Biography:  JUDGE EDWARD J. TENNEY,  Sullivan Co., NH

Granite State Magazine An Illustrated Monthly Devoted to the History,
Story, Scenery, Industry and Interest of New Hampshire 
Edited By George Waldo Browne 
Volume I. January to June, 1906 
Manchester, N.H.:
Granite State Publishing Company 1906

page 306

JUDGE EDWARD J. TENNEY, the second son of Amos and Persis S. (Pomeroy)
Tenney, was born in Greenwich, Mass., December 11, 1836, and moved
with his parents to Claremont the following April. Educated in the
public schools of the town and the academy, he early entered the
grocery business, which he followed, in partnership with Tolles and
then Barrett, until 1881. He represented the town in the legislature
in 1871-72, was twice elected rail road commissioner, deputy collector
of internal revenue from 1887 to 1899, director and treasurer of the
Claremont Building Association, appointed judge of probate for
Sullivan county in 1891, and held many other positions of trust and
importance in both political and industrial work. He married, in 1859,
Miss Frances M. Hall of Claremont, and, besides the widow, a son,
George Amos, cashier of the People's National Bank of Claremont,
survives him. He died January 15, 1906, from the bursting of a blood
vessel in his brain, and he was buried in the Episcopal church
cemetery.

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March 2000


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