Free Baptists, pub. 1889, by Burgess and Ward."
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His parents were Moses Cheney and Abigail(Morrison) Cheney. They were pious parents of Free Will Baptist faith. Oren B. Cheney was raised of New England stock, in which the religious element had been strongly developed. Moses Cheney was several times a member of the state legislature. He, with his cousin, went into the paper-mill business, and formed "Cheney and Mores"-the name by which the firm was best known--- and it was one of the first built in New Hampshire. Paper was sold in Portland, Boston and New York, as well as in towns surrounding it.
Dr. Cheney first attended Parsonfield Seminary and New Hampton Institution, and graduated from Dartmouth College in 1839. He was converted in the spring of 1836 and, walking from Dartmouth to his native place, he was baptized by Rev. Simeon Dana, and united with the Ashland church.
After graduation he became principal of the Farmington ME Acadamy in the autumn of 1839. He became principal of the Strafford Academy in 1841. Then he taught the Greenland, N.H., Academy near Portsmouth and was licensed by the Portsmouth church. He was ordained in the Effingham Hill, N.H. church, in the autumn of 1844, by Rev. John Buzzell, Rev. Benj. S. Manson, and others. He held anti-slavery sentiments, and this pastorate was laid down because of opposition to his views.
He married Miss Caroline A. Rundlett, of Stratham, N.H. Jan 30, 1840. Their son, Horace died after graduating from college and taking a credible position in the practice of law.
Dr. Cheney was married on Aug. 1847, to Nancy S. Perkins, daughter of Rev. Thomas Perkins, and they had two daughters.
In 1851-52, he was sent to the Legislature by the Whigs and Free-soilers, and voted for the orginal Maine Temperance Law. In 1852, he went to Augusta for five years as pastor of the church. On Sept. 22, 1854, he received a letter from Rev. J.A. Lowell, principal of Parsonfield Seminary,(a FWBapt school) announcing that the Seminary building had been burned the day before.
From that day Dr. Cheney consecrated himself to build for the Free Baptists an efficient literary institution in a more central place.
President Cheney held many important positions of confidence and trust in this denomination. Twice was moderator of General Conference, and occupied important position on the Conference Board.
He represented his denomination as delegate to the General Baptists of England. He has been recording secretary of both the Foreign and Home Mission Societies, and president of the Education and Anti-Slavery Societies. He was foremost in vision to merge the Free Baptists with the larger open-communion Baptist, and worked to that end not only with Baptists but with Christian and other denominations until his demise.
After his second wife died, he married Emeline S. (Aldrich) Burlingame, on July 5, 1892. For many years their interests had been identical in Christian and reformatory work. She was a dear companion in his last years.
--For more information, read "Life Story, O.B. Cheney, by Emeline Burlingame Cheney, pub. 1907, and "Cyclopedia of Free Baptists, pub. 1889, by Burgess and Ward."
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Contributed by Winnie Yandell
His parents were Moses Cheney and Abigail(Morrison) Cheney. They were pious parents of Free Will Baptist faith. Oren B. Cheney was raised of New England stock, in which the religious element had been strongly developed. Moses Cheney was several times a member of the state legislature. He, with his cousin, went into the paper-mill business, and formed "Cheney and Mores"-the name by which the firm was best known--- and it was one of the first built in New Hampshire. Paper was sold in Portland, Boston and New York, as well as in towns surrounding it.
Dr. Cheney first attended Parsonfield Seminary and New Hampton Institution, and graduated from Dartmouth College in 1839. He was converted in the spring of 1836 and, walking from Dartmouth to his native place, he was baptized by Rev. Simeon Dana, and united with the Ashland church.
After graduation he became principal of the Farmington ME Acadamy in the autumn of 1839. He became principal of the Strafford Academy in 1841. Then he taught the Greenland, N.H., Academy near Portsmouth and was licensed by the Portsmouth church. He was ordained in the Effingham Hill, N.H. church, in the autumn of 1844, by Rev. John Buzzell, Rev. Benj. S. Manson, and others. He held anti-slavery sentiments, and this pastorate was laid down because of opposition to his views.
He married Miss Caroline A. Rundlett, of Stratham, N.H. Jan 30, 1840. Their son, Horace died after graduating from college and taking a credible position in the practice of law.
