Col. James S. Jennings and Laura E. Weethee

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Husband Col. James S. Jennings ¹

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           Born: 22 Aug 1829 - Waynesburg, Greene Co, PA 1
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         Father: Squire Benjamin Jennings (1779-1861) 1 2
         Mother: Elizabeth Stockdale (      -      ) 2

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       Marriage: 1858 1

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Wife Laura E. Weethee ³

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Children

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1 M William C. Jennings ¹

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2 M Charles B. Jennings ¹

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3 F Mary L. Jennings ¹

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General Notes: Husband - Col. James S. Jennings

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He received his education in his native place at the public schools and Waynesburg College. He learned the printing business in the Waynesburg Messenger office, and was subsequently for many years co-editor and proprietor of that paper.
In 1863, while connected with the Messenger office, he was elected to, and served one term as treasurer of Greene County. During the Gubernatorial term of Governor Pollock, of Pennsylvania, he was honored by appointment of aid on the Governor's staff as Colonel, and the same honor conferred on him by Governor Packer. In 1867 he removed
to a farm in Athens County, Ohio, where he remained for about twelve years. He was there for a time engaged in the land and mineral business, with a view to develop the mineral resources of his neighborhood, and was, with this view, connected with the construction of the Ohio Central Railroad. But the panic of 1873 coming on, the enterprise that had been so promising failed to materialize in time, and his pecuniary interests, as well as those of all concerned, severely suffered. While in Ohio his Democratic friends nominated him as their candidate for the State Legislature, but being in a district hopelessly Republican, without success. He was urged by his Democratic friends in his Congressional District, and by the Democratic newspapers therein, to allow his name to be used as the Democratic candidate for Congress, but the Colonel persistently declined the nomination. His name was also prominent before the State Convention in Ohio as candidate for Governor at the time Bishop was nominated and elected. In the year 1879 he removed from Ohio to the State of Kansas to take a fresh start and recover from the money losses sustained in his Ohio mineral enterprises. But his love for his native county had such hold on him that he concluded to return to Waynesburg, and in January, 1883, he again took charge of the Messenger on a lease. On the election of Cleveland to the Presidency, in 1886, he was by him appointed postmaster of Waynesburg, which he held with his family around him as assistants, except the son, who is "growing up with the West."

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General Notes: Wife - Laura E. Weethee

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from Athens Co, PA

1 Samuel P. Bates, History of Greene County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Nelson, Rishforth & Co., 1888), Pg 675.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 393.

3 Samuel P. Bates, History of Greene County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Nelson, Rishforth & Co., 1888), Pg 676.