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John Ferguson Tenney

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John Ferguson Tenney

Birth
Methuen, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Death
5 Sep 1949 (aged 68)
New York, New York County, New York, USA
Burial
Methuen, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA Add to Map
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JOHN FERGUSON TENNEY, B A 1902 Born October 19,
1880, Methuen, MA, died September 5, 1949, New York City.
Father, George Washington Tenney, shoe manufacturer in
Methuen, son of John Ferguson and Hannah (Woodbury) Tenney
Mother, Alzaidia Maria (Tourtellot) Tenney, daughter of Amasa and Maria (Curtis) Tourtellot Yale relatives include a cousin, Daniel G Tenney, '91
Phillips-Andover First colloquy appointment Junior and Senior years
LL B Harvard 1905, lawyer in Seattle 1905-9, salesman C H Tenney & Company, commission hat merchants, New York City, 1909-26, underwriter New York Life Insurance Company 1926-49 (senior Nylic 1946-49), trustee Golden Rule Foundation and Endowment
Fund of American College in Madura, India, deacon Broadway Tabernacle (Congregational), New York City (in charge hospitality center for enlisted men during World War II and until his death)
Married October 5, 1910, Picton, Ont , Gena Branscombe
(B M Chicago Musical Coll , M A Hon Whitman 1932), daughter
of Henry William and Sara (Allison) Branscombe Children Gena
(B A Barnard 1934, Mrs Philip Henry Phenix), Vivian Allison (B A
Barnard 1935, M D Cornell 1939), Elizabeth (died 1919), Beatrice
Branscombe (Barnard 1934-37, Mrs Edgar Lloyd Brokow, Jr)
Death due to carcinoma Buried in Walnut Grove Cemetery,
Methuen
JOHN FERGUSON TENNEY, B A 1902 Born October 19,
1880, Methuen, MA, died September 5, 1949, New York City.
Father, George Washington Tenney, shoe manufacturer in
Methuen, son of John Ferguson and Hannah (Woodbury) Tenney
Mother, Alzaidia Maria (Tourtellot) Tenney, daughter of Amasa and Maria (Curtis) Tourtellot Yale relatives include a cousin, Daniel G Tenney, '91
Phillips-Andover First colloquy appointment Junior and Senior years
LL B Harvard 1905, lawyer in Seattle 1905-9, salesman C H Tenney & Company, commission hat merchants, New York City, 1909-26, underwriter New York Life Insurance Company 1926-49 (senior Nylic 1946-49), trustee Golden Rule Foundation and Endowment
Fund of American College in Madura, India, deacon Broadway Tabernacle (Congregational), New York City (in charge hospitality center for enlisted men during World War II and until his death)
Married October 5, 1910, Picton, Ont , Gena Branscombe
(B M Chicago Musical Coll , M A Hon Whitman 1932), daughter
of Henry William and Sara (Allison) Branscombe Children Gena
(B A Barnard 1934, Mrs Philip Henry Phenix), Vivian Allison (B A
Barnard 1935, M D Cornell 1939), Elizabeth (died 1919), Beatrice
Branscombe (Barnard 1934-37, Mrs Edgar Lloyd Brokow, Jr)
Death due to carcinoma Buried in Walnut Grove Cemetery,
Methuen


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