Rufus was the fourth child of Thomas W. Cheyney and Jane Ashbridge. He was for twenty-eight years a very efficient clerk in the U.S. Navy Department, and his death, like that of his father, was sudden.

He was married in 1872 to Lucie Marie Brunin Bolmar. Their three children were Charles Bolmar, Florence Lippincott and Edward Gheen Cheyney.

Portrait/cabinet card - T. W. Taylor, West Chester, PA - Sept. 18, 1870

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