The United States biographical dictionary and portrait gallery of eminent and self-made men; Wisconsin volume . as the father of Smith, who married Barbara Rowe, anddied at Litchfield, Connecticut, in the thirty-fifthyear of his age. He was the father of Henry Smith,who was the father of Winfield Smith. DANIEL K. TENNEY, CHICAGO. DANIEL KENT TENNEYwas born at Platts-burg. New York, December 31, 1834. He isthe tenth child of Daniel Tenney (a native of NewHampshire), and of his wife, Sylvia Kent (a nativeof Vermont, having ttie ancestry of ChancellorKent). Mr. Tenney spent his boyhood
The United States biographical dictionary and portrait gallery of eminent and self-made men; Wisconsin volume . as the father of Smith, who married Barbara Rowe, anddied at Litchfield, Connecticut, in the thirty-fifthyear of his age. He was the father of Henry Smith,who was the father of Winfield Smith. DANIEL K. TENNEY, CHICAGO. DANIEL KENT TENNEYwas born at Platts-burg. New York, December 31, 1834. He isthe tenth child of Daniel Tenney (a native of NewHampshire), and of his wife, Sylvia Kent (a nativeof Vermont, having ttie ancestry of ChancellorKent). Mr. Tenney spent his boyhood in the woods ofnorthern Ohio, whither his parents removed with thefamily wiien he was about one year old, and where his father recently died at the age of mother, at a still more advanced age, now re-sides in Kansas with a daughter. Two brothersand two sisters of the ten now survive-. Reared in poverty, at the age of eight he was ap-prenticed to a printer and served four years out ofthe following seven, attending common schools theremaining three. At the age of fifteen he removed to Madison,. /8^, Ac^ %A^^.ui^ THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY. 607 Wisconsin, and engaged as a journeyman printer inthe office of the Wisconsin Argus, working, how-ever, only during vacations and Saturdays, but ofteneighteen hours a day, this being a necessity for rais-ing funds to pay his way while attending the Uni-versity of Wisconsin, then in its infancy. While inthis institution he was one of the founders of theAthenKum Society, and its early records bear testi-mony to his efficient work in its behalf. He at-tended the university about four years, boardinghimself most of the time, being poorly fed andpoorly clad ; but his condition in this respect wasscarcely in that day, as most of thestudents were in indigent circumstances and notashamed of their poverty. In scholarship he wassecond to none. He learned with the readiness ofintuition. In the latter part of t
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