Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1906-02-07

cumbers in the best manner for the, table.
he said: "Peel them, slice them, put them
in dish, sprinkle them with salt and
pepper, add vinegar, then give them to
your hogs"
As country doctor he was called out at
au seasons and at all hours OF night or
day, to attend the sick He well knew
what summer heat, drenching rain, snow
storm and frost meant for one called to
endure them. On one occasion it is said
daughter was lamenting because she could
not have the pleasure of sleigh ride. He
said to her: "Go out to the woodshed, put
your feet in tub of ice and water and |
will come and jingle the bells, and you
can imagine the pleasure of a sleigh ride"
The writer remembers when the good
doctor set and splinted his broken arm,
how the pain made him faint, but DIR.
Tenney went on with the work without
apparently the twinge of a muscle or a
change OF countenance. He has been dead
nearly sixty years, and yet his image is
before the writer as he narrates this ac-
count OF him.
His children, also gone, were:
l. Polly, born April 8, 1877; married
Capt. Daniel Clough.
2. Sophia, born May s, 1899; died Oct.
2, 1925.
3. John, born May 8, 1901; died Dec. IL,
1887.
4. Rebecca, born April 26, 1904; died
March II, 1910.
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Emma Hinckley; died April II, 1899.
s. Jane, born March Is, 1909; died Aug.
Is, 1884, aged seventy-fve years.
Z. Nabby, born May 10, 1911; died
March II, 1916.
S. julia Ann, born June 9, 1913; married
Aaron P. Emerson, of Orland.
8. David, born Sept. 3, 1915; died Sept.
II, 1925.
William, the fifth child, married Emma,
daughter OF Nehemiah and Edith Wood
Hinckley, Nov. s. 1898, by whom he had
three children:
/. William Paris, born Sept. II, 1884;
bachelor; resides in Boston.
2. John Pearl, born Sept. II, 1884; a
widower; resides in Portland.
3. Nehemiah Hinckley, born May 1888
died Feb. 1885.
William Tenney resided with his father
until his death, and there his children
were born. His widow and children re-
sided there some time after his death; she
later married Capt. Judah Chase. Jane
Tenney occupied the old house until her
a -.
widow OF the writer's half brother, Will
liam Walker, resided in the house of her
grandfather, DR.. Tenney, and with her
aunt, Jane, in the early sos: and there
the writer spent several weeks during her
occupancy OF part of the house.
After the death OF Jane Tennev it was
occupied py different parties, and finally
sold to Admiral Henderson, of the U. S,
NJ, who changed over the house and place,
or began it, but died and his widow com
pleted the work. Mrs. Henderson mad
an attractive place of it. 1t occupies a
commanding view, and is beautiful loca-
tion for a summer residence, the purpose
to which it is now put.
THE KITTRIDaE HOUSE
beneath the hill was the next house re-
membered by the writer in boyhood, al
though there stands another now between
it and the Henderson or Tenney place
This house was built in 1882 or 1893 by
Hosea Kittridge, who was then preceptor
OF Blue Hill academy. He was born
March 5, 1903; married Nancy, daughter
Of Rev. Jonathan Fisher, Nov. IS, 1880.
She was born Aug. 10, 1904. They had
two children born at Blue Hill; Ellen,
Jan. 30, 1882, and Tyler, Oct. 8, 1884. Mr..
Kittridge, after a number OF years service,
resigned as preceptor OF the academy, and
left town with his family for home in
the West.
The house and place were sold to John
Stevens, who on Nov. s, 1888, married Miss
Mary J.. Perkins, of Castine (born Feb. 10,
1911 and brought her a bride to this house
to reside, where both continued to re-
side until their death, and where their
children were born.
John Stevens was the son of Theodore
and Dorcas (Osgood) Stevens, born at Blue
Hill, June II, 1904, school teacher in
y
and business man. He was for forty-five
years clerk and treasurer of the trustees
OF Blue Hill academy, and under his man
agement the invested funds Of the acad-
envy more than doubled in amount. He
died June Z, 1890, aged eighty-six, and his
wife died Dec. 10, 1878. They had six chill
dren, four sons and two daughters, viz;
/. Edgar, born April II, 1910; sea cap
tain.
2. Frank, born Jan. 81, 1912; sea cap
tain out of New York.
8. Samuel, born Aug. s, 1913; died at
Chatham, N. j., May q, 1902.
4. Sarah Eliza, born April IS, 1s45; died
July z, 1886.
8. John Perkins, born Dec. "a, 1850; re-
sides in Boston.
8. Miriam Perkins, born Nov. Is, 1851;
died June 20, 1895.
The house and place remains in the fam