Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


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William Wesley Jennings




Husband William Wesley Jennings 1

           Born: 22 Jul 1838 - Harrisburg, Dauphin Co, PA 1
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         Father: William Jennings (1807-1875) 2 3
         Mother: Elmina Elizabeth Boas (      -      ) 2 3





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General Notes: Husband - William Wesley Jennings


He attended the public schools of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, until his fifteenth year, when he commenced to learn the trade of an iron-moulder in his father's foundry. From 1860 to 1875 he was engaged in the iron business. During the war of the Rebellion he raised the One Hundred and Twenty-seventh Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, a nine months' regiment, and was in the battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville. Shortly after being mustered out of service the Gettysburg campaign opened, and Col. Jennings was placed in command of the Twenty-sixth Regiment Pennsylvania Militia. From 1864 to 1866, Col. Jennings served as sheriff of the county of Dauphin County, and again from 1876 to 1878. Upon the death of Mr. Calder, president of the First National Bank of Harrisburg, in 1880, he was elected to that position, and was also the president of the Commonwealth Guarantee Trust and Safe-Deposit Company.

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Sources


1 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Dauphin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 580.

2 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Dauphin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 466, 580.

3 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 207.


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