Youth
Cheney's parents were Knight Dexter Cheney and Ednah Dow Smith Cheney of South Manchester, Connecticut. His extended family were leading American silk producers. The Cheney Brothers Historic District established landmark status in South Manchester for the Cheney family silk mills, workers' houses, civic buildings and Cheney mansions. He graduated from Yale University in 1904, where he was a member of the Skull and Bones secret society.
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Famous quotes containing the word youth:
“We have all heard of Young America. He is the most current youth of the age.
Some think him conceited, and arrogant; but has he not reason to entertain a rather extensive opinion of himself? Is he not the inventor and owner of the present, and sole hope of the future?”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
“Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.”
—Jane Austen (1775–1817)
“The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)