Introduction

Biography

John was the son of John Ten­ney and Sa­lly L. Chap­man, and hus­band of Al­ice Pot­ter (mar­ried March 27, 1888).

Born just af­ter the pre­si­den­tial cam­paign of Tip­pe­ca­noe and Ty­ler, too, he was named af­ter Am­eri­can pre­si­dent Wil­liam Hen­ry Har­rison.

Tenney was a dea­con in the Con­gre­ga­tion­al Church in Line­brook, Mas­sa­chu­setts.

He ed­it­ed ov­er 30 books, and con­trib­ut­ed to hun­dreds more.

Works

• American Male Choir
• Gold­en Sun­beams, with Da­ni­el Hodg­es (Bos­ton, Mas­sa­chu­setts: Lee & Shep­ard, 1873)
• The An­them Of­fer­ing, with Da­ni­el Hodg­es & G. W. Fos­ter (New York and Bos­ton, Mas­sa­chu­setts: Charles T. Dill­ing­ham and Lee & Shep­ard, 1875)
• Songs of Joy (Bos­ton, Mas­sa­chu­setts: Lee & Shep­ard, 1875)
• The Sing­ing School Ban­ner, with A. N. John­son (New York: S. T. Gor­don & Son, 1875
• Songs of Faith, with Eli­sha Hoff­man (Cleve­land, Ohio: S. Brain­ard’s Sons, 1876)
• Spiritual Songs, with Eli­sha Hoff­man (Cleve­land, Ohio: Sam­uel Bar­ker, 1878)
• Spiritual Songs, Nos. 1 and 2
• Shining Light, with Al­dine Kief­fer (Day­ton, Vir­gin­ia: Rue­bush-Kief­fer, 1879)
• Temperance Jew­els, with Eli­sha A. Hoff­man (Bos­ton, Mas­sa­chu­setts: Ol­iv­er Dit­son, 1879)
• Sharon’s Dewy Rose, with Al­dine Kief­fer (Day­ton, Vir­gin­ia: Rue­bush-Kief­fer, 1880)
• Gems of Gos­pel Song, with Eli­sha Hoff­man & Ralph Hud­son (Al­li­ance, Ohio: R. E. Hud­son, 1881)
• The Crown of Praise, with Al­dine Kief­fer (Bos­ton, Mas­sa­chu­setts: Ol­iv­er Dit­son, 1881)
• The Bea­con Light, with Eli­sha Hoff­man (Bos­ton, Mas­sa­chu­setts: Ol­iv­er Dit­son, 1881)
• Sweet Fields of Ed­en, with Al­dine Kief­fer & Will­iam B. Blake (Day­ton, Vir­gin­ia: Rue­bush-Kief­fer, 1882)
• The Am­eri­can An­them Book, with A. N. John­son & Alon­zo Ab­bey (1883?)
• Songs of Promise, with Eli­sha Hoff­man (Bos­ton, Mas­sa­chu­setts: Ol­iv­er Dit­son, 1886)
• Bells of Vic­to­ry, with Eli­sha Hoff­man (Bos­ton, Mas­sa­chu­setts: Oli­ve­r Dit­son, 1888)
• Words of Life, with Still­man Mar­tin (Phi­la­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia: John J. Hood, 1889)
• Sparkling and Bright, with Charles Pri­or (Chi­ca­go, Il­li­nois: S. Brain­ard’s Sons, 1890)
• Pentecostal Hymns, with Hen­ry Date, Eli­sha Hoff­man & Will­iam Og­den (Chi­ca­go, Il­li­nois: Hope Pub­lish­ing, 1894)