Biographical Sketch of John P. CHEYNEY (1904); Chester County, PA

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"Historical Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs
 of Chester and Delaware Counties, Pennsylvania", Vol. 2, edited by Gil-
 bert Cope and Henry Graham Ashmead, Lewis Publishing Company, New York,
 1904, pp. 453-4.

"JOHN P. CHEYNEY, known as one of the public-spirited citizens of West
Grove, Chester county, Pennsylvania, is the son of Moses Cheyney, who was
born in 1793, in Concord, Delaware county, and received his education in
the common schools of his native place, also attending a private school in
Burlington, New Jersey.  After finishing his course of study he was for
some time a schoolmaster in Bradford township, Chester county, subsequently
removing to Lancaster county, and later to Columbia, Pennsylvania, and
teaching in both places.  At Columbia he became engaged in the lumber busi-
ness, in which he continued for some time, and then went to Chester county,
where he bought a farm at Doe Run which he cultivated during the remainder
of his life.  He married Margaret, daughter of John and Ann Pyle, the form-
er being a farmer of London Grove, Chester county.  Mr. and Mrs. Cheyney
were the parents of the following children: Eliphaz, who married Eliza
Hayes, and Eliza Passmore, and was the father of eight children: William
H., whose wife was Philena Webb, and whose family consisted of four child-
ren; Anna, who died single; John P., mentioned at length hereinafter; and
one child who died in infancy.

"John P. Cheyney, son of Moses and Margaret (Pyle) Cheyney, was born in
1825, in Lancaster county, and obtained his education, partly at home,
under the tuition of his father, and partly at Westtown Boarding School.
He adopted as his calling the profession of teaching, and labored as an
educator in York, Pennsylvania, and also in Delaware.  After some years he
returned to Doe Run, where he undertook the management of his father's
farm.  In the course of time he relinquished this responsibility, and
moved to West Grove, where he has since led a retired life.  In politics
he is a staunch supporter of the principles advocated and upheld by the
Republican party, and it is a sufficient proof of the regard in which he
is held by his fellow citizens to say that he was by them accorded the
honor of being elected the first burgess of West Grove.  He has also served
as a member of the council, and has been a prime mover in various enter-
prises which have accrued to the benefit of the town.  He is a member of
the Society of Friends.

"Mr. Cheyney married Hannah C. Walton, and by this union became the father
of the following children: Joseph, who died single; Morris, who married
Anna Hadley, and has two children; Anna, who died young.  After the death
of his wife Mr. Cheyney married Laura M., daughter of Benjamin Hobson, a
farmer of Penn township, Chester county, Pennsylvania."