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- The Cheney Genealogy page 155-156
239. NATHANIEL,7 (Peter,6 Levi,5 William,4 William,3 William,2 William,1) b. in Orange, June 23, 1824, m. Nov. 26, 1846, Mary Angeline Eddy of Warwick, b. July 3, 1823.
He resided in Boston about six years, being in company
with G. W. Adams, S. A. Denio, cor. Causeway and Friend sts. dealing in iron for buildings, bridges, &c. In 1852 he went to New York as partner of D. D. Badger & Charles Reed in the Architectural Iron Works; the firm became Cheney and Hewlett. This firm, of which Mr. Cheney was vice-president and treasurer many years, furnished the iron work of the Connecticut Capitol at Hartford; a portion of that used in the dome of the U. S. capitol building at Washington, D. C.; also the iron work of the Congressional Library which was constructed in the Capitol building, that for the dome of the Conservatory of the Capitol gardens, that for the famous "Ford's Theatre," and a part of that used in the Treasury building. He resides now at Orange and there he and his wife have celebrated their Golden Wedding in the well-known "Cheney mansion," on the spot where stood the old homestead in which they and his sister Prudence and her husband were wedded on that eventful November morning.
CHILDREN.
I. MARTHA ROSELLA,8 b. at Malden, Mass. Aug. 17, 1849.
455. II. CHARLES EDWARD,8 b. at Greenpoint, N. Y. March 2
1854.
III. WILLIE E.,8 b. in New York city July 11, d. Aug. 22, 185
IV. CLARA JANE,8 b. Nov. 24, 1857, m. Jan. 22, 1879, Arth
Newhall of Orange, Mass.
V. MARY A.,8 b. in New York city April 24, d. July 24, 185
VI. LIZZIE ESTELLE,8 b. Aug. 10, 1860.
VII. FRANK E.,8 b. in Brooklyn, N. Y. Sept. 13, 1861, d. Sept. 1
1862.
VIII. LUTHER FLETCHER,8 b. in Brooklyn, N. Y. June 4, d. Sep
5, 1864.
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