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the United States Geological Survey and during this period 
worked in Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, West 
Virginia, Illinois and Michigan. On September 1, 1911, he 
accepted the position of wholesale agent for the Racine Lumber 
and Manufacturing Company of Racine, Wis., which he held at 
the time of his death. He had been on the road as a salesman 
seven years and during this time had traveled extensively. 
He was a member of the German Reformed church and in 
politics was a Republican. He belonged to the Independent 
Order of Odd Fellows. 
He died February 20, 1912, in the Borgess Hospital, Kalama- 
zoo, Mich., and was buried in Penn Hall, Center County, Pa. 
Edward G. Cheyney 
' Business address, University Farm, St. Paul, Minn. 
Residence, 2116 Knapp Street, St. Paul, Minn. 
Edward Gheen Cheyney was born November 24, 1878, in Washington, 
D. C., the son of Rufus T. Cheyney, of the United States Navy Depart- 
ment, and Lucie Marie de Brunin (de Bolmar) Cheyney. On his father’s 
side he is of English and on his mother’s of French and French-Canadian 
ancestry. His maternal grandfather was an aide of Napoleon at the battle 
of Waterloo. He has one brother, Charles Bolmar Cheyney, B.A. Yale 
795 and M.A. ’o4. 
He was prepared at Western High School, Washington, D. C., and 
received theedegree of B.A. in 1900 from Cornell University, where he 
was a member of Alpha Zeta. In the year 1900-01 he was employed 
by the Deering Harvester Company of Chicago, IIl., and in 1901-02 with 
the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad at Brunswick, Md. In 1902-03 he tutored 
in Apalachicola, Fla., and from July, 1903, to October, 1904, was student 
assistant in the Forest Service. 
He was married September 11, 1907, in Apalachicola, Fla., to Miss 
Harriet Frances Porter of Apalachicola, daughter of R. H. Porter. They 
have two daughters: Virginia Brunin Cheyney, born July 16, 1908, in 
Apalachicola, Fla., and Lucie Marie Cheyney, born September 7, 1909, in 
Apalachicola. 
In 1905-06 Cheyney was assistant and the next year instructor 
in forestry in the University of Minnesota. In 1907 he was 
made assistant professor and in I91I was appointed professor 
of forestry and director of the College of Forestry, his present 
position. 