Dr. Cheney was married on Aug. 1847, to Nancy S. Perkins, daughter of Rev. Thomas Perkins, and they had two daughters.
In 1851-52, he was sent to the Legislature by the Whigs and Free-soilers, and voted for the orginal Maine Temperance Law. In 1852, he went to Augusta for five years as pastor of the church. On Sept. 22, 1854, he received a letter from Rev. J.A. Lowell, principal of Parsonfield Seminary,(a FWBapt school) announcing that the Seminary building had been burned the day before.
From that day Dr. Cheney consecrated himself to build for the Free Baptists an efficient literary institution in a more central place.
President Cheney held many important positions of confidence and trust in this denomination. Twice was moderator of General Conference, and occupied important position on the Conference Board.
He represented his denomination as delegate to the General Baptists of England. He has been recording secretary of both the Foreign and Home Mission Societies, and president of the Education and Anti-Slavery Societies. He was foremost in vision to merge the Free Baptists with the larger open-communion Baptist, and worked to that end not only with Baptists but with Christian and other denominations until his demise.
After his second wife died, he married Emeline S. (Aldrich) Burlingame, on July 5, 1892. For many years their interests had been identical in Christian and reformatory work. She was a dear companion in his last years.
--For more information, read "Life Story, O.B. Cheney, by Emeline Burlingame Cheney, pub. 1907, and "Cyclopedia of Free Baptists, pub. 1889, by Burgess and Ward."
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His parents were Moses Cheney and Abigail(Morrison) Cheney. They were pious parents of Free Will Baptist faith. Oren B. Cheney was raised of New England stock, in which the religious element had been strongly developed. Moses Cheney was several times a member of the state legislature. He, with his cousin, went into the paper-mill business, and formed "Cheney and Mores"-the name by which the firm was best known--- and it was one of the first built in New Hampshire. Paper was sold in Portland, Boston and New York, as well as in towns surrounding it.
Dr. Cheney first attended Parsonfield Seminary and New Hampton Institution, and graduated from Dartmouth College in 1839. He was converted in the spring of 1836 and, walking from Dartmouth to his native place, he was baptized by Rev. Simeon Dana, and united with the Ashland church.
After graduation he became principal of the Farmington ME Acadamy in the autumn of 1839. He became principal of the Strafford Academy in 1841. Then he taught the Greenland, N.H., Academy near Portsmouth and was licensed by the Portsmouth church. He was ordained in the Effingham Hill, N.H. church, in the autumn of 1844, by Rev. John Buzzell, Rev. Benj. S. Manson, and others. He held anti-slavery sentiments, and this pastorate was laid down because of opposition to his views.
He married Miss Caroline A. Rundlett, of Stratham, N.H. Jan 30, 1840. Their son, Horace died after graduating from college and taking a credible position in the practice of law.
Dr. Cheney was married on Aug. 1847, to Nancy S. Perkins, daughter of Rev. Thomas Perkins, and they had two daughters.
In 1851-52, he was sent to the Legislature by the Whigs and Free-soilers, and voted for the orginal Maine Temperance Law. In 1852, he went to Augusta for five years as pastor of the church. On Sept. 22, 1854, he received a letter from Rev. J.A. Lowell, principal of Parsonfield Seminary,(a FWBapt school) announcing that the Seminary building had been burned the day before.
From that day Dr. Cheney consecrated himself to build for the Free Baptists an efficient literary institution in a more central place.
President Cheney held many important positions of confidence and trust in this denomination. Twice was moderator of General Conference, and occupied important position on the Conference Board.
He represented his denomination as delegate to the General Baptists of England. He has been recording secretary of both the Foreign and Home Mission Societies, and president of the Education and Anti-Slavery Societies. He was foremost in vision to merge the Free Baptists with the larger open-communion Baptist, and worked to that end not only with Baptists but with Christian and other denominations until his demise.
After his second wife died, he married Emeline S. (Aldrich) Burlingame, on July 5, 1892. For many years their interests had been identical in Christian and reformatory work. She was a dear companion in his last years.
--For more information, read "Life Story, O.B. Cheney, by Emeline Burlingame Cheney, pub. 1907, and "Cyclopedia of Free Baptists, pub. 1889, by Burgess and Ward."
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