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biography
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H. M. Jennings merchant, was born in Venango
county, Pennsylvania. in 1839, a son of Morgan and Jane (Bradley) Jennings. The Bradleys came to Venango county early in 1816
and the Jennings family at the beginning of this century,—about 1804. Mr. Jennings was educated at the schools and followed
farming as a vocation until the age of twenty-six years. Learning the carpenter’s trade, he followed that line of business
for eight years. In 1870 he came to Titusville and was salesman and bookkeeper in the coal office in which he served four
years, and in 1885 he began in the mercantile business, which he still follows. He is a member of the I. O. O. F., Knights of
St. John and Malta and R. T. of T. He was married in 1866 to Miss Mary J. Guist, of Venango county, who died in 1874. He
again married, in 1881 Miss Rosa Sisney, and they have one child, Clifford, who is a student at the Titusville high
school.
Our county and its people: a historical and memorial
record of Crawford County, Pennsylvania by Samuel P. Bates, 1899, page 710.
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