. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . ment, his brother, Theodore A. Tenney, fell at his side,fatally hurt by a shell from the enemys artillery. Returning to private life, he engaged in business pur-suits. On April 16, 1867, he was married to Miss FrancesD. Andrews, of Ohio. Later he removed to 1871 and 1872 he was connected with the work ofconstructing the Northern Pacific Railroad. Settling atGlyndon, in the Red River Valley, he founded there anagricultural colony of European and American he made his home, engaged on a large scal
. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . ment, his brother, Theodore A. Tenney, fell at his side,fatally hurt by a shell from the enemys artillery. Returning to private life, he engaged in business pur-suits. On April 16, 1867, he was married to Miss FrancesD. Andrews, of Ohio. Later he removed to 1871 and 1872 he was connected with the work ofconstructing the Northern Pacific Railroad. Settling atGlyndon, in the Red River Valley, he founded there anagricultural colony of European and American he made his home, engaged on a large scale ingrowing grain and handling the wheat crop of theNorthern belt. Naturally a leader of men, he took aprominent and influential part in every movement thatpromised a betterment of existing conditions. On February 10, 1880, Major Tenmy died of heart-failure, meeting death as courageously as he had so oftenfaced it on the field of battle. -4° OFFICERS OF THE ARMY AND NAVY (volunteer). BREVET MAJOR JAMES EDWARD CARPENTER, Brevet Major James Edward Carpenter (EighthPennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry) was born in KentCounty, Maryland, where his parents were temporarily,on March 6, 1S41, being the second son of Edward Car-penter, deceased, of Philadelphia, and great-grandson ofTin Carpenter, of Carpenters Landing, New Jersey,who served as captain in the Revolutionary army. Hisemigrating ancestor was Samuel Carpenter, the first treas-urer of Pennsylvania, the intimate friend of William Pennand trustee of his estate, and one of the most prominentof the first settlers of Pennsylvania. In the female lineMajor Carpenter is descended from Thomas Lloyd, of Dolobran, the first governor of Pennsylvania underPenn, and from Samuel Preston, who was mayor ofPhiladelphia in 171 I. The subject of this sketch waseducated in the best schools of Philadelphia, enteredthe volunteer army March 17, 1862, as a private in theEighth Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry, and was soonafter pr
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