I transcribed this biographical sketch and am posting it in case it helps
someone.
From my research, Hauman is Hannon & Whitman is Wightman in some
family
histories and records. Demerious is sometimes Dimmis or Demaris. Whitman
Tennant's wife is believed to be Demerious Babbitt (sometimes seen as
Bobbitt).
Brenda Reeg Robison
Indianapolis, IN
Pages 548-550, Biographical and Historical Record of Kosciusko County,
Indiana (Chicago: Lewis Publishing, 1887), paragraphing added for readability:
DR. LEWIS H. TENNANT, physician and farmer, section 10, Monroe Township, came
to Kosciusko County with his father in 1854, and settled on the farm where he
now lives.
His father, Lewis B. Tennant, was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in the
spring of 1800, and when eighteen years of age went to New York State and
engaged in the new method of distilling liquors. He subsequently went to
many places in the South, where he followed the same business. He was
married in 1824 to Miss Elizabeth Dewitt, who was a native of New Jersey and
about five years his junior. She was reared at her birthplace, but was
married at Hamilton, Canada (ed-Wentworth County, Ontario), where her parents
settled a few years before. She died in 1845, in Lake County, Indiana.
In 1854 Lewis H. and his father came from Upper Sandusky, Ohio, to Kosciusko
County, and settled at Warsaw, and moved from there the same year to Monroe
Township, and settled on section 10, where about three acres had been cleared
and a log house built. Here in the wilderness they set up a still for
distilling the medical properties of shrubs, barks, roots and berries, and
the father resumed the practice of medicine, using the eclectic system.
His father was twice married, and had by his first wife ten children, born as
follows -- Louvicy, in 1825; Earlyam (ed-Early Ann), in 1827; Rachel, in
1829; Eliza Jane, in 1831; Whitman, in 1833; Demerious, in 1835; Lewis H., in
1837; Johnnie, in 1840; James D., in 1842; and Philip, in 1844. Seven were
born in Canada, and the three youngest in Lake County, Indiana.
James D. enlisted August 10, 1862 in Company I, Tenth Minnesota Regiment, and
died at Le Sueur, Minnesota, April 23, 1863. Lewis H. enlisted August 11,
1862, at Warsaw, in Company C, Fourth Indiana Cavalry, commanded by Captain
H. P. Leslie, and was discharged in July, 1865. His company was detached for
headquarters body-guard duty, and served as body-guard for Generals Q. A.
Gilmore, A. J. Smith and Granger. In 1863 our subject was appointed
detective, with his headquarters at Indianapolis and La Fayette, and while in
the detective service he read and practiced medicine with Dr. P. Jamerson, of
Indianapolis. When discharged from the United States service he returned to
the farm.
His father died the 10th of the following September, and he took up the forty
acres he left, to which he has added until he now owns 114 acres. In 1876 he
built a new house, at a cost of $1,100, and in 1885 built a barn, costing
$1,000. For the past twenty years he has carried on farming in connection
with his practice, confining his practice mostly to chronic cases, and making
a specialty of treating diseases of the eye.
He was married at Logansport, Indiana, while in the service of the United
States, in August, 1864, to Miss Elizabeth Barron, daughter of John and
Elizabeth (Hauman) Barron. Dr. and Mrs. Tennant have had eleven children --
John D., born June 19, 1865; Charlie B. (ed-Charles P.), born December 11,
1867; Demerious M., November 8, 1869; Lewis W., August 2, 1871; Walter M.,
September 12, 1873; Frank A., September 30, 1875; Frederick T., March 2,
1878; Elroy E., born June 2, 1880, died May 22, 1885; Alma L., born September
12, 1882; James E., April 17, 1884; Otis B., April 22, 1886.
Mrs. Tennant's father, John Barron, was born in Germany April 9, 1809, and
immigrated to America when a young man, landing in Philadelphia. He settled
in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, where he purchased a farm, although prior to
coming to America he learned the weaver's trade. He was married in Dauphin
County, in 1830, to Miss Elizabeth Hauman, a native of that county, born July
24, 1813. They had a family of seven children--Susanna, born December 8,
1832; John C., born December 28, 1834, died February 18, 1873; Louisa, born
October 26, 1837, died November 23, 1874; Jacob M., born June 17, 1840;
Elizabeth, born June 16, 1844; Sarah, born July 27, 1847; Catherine, born
September 17, 1851.
In 1855 Mr. and Mrs. Barron sold their farm in Dauphin and moved to Cass
County, Indiana, near Logansport, and in 1856 bought the farm where he died
June 27, 1883. Mrs. Barron still lives on the homestead with her daughter
Sarah.
The paternal grandparents of Mrs. Tennant died in Germany, and her material
grandparents in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.
Dr. Tennan's paternal grandparents, Whitman and Demerious Tennant, were
natives of Scotland, and died in Connecticut, aged nearly one hundred years.
His maternal grandfather, John Dewitt, died in Cass County, Michigan, and his
grandmother in Canada.
In politics Dr. Tennant is a Republican.