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Charles W. Tenney

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State Representative
Republican
Farmer
Cerro Gordo
12
01/13/1868 - 01/09/1870
59

Born in New York, February 16, 1834 and 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. He was a member of the First Board of Supervisors. He was elected County Surveyor in 1863. He was a member of the Board of Trustees of the State Agricultural College 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 Iowa General Assembly. He has been married twice. His first wife was Mary A. La Due, to whom he was married Sept. 12, 1857. On May 5, 1875, he married Anna E. Hays, of Cincinnatus, N. Y. He was a member of the Free Methodist Church.