Orange County FlArchives Biographies.....CHENEY, JOSEPH  Y. August 4, 1891 - 
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Author: The History of Florida:  Past & Present, The Lewis Publishing Co., 1923,  Vol. II  pg.228

     CHENEY, JOSEPH Y., manager of the Orlando Gas Company, a former officer 
in the American Army during the World war, is a native of Orlando, son of the 
late Judge JOHN M. CHENEY, whose distinguished record has been recounted 
elsewhere.  Except for the time he spent in the army JOSEPH Y. CHENEY has been 
closely identified with the business interests of Orlando since leaving 
college.
     JOSEPH Y. CHENEY was born in Orlando, August 4, 1891.  He is a graduate 
of the local high school, graduated Doctor of Science from Dartmouth College 
in 1913, and on his return home was for several years connected with the 
Orlando Water & Light Company, now the Orlando Gas Company, a public utility 
founded by his father.
     In August, 1917, he entered the Second Officers’ Training Camp at Fort 
Oglethorpe, was commissioned second lieutenant and assigned to duty with the 
Seventeenth Infantry.  He commanded a company which was sent to Tampa to guard 
the shipyards.  Later he was transferred to Camp Meade, Maryland, and was 
there when the armistice was signed.  In the meantime he had been promoted to 
first lieutenant and was discharged with that rank.
     Since the war Mr. CHENEY has been prominent in the American Legion in 
Florida, serving as post adjutant and post commander of the Orlando Post, as 
state adjutant of the legion, and is now a member of the state executive 
committee.  Mr. Cheney is also a Royal Arch Mason, Knight of Pythias and an 
Elk.
     In 1914 he married Miss HAZEL M. LOCKE of Lebanon, New Hampshire.  They 
have had two children, JOHN LOCKE, born March 7, 1916, and KATHERINE JULIETTE, 
the latter now deceased.


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