Biography of Hon James B. Tennant
Hon. James B. Tennant, one of the most prominent business men of Epsom and an ex-member of the New Hampshire Senate, was born in Deerfield, N.H., May 26, 1847, son of Arthur and Ruth O. (Sanborn) Tennant. He comes of English stock. His great-grandfather was an early settler in Portsmouth, N.H. Thomas Tennant, the grandfather, who was born in Haverhill, N.H., April 10, 1771, owned and cultivated farms in Wentworth and Hampton, N.H., during the active period of his life. His last days were passed in Wentworth, and he was about eighty years old when he died. He married Sarah … Read more