Jonathan Tenney

For nine winters previous to his graduation, he was a popular teacher in district and village schools in his native state.

He resigned to become editor and publisher of the Stars and Stripes, the influence of which resulted in placing the Republican Party in power in the state of New Hampshire.

[2] In 1874, having been appointed Deputy Superintendent of Public Instruction for the state of New York, he moved to Albany, and was made librarian of the Young Men's Association.

[2] He married in Boston, Massachusetts, 20 March 1852, Harriette Ackland Batchelder, preceptress of the Pittsfield High School, who died in Boscawen, New Hampshire, 13 September 1864.

[2] Dr. Tenney was a man of quiet and retiring habits; true and constant in friendship, intimate with few but courteous to all; a good conversationalist, laden with valuable knowledge; not an offhand public speaker, but he gave well-studied logic—"solid gold".