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Title
C63825-2
Date(s)
- 1906 (Creation)
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(1919-1980)
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ca. 1906. A portrait of Ben Cheney as an infant. He was born in Lima, Montana, in 1905. This young boy grew to love baseball, to develop a business that included lumber mills in three states and to become the owner of the Tacoma Giants baseball team and a stockholder in the San Francisco Giants. He generously spent his money so youngsters could play in organized team sports. Over 20 years more than 5,000 persons had played on the Cheney Studs teams. He lived out his benevolent life in the Tacoma area and died in 1971. (The Ben Cheney Story by Med Nicholson, The Sou'wester, Fall 2000)
Portraits; Cheney, Ben B., 1905-1971; Philanthropists;