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Leonidas Frank Chaney was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado, to Frank H. Chaney (a barber) and Emma Alice Kennedy. His father was of English and French ancestry, and his mother was of Scottish, English, and Irish descent.
Leonidas Frank Chaney was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado, to Frank H. Chaney and Emma Alice Kennedy; his father had mostly English and some French ancestry, and his mother was of Scottish, English, and Irish descent.
His parents, Frank H. Chaney, a successful barber, and Emma Alice Kennedy Chaney, daughter of the founder of the Colorado School for the Deaf, were both hearing-impaired. Overall, Chaney claimed to have had a happy childhood.
Emma Alice. Kennedy. Chaney. Mother of actor Lon Chaney 1883-1930. Emma Alice Kennedy Chaney was the granddaughter of William Hugh Kennedy (#181471732)and Margaret Jane Ralston Kennedy (#11016743) of Brown County, Ohio and Margaret later of Douglas County, Kansas.
Feb 13, 2014 · Moving up the family tree, I'll start by pointing out the extraordinary parents of Lon Chaney, Sr.: Frank Chaney and Emma Alice Kennedy. Both Frank and Emma were deaf and mute, Emma from birth, or shortly thereafter, and Frank as the result of an illness which struck him at about age two.
Jul 6, 2021 · Editor's note: This July, as Colorado Springs gears up for its 150th birthday on the 31st, ... Emma Alice Kennedy Chaney, had been laid to rest in 1914 in the city’s Evergreen Cemetery. ...
Oct 10, 2012 · Emma Alice Kennedy, the much adored mother of Lon, had been born deaf, her father Jonathan Ralston Kennedy founded the Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind in 1874, and it was here while working as a teacher that she meet Frank.
