Railroad town, Spokane County seat, factory town, shopping and supply center, and education town; Cheney has been all of these things. Even before it was incorporated as a city in 1883, Cheney was the Spokane County seat, had a bustling business and financial district, and had established the Benjamin P. Cheney Academy, financed by our city's namesake. From Daniel Percival leading the way to establish the school and our municipal infrastructure, to Tom Trulove leading a mature university town through a disaster, these twenty-five biographical sketches tell us about the men and their times which shaped the first one hundred years of Cheney, Washington.