Government employee. Correspondence (1904–1908); recollections (1955); allotment records (1908); Civil War papers (1864); and published materials (1932–1954) relating to Indian Territory events of the early twentieth century and reflecting Chaney’s experiences while traveling through the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations as clerk-in-charge of the Choctaw-Chickasaw allotment division of the Dawes Commission.