Born 13 Sep 1838 Providence, Clark IN
Died 23 Oct 1930 Seattle
please link: spouse Lucinda 5376877 father Samuel 5239297 mother Lucy 5103846
Submitted by lmyhre (#46871981)
HENRY LEVI DENNY was born Sept. 13, 1838, in New Providence, Ind. He married Dec. 19, 1858, Lucinda Baker, born in 1838. As an engineer on the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago Railroad, later called the Monon Line, during the War, he hauled troops and supplies for Gen. Sherman. Captured three times by Morgan the Raider he lost the sight of his right eye. He, his wife, and their two living children were in the family party of sixteen, which migrated to the Pacific Coast, via Panama, in 1866. Mrs. Denny's brother whose wife was Mr. Denny's sister, and four children accompanied them. After several years in Oregon, where he worked as engineer in a flour mill, Mr. Denny brought his family to Seattle in 1869. He worked as engineer in Henry Yesler's Mill. Because Mr. Yesler gave him the lumber, he built his house, sixteen by thirty feet, for ninety dollars. He bought one hundred and fifty-eight acres of government land, at $1.25 per acre, north of Green Lake, and laid out "Additions" named for himself and his wife, and promoted the building of a car line to them. In 1872, he took up a homestead on Sammanish Slough, later Woodenville. In 1899, he joined the gold rush to Alaska, where he worked as engineer on the "Seattle No. 3." He was an organizer and charter member of the First Christian Church of Seattle. At Mrs. Denny's seventy-first birthday celebration, nine of the sixteen, who made the trip across the Isthmus, were present, and the sixteen then had an even hundred descendants. Mrs. Denny died in 1913. He lived until Oct. 23, 1930, celebrating his ninety-second birthday. He was a member of the Borrowed Time Club and of the Pioneer Association.
Children, born in Ind., Ore. And Seattle:
i. Orin Horace Denny; b. and d. 1859
ii. Carl Albert Denny; b. 1861, d. 1890
iii. Icedora Naomi Denny; b. Dec. 5, 1863
iv. Harry Daniel Denny; b. Oct. 10, 1868; m. Josephine _______; d. Dec. 6, 1946
v. Rhoda May Denny; b. May 1, 1872
vi. Lucy Elizabeth Denny; b. Sept. 18, 1874
Margaret Collins Denny Dixon and Elizabeth Chapman Denny Vann, Denny Genealogy, Third Book, Richmond, Virginia, 1951, p. 184-185
Died 23 Oct 1930 Seattle
please link: spouse Lucinda 5376877 father Samuel 5239297 mother Lucy 5103846
Submitted by lmyhre (#46871981)
HENRY LEVI DENNY was born Sept. 13, 1838, in New Providence, Ind. He married Dec. 19, 1858, Lucinda Baker, born in 1838. As an engineer on the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago Railroad, later called the Monon Line, during the War, he hauled troops and supplies for Gen. Sherman. Captured three times by Morgan the Raider he lost the sight of his right eye. He, his wife, and their two living children were in the family party of sixteen, which migrated to the Pacific Coast, via Panama, in 1866. Mrs. Denny's brother whose wife was Mr. Denny's sister, and four children accompanied them. After several years in Oregon, where he worked as engineer in a flour mill, Mr. Denny brought his family to Seattle in 1869. He worked as engineer in Henry Yesler's Mill. Because Mr. Yesler gave him the lumber, he built his house, sixteen by thirty feet, for ninety dollars. He bought one hundred and fifty-eight acres of government land, at $1.25 per acre, north of Green Lake, and laid out "Additions" named for himself and his wife, and promoted the building of a car line to them. In 1872, he took up a homestead on Sammanish Slough, later Woodenville. In 1899, he joined the gold rush to Alaska, where he worked as engineer on the "Seattle No. 3." He was an organizer and charter member of the First Christian Church of Seattle. At Mrs. Denny's seventy-first birthday celebration, nine of the sixteen, who made the trip across the Isthmus, were present, and the sixteen then had an even hundred descendants. Mrs. Denny died in 1913. He lived until Oct. 23, 1930, celebrating his ninety-second birthday. He was a member of the Borrowed Time Club and of the Pioneer Association.
