When Rev. Charles Rockwell Tenney was born on 23 February 1854, in Glover, Orleans, Vermont, United States, his father, Rev. Timothy Jackman Tenney, was 47 and his mother, Izah B. P. Gibson, was 34. He married Elizabeth Goddard Brooks on 31 December 1878. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Mattapoisett, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States in 1880 and Sturbridge, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States in 1910. He died on 5 January 1928, at the age of 73, and was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Auburn, Androscoggin, Maine, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln was Elected President of the United States in November of 1860
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
English (East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire): from the Middle English personal name Tenny, of uncertain origin.
English: in southwestern England, occasionally a variant of Tinney .
History: This name was brought to America in 1638 by Thomas Tenney, a member of a party led by the Rev. Ezekiel Rogers from Rowley, east Yorkshire, England, to found Rowley, MA. Most (probably all) modern American families with this name are descended from him.
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