TENNANT, Flint - Putnam

Flint Edward Tennant was born at Greencastle, Indiana Nov 19, 1849, passed away April 6, 1913 at his home in Topeka, Kans and was laid to rest in Olive Branch Cemetery, White Cloud, Kansas.  Mr. Tennant was the son of John Grigg Tennant and Phoebe Hubble Tennant.  The father was born in Madison County, Kentucky; the mother, whose maiden name was Flint, was born in Hartford, Conn.  She was the granddaughter of Major Buel of Revolutionary fame and a relative of Austin Flint, the celebrated physician of Philadelphia, Penn.  Mr. Tennant was the youngest of four children whom with the parents have all passed away with the exception of one sister, Mrs. Jno. D. Reed, of Indianapolis, Ind.  Mr. Tennant was twice married to the first union, a daughter was born now Mrs. Frank Gaines of Indianapolis, Ind.  On Feb 28, 1889 he married Mrs. Emma J. Taylor of White Cloud K’s.  Mr. Tennant grew to manhood at Greencastle, Ind was educated there in the public schools and at DePaus (sic – DePauw) University.  In 1867 he learned the printer’s trade in the office of the Greencastle Banner.  He owned and published papers at Mooresville, Cloverdale and Bloomington, Ind.  In 1885, he had a government appointment to the Government Printing Office at Washington, DC.  In June, 1886 he went to Sherman County, Kans where he established the paper, afterwards called the Goodland News and owned by him until August 1896 when he bought the White Cloud Glove, which paper, he published about three years but sold and moved to Denver and finally located in Topeka, Kans where he established a job office.  Mr. Tennant was something of a newspaper broker, buying and selling papers all over Kansas, Oklahoma, and Colorado.  He was a member of the Scottish Rite Consistory of Topeka Amity Lodge K of P Topeka and the Masonic Blue Lodge of White Cloud.  To this home lodge, he was tenderly attached and it was always his desire that this lodge should, with their beautiful ceremony, attend him to his last resting place.