History of Groveland, (Livingston County) New York United States of America

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John Vance Cheney Biographical Sketch

John Vance Cheney, 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).

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor