Tenney, Adna (1810-1900)

Name:

Tenney, Adna (1810-1900)

Title:

Captain, New Hampshire Militia, 1838
Member, New Hampshire House of Representatives, 1853-1854

Born:

02/26/1810

Birthplace:

Hanover, NH

Died:

08/17/1900

Death Location:

Oberlin, OH

Residence:

Hanover, NH 1810, 1840, 1850, 1853
Manchester, NH 1845, 1848, 1872
New York, NY
Baltimore, MD
Concord, NH 1852, 1853, 1860-1864, 1870-71, 1879
Boston, MA 1844, 1857, 1870
Vineland, NJ 1864
Winona, MN 1874, 1875
Cleveland, OH 1881
Oberlin, OH 1900

Nationality:

American

Occupation:

Farmer
Portrait Painter

Father:

Tenney, John (1767-1847)

Mother:

Eaton, Lucinda (1770-1855)

Relations:

Uncle of Ulysses Dow Tenney

Spouse:

(1) Emeline H. Perley, December 11, 1834
(2) Susan C. Weld, October 21, 1838

Children:

Henry Martyn, born May 16, 1841; Died February 23, 1932; minister, Oberlin, OH
Charles Adna, born June 6, 1847; September 4, 1917; photographer, Winona, MN

Notes:

"Art and Artists in Manchester," Manchester Historic Association Collections, Volume 4, 1908-1910, 113.

Martha J. Tenney, The Tenney Family or the Descendants of Thomas Tenney, of Rowley, Mass., 1638-1890. (Boston, Massachusetts: American Printing and Engraving Company, 1891), 136, 230-231.

"Portraits for Posterity," The Granite Monthly. A New Hampshire Magazine Devoted to Literature, Biography, History, and State Progress, 7(November 1883)2, 37-46.

"Mr. Adna Tenney, the Portrait Painter," New Hampshire Patriot and State Gazette, Concord, New Hampshire, December 22, 1852.

"A True Artist," State Capital Reporter, Concord, New Hampshire, October 21, 1853, 2.

"A New Studio," Congregational Journal, Concord, New Hampshire, February 7, 1861, 2.

"News Items," New Hampshire Statesman, Concord, New Hampshire, April 1, 1864,

Damrell & Moore and George Coolidge, The Boston Almanac For the Year 1857. (Boston, MA: John P. Jewett & Co., 1857), 150.

Westwood Cemetery, Oberlin, OH