Oliver Jennings (other)
Oliver Jennings may refer to: *Oliver Burr Jennings (1825–1893), Standard Oil businessman *Oliver Gould Jennings (1865–1936), son of the Standard Oil businessman See also *Oliver Gould Jennings House The Oliver Gould Jennings House is a mansion located at 7 East 72nd Street on the Upper East Side of New York City. It was originally constructed in 1898 for Oliver Gould Jennings in the French Beaux-Arts style. It was used as a temporary locatio ...

Oliver Burr Jennings
Oliver Burr Jennings (June 3, 1825 – February 12, 1893) was an American businessman and one of the original stockholders in Standard Oil. Early life Jennings was born in 1825 in Fairfield, Connecticut, to Abraham Gould Jennings and Anna (née Burr) Jennings. His brother was Frederick B. Jennings. At a young age he came to New York to learn the dry goods business. Through his great-grandfather, Peter Burr, he was distantly related to U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr. Career In 1849, he headed West to seek his fortune in the California Gold Rush. He set up a general mercantile store in San Francisco with Benjamin Brewster and amassed a considerable fortune by outfitting prospecting camps along the coast and around Sacramento. Standard Oil In 1862, he returned to New York with the intention of retiring from all business activities. Due to his close relationship with his wife's brother-in-law, William Avery Rockefeller, Jr., he became interested in the affairs of the Standard Oi ...
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Oliver Gould Jennings
Oliver Gould Jennings (April 27, 1865 – October 13, 1936) was a financier and an heir to a fortune from Standard Oil who served in the Connecticut House of Representatives. Early life Jennings was born on April 27, 1865 in New York City. He was the youngest son of Oliver Burr Jennings (1825–1893) and Esther Judson (née Goodsell) Jennings (1828–1908). His older siblings were Annie Burr Jennings (a philanthropist), a philanthropist. Walter Jennings, Helen Goodsell Jennings (wife of Dr. Walter Belknap James), and Emma Brewster Jennings (wife of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss Sr.). His maternal aunt, Almira Geraldine Goodsell, was the wife of Standard Oil co-founder William A. Rockefeller, Jr. Through his sister Emma, he was the uncle of Hugh D. Auchincloss, whose third wife was Janet Lee Bouvier, mother of First Lady Jackie Kennedy. Jennings attended Phillips Andover, graduated from Yale University, was an 1887 initiate into Yale's Skull and Bones Society, and later graduated f ...
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