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successful revivals, especially in Boston, ^lass. On account of the views held by himself and his Log College friends on the manner of admitting candidates into the ministry, he and his party were exf>elled from the Fliiladelphia synod, but he etTected a reunion in 17.")8, the views held by either side not being radical and the trouble sincerely regretted. He was pastor of the Second Presbyt^'riau church in Pliiladelphia, 1743-G4, and built a large church by means of popular subscription, and in 1753 was sent to England with Samuel Davies to solicit contributions to tl.e College of Xew Jersey. He received the de- gree of M.A. from Yale in 1725. He is the au- thor of: The Pitcijicator. a pamphlet intended to effect a reunion with tlio Synod of Philadelphia; Sermons (1744); Discnurses on Seve7-al Subjects (17451: Sermons on Important Subjects Adapted to the Perilous State of the British Nation (1758), and over tliirty separately published discourses. He was married three times, and preached the funeral sermon of his first wife before 1740. He was married secondly, to Cornelia De Peyster, widow of Matthew Clarkson of New York, who died, March 19, 1753, and thirdly to Mrs. Sarah Spofford of New Jersey, by whom he had three children who survived liim. He died in Phil- adelphia. Pa., July 23. 1764, and his funeral ser- mon, preached by President Samuel Finley of Princeton, was pul)lished by William Bradford.

TENNENT, William, educator, was born in Ireland, in 1(173. He was graduated from Trinity college, Dublin, and took orders in the Estab- lished church in Ireland in 1704. He came to America with his wife and four children in 1718; settled in East Chester, and later at Bedford, N.Y.: was licensed to preach by the synod of Philadelphia, Sept. 17, 1718, and was pastor in East Chester and Bedford, N.Y., 1721-26, and at B«?nsalem and Neshaminy, Pa., in 1726-46. He opened a school for the instruction of candidates for the ministry at Neshaminy, which became known as the " Log College." This was the first theological school of the Presbyterian cluirch in America, and was the basis of Princeton college. In 1742 he retired, and he died in Neshaminy, Pa., May 6. 1746.

TENNEY, Edward Payson, author, was born in Concord. N.H., Sept. 20, 1835; son of the Uev. Asa Peaslee and Mary (Tenney) Tenney; grandson of Jonathan and Anna (Bailey) Tenney, and of A.sa and Polly (White) Tenney, and a descendant of Thoma.s Tenney, who immigrated to Rawley. Mass., and was resiiling in Salem, 16:W'. He attended P.-mbroke (N.I I.) academy, 1851-54, matriculate«i. ajii. He was ordained to the Congregational ministry, Oct. 19, 1858;

was pastor in eastern Massachusetts, 1859-76: president of Colorado college, Colorado Springs, 1876-84, and subsequently gave his entire atten- tion to literary pursuits. He was married, first, Dec. 1. 1860. to Sarah J., daugliter of Daniel aj|d Roxana (Haynes) Holden of Concord, N.H.; and secondly, Dec. 8, 1862, to Ellen, daughter of Timothy and Elizabeth (Whitney) Weeks of Lowell, Mass. The honorary degree of A.M. was conferred upon him by Dartmouth in 1878. He was associated for a brief time with the editorial staffs of The Pacijic of San Francisco, Cal., and the Congregational Revieto of Boston, Mass., and is the author of: The Silent House (1876); Coro- nation (1877), Agamenticns (1878); The New West (1818); Colorado and the New West (1880); Constance of Acadia (1886); The Triumjihs of the Cross (1895); A Story of the Heavenly Camp Fires (1896); Our Elder Brother (1897); The Dream of My Yoiith (1901).

TENNEY, William Jewett, author, was born in Newport, R.I.. in 1814; sou of the Rev. C. J. and Ruth (Channing) Tenney. He was graduated from Yale in 1832; studied medicine in Boston, Mass.; studied law in New Haven, Conn., and began practice in New Y'ork city. He was an editor of the Evening Post, 1842-43 and 1847-48, and in 1853 entered the publishing house of D. Appleton & Co. He began the issue of the "Annual Cyclopaedia ''. serving as its editor from 1861-82. He was a freeholder and councilman of Elizabeth, N.J.; president of the school Vioard: re-organized the public school system, and was appointed by President Buchanan, collector of the port. He was presiding judge of the Brook- lyn, N.Y., municipal court, for two years. He was twice married, his second wife being Sarah, daughter of Dr. Orestes Brownson, and she is tiie author of: '"Marion Elwood, or How Girls Live" (1859); "At Anchor" (1865); and "Life of Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin, Prince and Priest " (1878). She died in Elizabeth, N.J., Oct. 30, 1876. Judge Tenney edited the Mining Magazine in 1853, and the Queens of England (1852), completed Senator Benton's " Abridg- ments of the Debates of Congress," 1857-60. and is the autlior of: Military ami Naval History of the Rebellion of the United States (1855), and Gram- matical Analysis (1866). He died in Newark, N. J., Sept. 20, 1883.

TERHUNE, Albert Payson, author, was born in Newark, N.J., Dec. 21, 1872; son of the Rev, Edward Payson and Mary Virginia (Hawes) Terhune (q.v.). He was gniduaied from Colum- bia university, A.B., 1893; traveled on horse- back tlirough Syria, 1894, investigating leper settlements and living among the Be<louins of the desert, and in 1895 became a member of the editorial staff of the New York Evening World.