John Vance Cheney

John Vance Cheney (1848–1922) was an American poet and librarian, born at Groveland, New York. He was librarian of the San Francisco Free Public Library from 1887 to 1894, and of the Newberry Library in Chicago until 1899, and then lived in California.

His volumes of verse include Thistle Drift (1887), Out of the Silence (1897), The Time of Roses (1908) and At the Silver Gate (1911).