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Hugh W. Tener (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, atty, bookkeeper and commissioner of deeds)

b. 1825

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, attorney, bookkeeper, and commissioner of deeds. Native of Ireland. Son of Robert Tener. Member of the Independent Taylor Men of Philadelphia, organized to support presidential candidate Zachary Taylor, in 1848. Attorney in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1850. Bookkeeper in Philadelphia in 1860. Partner, with Robert C. Davis, of Tener & Davis law and collection office in Philadelphia from c1861. Commissioner of Deeds for the Commonwealth of Kentucky in Pennsylvania in 1861 and 1862. Vice president of the 5th Ward of the Philadelphia Democratic Party in 1862. Commissioner of Deeds for the Commonwealth of Kentucky in Pennsylvania in 1865.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia County, Philadelphia, New Market Ward, p. 389A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia County, Philadelphia, p. 68.

"Address to the People of Pennsylvania," Public Ledger (Philadelphia, PA), October 20, 1848, p. 2.

"Local Intelligence," The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA), August 25, 1862, p. 8.

McElroy's Philadelphia City Directory for 1861 ed. A. McElroy (Philadelphia: C. Sherman & Son, 1861), 979.

McElroy's Philadelphia City Directory for 1862 ed. A. McElroy (Philadelphia: C. Sherman & Son, 1862), 660.

McElroy's Philadelphia City Directory for 1863 ed. A. McElroy (Philadelphia: C. Sherman & Son, 1863), 746.

McElroy's Philadelphia City Directory for 1864 ed. A. McElroy (Philadelphia: C. Sherman & Son, 1864), 736.

McElroy's Philadelphia City Directory for 1865 ed. A. McElroy (Philadelphia: C. Sherman & Son, 1865), 668.

KYR-0001-017-0160.

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Tener, Hugh W.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32197856 (November 12, 2026).

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