H. M. Jennings

biography

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.