Text Appearing Before Image: Abigail CheneyMother of Oren B. Cheney Text Appearing After Image: Moses CheneyFather of Oren B. Cheney ANCESTRYBOYHOOD On the tenth of December, 1816, while a snow-storm was raging without, in a modest, but com-fortable home, in a quiet New Hampshire village,a blue-eyed baby boy opened his eyes and caughthis first glimpse of life. On December twenty-second, 1903, those eyesclosed on earthly scenes and a few days later astately form was laid at rest. The life lived andthe influence exerted in the years that bridgethese dates will be the theme of this book. Heredity is of uncertain value. Men that havehonored themselves and their country havechanged their names, because of the stigma des-cending from unworthy ancestors. Others, whoselives are insipidly weak, show an overweeningpride in tracing their line of descent back to nobleor heroic characters. Yet the man is not livingwho would not rejoice in an honorable ancestry. Oren Burbank Cheney was born of sturdy NewEngland stock, in which the religious element hadbeen strongly developed through several g
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