George W. Cheyney

[1] One of eight children, his father was a businessman who had served as a captain during the American Civil War and his mother was from an old Quaker family.

[2] The union produced six daughters: Bernice, Frances, Mary, Ruth, Edith, and Eleanor.

[5] Cheyney was elected to represent Cochise county in the Council (upper house) during the 15th Arizona Territorial Legislature.

[3] During the session, he fulfilled two campaign promises by voting to block any new subdividing of counties and for moving the territorial capital from Prescott to Phoenix.

[6] Cheyney was sworn in as Superintendent of Public Instruction on April 11, 1889, having been appointed to the office three days earlier.

[5] In 1890, Cheyney was the Republican challenger to Arizona's territorial delegate to Congress, Mark Smith.

[11] In his final weeks, he traveled to San Francisco, California to seek medical treatment from George E.