{"id":969,"date":"2014-02-04T15:46:38","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T22:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=969"},"modified":"2017-10-09T09:01:49","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T16:01:49","slug":"cheney-cora-1916","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=969","title":{"rendered":"CHENEY, CORA, 1916-1999"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Author of children&#8217;s books; Episcopal priest. Born&#8211; December 20, 1916, Birmingham. Parents&#8211; Franklin C. and Irene (Denny) Cheney. Married&#8211; Benjamin Waring Partridge, Jr., September 2, 1939. Children&#8211; Four. Education&#8211; Florida State College for Women, 1934-1936; University of Georgia, A.B., 1938; Antioch College, M.Ed., 1971.\u00a0 Author of over twenty books for children.\u00a0 Ordained as an Episcopal priest, 1999; set up rural parishes in several states, including Florida and Vermont.\u00a0 Oldest woman to be ordained to the Episcopal priesthood.\u00a0 Died February 21, 1999.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s Who of American Women, 1961-1962, Contemporary Authors online\u00a0and Something About the Author online<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alaska. New York; Dodd, 1980.<\/p>\n<p>The Case of the Iceland Dogs. New York; Dodd, 1977.<\/p>\n<p>Christmas Tree Hessian. New York; Holt, 1958.<\/p>\n<p>Crown of the World. New York; Dodd, 1979.<\/p>\n<p>Doll of Lilac Valley. New York; Knopf, 1959.<\/p>\n<p>Fortune Hill. New York; Holt, 1956.<\/p>\n<p>Girl at Jungle&#8217;s Edge. New York; Knopf, 1962.<\/p>\n<p>Incredible Deborah. New York; Scribner, 1967.<\/p>\n<p>Key of Gold. New York; Holt, 1955.<\/p>\n<p>Mystery of the Disappearing Cars. New York; Knopf, 1964.<\/p>\n<p>Peg-legged Pirate of Sulu. New York; Knopf, 1960.<\/p>\n<p>Plantation Doll. New York; Holt, 1955.<\/p>\n<p>Profiles From the Past; an Uncommon History of Vermont. Taftsville, Vt.; Countryman Press, 1976.<\/p>\n<p>The Rocking Chair Buck. New York; Holt, 1956.<\/p>\n<p>Rumpus on Commodore Hill. New York; Holt, 1957.<\/p>\n<p>Skeleton Cave. New York; Holt, 1954.<\/p>\n<p>Tales From a Taiwan Kitchen. New York; Dodd, 1976.<\/p>\n<p>Treasures of Lin Li-ti. New York; Hawthorn, 1969.<\/p>\n<p>Vermont, the State with a Storybook Past. Brattleboro, Vt.; S. Greene Press, 1976.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>China Sea Roundup. New York; Knopf, 1960.<\/p>\n<p>Rendezvous in Singapore. New York; Knopf, 1961.<\/p>\n<p>Underseas!. New York; Coward, 1961.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Author of children&#8217;s books; Episcopal priest. Born&#8211; December 20, 1916, Birmingham. Parents&#8211; Franklin C. and Irene (Denny) Cheney. Married&#8211; Benjamin Waring Partridge, Jr., September 2, 1939. Children&#8211; Four. Education&#8211; Florida State College for Women, 1934-1936; University of Georgia, A.B., 1938; Antioch College, M.Ed., 1971.\u00a0 Author of over twenty books for children.\u00a0 Ordained as an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-c","category-authors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=969"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6927,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969\/revisions\/6927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}