Tenny, Grace Webb, 1883-1910

Grace Esselstyn Webb Tenny, Mount Holyoke graduate and missionary in Japan, was born in Rochester, New York on February 16, 1883 to Henry and Ella Thomas Webb. She graduated from the Rochester High School in 1900 and enrolled in Mount Holyoke College in 1904, receiving a B.A. in 1904. On May 11, 1905 she married the Reverend Charles B. Tenny. The Tennys went to Japan in October of that year, where they served as missionaries stationed in Kobe, Japan. They had one daughter, Ruth Hana Tenny, who graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1929. Grace Webb Tenny died on September 27, 1910 in Yokohama, Japan.

From the guide to the Grace Webb Tenny Papers MS 0612., 1900-1910, (Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections)