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CLARENCE B. TENNYSON, D. D. S.
Activity and energy in business
affairs will do more to advance a man in his financial standing than the
influence of friends or the assistance that comes through inheritance. In America the man is held in highest esteem
who has builded his success upon the foundation of
his own energy, capable management and keen discrimination. Such a one is Clarence B. Tennyson, the
popular and successful dental surgeon of Lodi, California. He was born at Three Rivers, Michigan, April
8, 1876, a son of Daniel D. and Lilly (Benham)
Tennyson, natives of England and Michigan, respectively. Mr. and Mrs. Tennyson are the parents of
three children, Dr. H. A. Tennyson, Clarence B. of this sketch, and J. B., in
the postal service in San Jose. The
father is a Government land attorney in San Jose, where he located when our
subject was a young lad.
Clarence B. began his education in
the grammar school of San Jose and after his graduation from the San Jose High
School he entered the Dental Department of the University of California,
remaining a student there for two years.
He then entered the office of Thomas Morfield,
D. D. S., in San Francisco, where he was employed for one year, and then
finished his dental studies at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at San
Francisco, from whence he graduated with the degree of D. D. S. with the class
of 1899. He remained in San Francisco
for a year engaged in the practice of his profession, then in 1900 removed to
Lodi where he has steadily built up a fine practice; he has well-appointed
offices in the Hale Building on West Pine Street, and he employs the best
scientific methods known to dental surgery.
On December 11, 1897, in San
Francisco, Dr. Tennyson was married to Miss Jeannette Hamilton, born in San
Jose, California, a daughter of W. C. Hamilton, an early settler of San Jose,
California, who was born in the North of Ireland, while the mother was a native
of Ohio. Dr. and Mrs. Tennyson are the
parents of two children: Vivian Barbara
and Alfred H. and they reside at 303 North School Street, Lodi. In politics Dr. Tennyson is a Republican and
fraternally is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias
and with his family is a member of the Congregational Church of Lodi.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1546. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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