Children, born in Ind., Ore. And Seattle:
i. Orin Horace Denny; b. and d. 1859
ii. Carl Albert Denny; b. 1861, d. 1890
iii. Icedora Naomi Denny; b. Dec. 5, 1863
iv. Harry Daniel Denny; b. Oct. 10, 1868; m. Josephine _______; d. Dec. 6, 1946
v. Rhoda May Denny; b. May 1, 1872
vi. Lucy Elizabeth Denny; b. Sept. 18, 1874
Margaret Collins Denny Dixon and Elizabeth Chapman Denny Vann, Denny Genealogy, Third Book, Richmond, Virginia, 1951, p. 184-185
Born 13 Sep 1838 Providence, Clark IN
Died 23 Oct 1930 Seattle
please link: spouse Lucinda 5376877 father Samuel 5239297 mother Lucy 5103846
Submitted by lmyhre (#46871981)
HENRY LEVI DENNY was born Sept. 13, 1838, in New Providence, Ind. He married Dec. 19, 1858, Lucinda Baker, born in 1838. As an engineer on the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago Railroad, later called the Monon Line, during the War, he hauled troops and supplies for Gen. Sherman. Captured three times by Morgan the Raider he lost the sight of his right eye. He, his wife, and their two living children were in the family party of sixteen, which migrated to the Pacific Coast, via Panama, in 1866. Mrs. Denny's brother whose wife was Mr. Denny's sister, and four children accompanied them. After several years in Oregon, where he worked as engineer in a flour mill, Mr. Denny brought his family to Seattle in 1869. He worked as engineer in Henry Yesler's Mill. Because Mr. Yesler gave him the lumber, he built his house, sixteen by thirty feet, for ninety dollars. He bought one hundred and fifty-eight acres of government land, at $1.25 per acre, north of Green Lake, and laid out "Additions" named for himself and his wife, and promoted the building of a car line to them. In 1872, he took up a homestead on Sammanish Slough, later Woodenville. In 1899, he joined the gold rush to Alaska, where he worked as engineer on the "Seattle No. 3." He was an organizer and charter member of the First Christian Church of Seattle. At Mrs. Denny's seventy-first birthday celebration, nine of the sixteen, who made the trip across the Isthmus, were present, and the sixteen then had an even hundred descendants. Mrs. Denny died in 1913. He lived until Oct. 23, 1930, celebrating his ninety-second birthday. He was a member of the Borrowed Time Club and of the Pioneer Association.
Children, born in Ind., Ore. And Seattle:
i. Orin Horace Denny; b. and d. 1859
ii. Carl Albert Denny; b. 1861, d. 1890
iii. Icedora Naomi Denny; b. Dec. 5, 1863
iv. Harry Daniel Denny; b. Oct. 10, 1868; m. Josephine _______; d. Dec. 6, 1946
v. Rhoda May Denny; b. May 1, 1872
vi. Lucy Elizabeth Denny; b. Sept. 18, 1874
Margaret Collins Denny Dixon and Elizabeth Chapman Denny Vann, Denny Genealogy, Third Book, Richmond, Virginia, 1951, p. 184-185
Died 23 Oct 1930 Seattle
please link: spouse Lucinda 5376877 father Samuel 5239297 mother Lucy 5103846
Submitted by lmyhre (#46871981)
HENRY LEVI DENNY was born Sept. 13, 1838, in New Providence, Ind. He married Dec. 19, 1858, Lucinda Baker, born in 1838. As an engineer on the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago Railroad, later called the Monon Line, during the War, he hauled troops and supplies for Gen. Sherman. Captured three times by Morgan the Raider he lost the sight of his right eye. He, his wife, and their two living children were in the family party of sixteen, which migrated to the Pacific Coast, via Panama, in 1866. Mrs. Denny's brother whose wife was Mr. Denny's sister, and four children accompanied them. After several years in Oregon, where he worked as engineer in a flour mill, Mr. Denny brought his family to Seattle in 1869. He worked as engineer in Henry Yesler's Mill. Because Mr. Yesler gave him the lumber, he built his house, sixteen by thirty feet, for ninety dollars. He bought one hundred and fifty-eight acres of government land, at $1.25 per acre, north of Green Lake, and laid out "Additions" named for himself and his wife, and promoted the building of a car line to them. In 1872, he took up a homestead on Sammanish Slough, later Woodenville. In 1899, he joined the gold rush to Alaska, where he worked as engineer on the "Seattle No. 3." He was an organizer and charter member of the First Christian Church of Seattle. At Mrs. Denny's seventy-first birthday celebration, nine of the sixteen, who made the trip across the Isthmus, were present, and the sixteen then had an even hundred descendants. Mrs. Denny died in 1913. He lived until Oct. 23, 1930, celebrating his ninety-second birthday. He was a member of the Borrowed Time Club and of the Pioneer Association.
Children, born in Ind., Ore. And Seattle:
i. Orin Horace Denny; b. and d. 1859
ii. Carl Albert Denny; b. 1861, d. 1890
iii. Icedora Naomi Denny; b. Dec. 5, 1863
iv. Harry Daniel Denny; b. Oct. 10, 1868; m. Josephine _______; d. Dec. 6, 1946
v. Rhoda May Denny; b. May 1, 1872
vi. Lucy Elizabeth Denny; b. Sept. 18, 1874
Margaret Collins Denny Dixon and Elizabeth Chapman Denny Vann, Denny Genealogy, Third Book, Richmond, Virginia, 1951, p. 184-185
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