Percy Hall Jennings (S&B 1951)
Industry. Yale University. Skull and Bones. Psi Upsilon.
Board Member, International Paper Co., Great Bear Springs Co., trustee, Provident Loan Society, Charity Organization Society.
Treasurer, Trustee of Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church.
1946 to 1951 - General Supervisor, Vitaglass Corp.
WW2 - Associate Manager, War Finance Committee of New York, supervised War Bond activities, Nassau, Suffolk Counties, L.I., N.Y.
1926 to 1946 - organizer, president, VitaglassCorp., New York.
WW1, Captain, later Major, Signal Corps, Air Force, cited formeritorious service by General Pershing, Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor;
12 Jan 1907 - Married New York, N Y., Mary Elizabeth Auchincloss (Brearley School ‘01), daughter of John W.,1873S, and Joanna (Russell) Auchincloss. Children Dr. Percy Hall, Jr., ‘30 (M. D. Harvard ‘34); Joanna Russell (B. A. Vassar ‘31, Mrs. D. Rodney Hadden), Elizabeth Auchincloss (widow of Francis Adams Truslow, ‘28), Frederick Beach(B. A. Princeton ‘33), Laura Hall (Mrs. David Ingraham).Survived by wife, five children, nineteen grandchildren,sister, and brother
1904, Assistant Treasurer, 1909, Vice-President, 1921, President, 1924 to 1925, Board Chairman - American Trading Co, New York City.
1904 - Graduated Yale, Skull and Bones Patriarch.[1]
Died 2 Oct 1951, from Not Known. Age 69
Note:
Father, Frederic Beach Jennings was a prominent business executive and lawyer in New York City, and his affiliations included the Continental Trust Company, International Trust Company, and Trust Company of America. He was also the General Counsel for the Erie Railroad and other railroads, banks and corporations. His wife Laura Hall Park was the daughter of prominent attorney and businessman Trenor Park and the granddaughter of Vermont Hiland Hall. Jennings and his wife donated the site of their Vermont home to become the location of Bennington College.
[3] - Skull and Bones Membership List by David Luhrssen
[4] - S&B Obituaries, Page 63.
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