Background
Tenney, William Jewett was born in 1811 in Newport, Rhode Island, United States. Son of Caleb and Ruth (Channing) Tenney.
Tenney, William Jewett was born in 1811 in Newport, Rhode Island, United States. Son of Caleb and Ruth (Channing) Tenney.
Graduated from Yale, 1832.
Worked at Retreat for Insane, Hartford, Connecticut, 1835. Journalist New York City mags. including New York Journal of Commerce, Evening Post, Mining Magazine, 1840-1853. Reader, editor D. Appleton & Company, 1853-1883, edited Appleton’s Annual Cyclopaedia.
Author: Military and Naval History of the Rebellion in the United States, 1865. A Grammatical Analyzer, 1866. Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, 1881.
Married Elizabeth M. Benton, 1839.