Horace B. Cheney

[3] After graduation Cheney and his father made a tour de Europe, and on return he started as regular apprentice in the Cheney Brothers Silk Manufacturing Company at the broad goods department.

In 1909 he became director of The Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company[4] for a short period.

In August 1936 he died in Santa Fe Hospital, due to injuries from a car accident.

The Mechanical Engineering Magazine, (1937) summarized his contributions as follows: The cooperation between Cheney and Gantt dated back to the 1910s.

Henry L. Gantt's connection with the firm of Cheney Brothers had started in the fall of 1912.

Horace B. Cheney, 1917
Cheney Brothers Mills in South Manchester, where Cheney became general manager of the mill, 1920