People/CharactersEdnah Dow Cheney

Ednah Dow Littlehale Cheney (June 27, 1824 – November 19, 1904) was a writer, reformer, and philanthropist, born on Beacon Hill, Boston to Sargent Smith Littledale and Ednah Parker (Dow). She was educated in private schools in Boston. She was secretary of the School of Design for Women from 1851 till 1854. She married portrait artist Seth Wells Cheney on May 19, 1853, but he died in 1856. Their only child, Margaret Swan Cheney (September 8, 1855 – September 22, 1882) died of tuberculosis while studying at MIT.

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