Person Colby Cheney
Person Colby Cheney | |
---|---|
Mayor of Manchester, New Hampshire | |
In office 1872–1872 | |
Preceded by | James A. Weston |
Succeeded by | Charles H. Bartlett |
Member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives | |
In office 1854 | |
Personal details | |
Born | February 25, 1828 Holderness, New Hampshire (now Ashland) |
Died | June 19, 1901 Dover, New Hampshire | (aged 73)
Political party | Republican |
Person Colby Cheney (February 25, 1828 – June 19, 1901) was a paper manufacturer, abolitionist and Republican politician from Manchester, New Hampshire. He was the 35th governor of New Hampshire and later represented the state in the United States Senate.
Biography
Cheney was born in Holderness (now Ashland) to abolitionists, Abigail and Moses Cheney. Oren Burbank Cheney, the founder of Bates College, was Person Cheney's older brother. Cheney attended academies in Peterborough and Hancock and the Parsonsfield Seminary in Parsonsfield, Maine. He engaged in the manufacture of paper in Peterborough until 1866, and in 1854 was a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives.
During the Civil War he was first lieutenant and regimental quartermaster in the Thirteenth Regiment of the New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry (1862–1863). He was state railroad commissioner 1864–1867. He moved to Manchester in 1867 and engaged in business as a dealer in paper stock and continued the manufacture of paper at Goffstown.
Political career
He also engaged in agricultural pursuits until being elected mayor of Manchester
Cheney served as
External links
- United States Congress. "Person Colby Cheney (id: C000343)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved February 14, 2008.
- Cheney at New Hampshire's Division of Historic Resources
- Sketches of Successful New Hampshire Men: Person Colby Cheney