Professions Among Men Bearing the Jennings Name
William Henry Jennings, 1899
These are but a few reported in the book by WHJ 99.
Malcolm Jennings, 1861, Athens, Ohio, F.ditor and political writer.
Rev. Samuel Jennings
Dr. Jacob Jennings, Minute Man, in Revolutionary war
Jacob Jennings was a provincial member of Congress from Trenton, N.J., 1775.
Rev. Obadiah Jennings, New Jersey.
Samuel Jennings, first Governor of New Jersey.
Jonathan Jennings, born in New Jersey, 1784, was the son of Dr. Jacob Jennings. He was a lawyer and a man of convictions, elected to Congress three times. After Indiana was admitted to statehood in 1816, he was elected its first Governor.
Rev. Samuel Carnahan Jennings graduated from Princeton University in 1827. In 1829 he became Editor, Christian Herald.
Dr. Thomas Reed Jennings, Steubenville, Ohio, became Professor of Clinical History at the University of Nashville.
References in the Library of Congress, referred to elsewhere, cover the names of numerous men in the Professions and business bearing the name of Jennings.
NOTES
William Jennings Bryan, “THE SILVER TONGUED ORATOR FROM THE WEST”, was born in Salem, Illinois, and in Congress from Nebraska. There is a tradition about his appetite, his constant companion. He kept his first trouser pockets filled with bread for use in emergencies.
President Calvin Coolidge was in descent from an Abraham Jennings, Rev. Caleb E. Smith notes.
A Captain James Jennings served and died in the Revolutionary War. Many with the name of Jennings were listed in the New Jersey Army Register.