Turner County, SD Biographies.....Cheney, Howard October 2, 1857 - 
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Source: MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF Turner, Lincoln, Union and Clay Counties, South Dakota. (1897)
Author: Geo. Ogle & Co.

HOWARD CHENEY, a prosperous citizen of Germantown township, Turner county, is a
native of Kane county, Ill., and was born October 2, 1857. He is a son of Alvin and
Sarah (Murphy) Cheney, the former a native of New Hampshire and the latter born on
Nantucket island, Mass. Alvin Cheney passed his boyhood and obtained his education
in his native state, where his parents died when he was quite young. He was a farmer
by occupation and came to Illinois about 1857 with his wife and located	on a farm in
Kane county. From Kane county he went to De Kalb county, same state, where he
purchased a farm and remained until 1883, and then with his wife came to live with
their son, the subject of this biography. They are the parents of five children,
viz.: Charles, who died when he was quite young; Walter, residing in Parker
township, Turner county; William, living in De Kalb county, Ill.; Howard, our
subject; and Jennie, the wife of George Bowen, of Sioux Falls, S. Dak.

Howard was but four years old when his parents moved to De Kalb county, Ill., and
there he was reared and obtained his education in the common-schools and assisted
his father in the labor of the farm. In 1872 he went to Hinckley, Ill., where he
remained until he came to Turner county, Dak. Ter., in 1879. He entered at that time
160 acres as a homestead, which up to the present time he has been constantly
improving with good buildings, fences, etc., and now has a fine piece of property.

Mr. Cheney was married May 4, 1887, to Miss Minnie Costain, who died May 17, 1888,
and he was subsequently united in wedlock to Della Larcom, the widow of James Allen,
a native of Michigan. He has served as constable of Germantown township for two
years, and in politics votes the Republican ticket. He and wife are members of the
Presbyterian church at Parker.


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