Edward Payson Tenney

Background

Tenney, Edward Payson was born on September 29, 1835 in Concord, New Hampshire, United States. Son of Review A. P. and Mary Tenney.

Education

Educated Pembroke Academy, 1851-1854. Dartmouth College, 1854-1855. Graduate Bangor Theological Seminary, 1858.

Post-graduate studies Andover Theological Seminary, 1860. 9 years’ course of topical studies in the libraries of Boston. (honorary Master of Arts, Dartmouth, 1878).

Career

2d, Ellen Weeks, December 8, 1862. Ordained Congleton ministry. Pastor in Eastern Massachusetts, 18 years.

Brief editorial service on The Pacific, San Francisco, and the Congressional Review, Boston. President Colorado College, 1876-1884. Author: The Silent House, 1876.

Coronation, 1877; Agamenticus, 1878. The New West, 1878; Colorado and the New West, 1880. Constance of Acadia; The Triumphs of the Cross, 1895.

Our Elder Brother, 1897. The Dream of My Youth, 1901. Contrasts in Social Progress, 1907 (new review edit., 1910).

Looking Forward Into the Past, 1910. The Twentieth Century Imitation of Christ, 1916. Also Chinese translation of Social Progress, 1910.

Home: Lynn, Mass.

Connections

Married Sarah J. Holden, December, 1860.

Father:

Review A. P.

Mother:

Mary Tenney

Spouse:

Sarah J. Holden