Keep Tenney Here at Home

Keep Tenney Here at Home

NEWBURYPORT – Daniel Tenney loved his native Newburyport. Although he lived and worked as a jeweler in New York City for much of his life, he never forgot where he came from. Born in 1800, Tenny, who lived to age 81, donated a portion of his wealth in 1863 to buy the Tracy House, which today is the reading room of the Newburyport Public Library. Fourteen years later he paid for the installation of bronze lamp posts along Pleasant Street in front…