Charles W. TENNEY

TENNEY

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 4/7/2011 at 00:22:01

Charles W. Tenney

Charles W. TENNEY was born in New York, February 16, 1834; he died at his home in Seattle, Washington, March 1, 1906. He located in Cerro Gordo county, Iowa, in the spring of 1855, and resided there until two years ago [1905]. He was a member of the First Board of Supervisors; was elected County Surveyor in 1863; was a member of the Board of Trustees of the State Agricultural College [present day Iowa State University, Ames] in 1879, from which position he resigned in 1882, when Governor KIRKWOOD was appointed to succeed him. He represented the Fifty-ninth District, consisting of Cerro Gordo, Winnebago, Worth and Kossuth counties, in the Twelfth General Assembly

SOURCE:
HARLAN, Edgar Rubey, Ed. Annals of Iowa p. 400. State of Iowa Historical Society. Iowa City. 1907.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, April of 2011