Born just af­ter the pre­si­den­tial cam­paign of “Tip­pe­ca­noe and Ty­ler, too,” Ten­ney was named af­ter Amer­i­can pre­si­dent William Henry Har­ri­son. A dea­con in the Con­gre­ga­tion­al Church in Line­brook, Mass­a­chu­setts, he ed­it­ed or was as­so­ci­ate ed­it­or of over 30 books, and con­trib­ut­ed to hun­dreds more. His works in­clude:

• Amer­i­can Male Choir
• Bells of Victory (Bos­ton, Mass­a­chu­setts: Oliv­er Dit­son & Co., 1888) (with E. A. Hoff­man)
• Gems of Gospel Song
• Golden Sunbeams
• Sharon’s Dewy Rose
• Songs of Faith
• Shining Light
• Songs of Joy
• Sparkling and Bright
• Spiritual Songs, Nos. 1 and 2
• Sweet Fields of Eden
• The Beacon Light
• The Singing School Banner
• Temperance Jewels
• The Anthem Offering
• The Amer­i­can Anthem Book
• The Crown of Praise

Sources

Music

1. Beyond the Swelling Flood
2. Come to Jesus
3. Ever Will I Pray
4. Hallowed Hour of Pray­er
5. Jesus Is Passing This Way
6. My Anchor Is Holding
7. Nothing Between
8. Onward Christ­ian Sol­diers
9. We’ll Never Say Goodbye
10. Where Will You Spend Eternity?