Richard G JENNINGS

  Noted events in his life were:

• Occupation. Richard Jennings died at Queenstown and is buried in Brady's Bend Cemetery near a forty-foot obelisk and the Jennings crypt. He attended private schools in Cornwall and was in the mining profession, being a general mine superintendent in Cornwall. He settled at Brady's Bend, Pennsylvania in 1841 and lived there until moving to Queenstown in 1868 where he established a large home (that no longer exists), financed by many of his successful oil ventures. The Jennings family, which had mostly moved away to Pittsburgh by the turn of the 20th century, used the estate as a summer home and retreat until they donated the house and surrounding property to the Methodist Church. The church wanted it to convert it for their use but when an inspector found a spring running through the basement beams, it all had to come down. However, the Jennings descendants in Pittsburgh still own a building next door which was the old hotel in the family operated and the surrounding farm and all the mineral rights. Richard Jennings was a Democrat and was elected burgess of Queenstown in 1880. Richard Jennings and his descendants fill an interesting chapter in the commercial development of western Pennsylvania and Pittsburgh, where they eventually owned the bank, silica works, mill, steel companies and dabbled in oil and other like ventures. There really wasn't any type of industry that the Jennings Brothers Trust Company or Colonial Trust Company didn't involve itself in. Richard and Katherine Evans had ten children.
Sons:
Edward Henry Jennings (1852-). E. H. Jennings became an oil producer in Pittsburgh where he established himself in an elegant Italianate residence on Fifth and Amborson Avenue (with four live-in domestic servants) and was for many years president of the Colonial Trust Company and the E. H. Jennings Brothers Trust Company
Richard Morley Jennings (1861-1907) was for many years an oil producer at Bradford, Pennsylvania, before moving to Pittsburgh where the family lived in an elegant home on Lilac Avenue with three servants.
John Gundry Jennings (1864-1912) was an oil producer at Butler, Pennsylvania for a number of years.
Evan D Jennings (1877) attended private schools in Pittsburgh and later became president of the E. H. Jennings Brothers Company and vice-president of the Pittsburgh Silica Sand Company. Left ten thousand dollars to be set up in business
Richard Jennings's will notes: I request my sons to act together for the best interests of all and my younger sons to pay due heed to the riper judgement and experience of their elder brother

Richard married Annie EVANS in Nov 1849 in Queenstown PA USA. (Annie EVANS died in Aug 1850 in PA USA.)

Richard next married Katherine EVANS in Apr 1851 in Queenstown PA USA. (Katherine EVANS was born on 19 May 1831 in Merthyr Tydfil GLA and died on 15 May 1907 in Queenstown PA USA.)