Seth Wells Cheney
American, 1810 - 1856
Seth's first wife, Emily Woodbridge Pitkin, whom he married in 1847, died of tuberculosis. In 1853, he married Ednah Dow Littlehale of Boston (1824-1904), and they had one daughter, Margaret Swan Cheney (died of typhoid in infancy, 1855). Ednah Dow Cheney was a prolific writer and literary critic. She was an ardent feminist; she was involved with the Anti-Slavery movement; a patron and critic of the arts; and she was involved in transcendentalism, the Concord School of Philosophy, Psychometrics and the heretical Unitarianism of Theodore Parker. Seth Wells Cheney suffered ill health all of his life. He died of tuberculosis at age 46 on 10 September 1856.
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American, 1879 - 1916