Walter Jennings (S&B 1880)
Yale University. Skull and Bones. Delta Kappa Epsilon.
Society of Colonial Wars, and St. John’s Episcopal Church, Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y.
and trustee of New York State Hospital for Consumptives.[4]
1930 to 1931 - Member Long Island committee of Gallatin Memorial Fund.[4]
Since 1929 - Trustee of Hopkins Grammar School*.[4]
Since 1927 - President of Jekyl Island Club.[4]
1925 - Member Walter Camp Memorial Committee.[4] (Note: Walter Chauncey Camp S&B 1880)
1920 to 1922 - Vice-President of New York Historical Society.[4]
WW1 - 1918 to 1919 - Chairman of New York County chapter of American Red Cross.[4]
Since 1916 - A governor of New York Hospital.[4]
1913 to 1929 - Director of Bank of Manhattan.[4]
1907 to 1908, Vice-President. 1908-1918, President of National Fuel Gas Company.[4]
Since 1896 - New York Trust Company .[4]
1893 to 1913 - Director of Alumni University Fund Association.[4]
1893 to 1896 - Trustee of Continental Trust Company.[4]
11 Nov 1891 - Married Jean Pollock, daughter of Edwin Bergh and Alice (Pollock) Brown. Children: Oliver Burr, ‘17; Jeannette, the wife of Henry C. Taylor, ‘17; and Constance, the wife of Albert H. Ely, ‘15.[4]
1890 to 1907 - Class agent for Class of 1880 of Alumni University Fund.[4]
1890 to 1894, Assistant, 1894 to 1903, Manager, Since 1903, Director, 1908 to 1911, Secretary in domestic trade department of Standard Oil Company of New Jersey.[4]
1882 to 1886 - Custom house clerk and buyer with Pratt Manufacturing Company of New York and general purchasing agent for National Transit Company of Oil City, Pa., 1886 to 88, both affiliates of Standard Oil Company.[4]
1882 - LL.B. Columbia. Admitted to New York Bar in June, 1882, and practiced law two months with firm of Jennings & Russell in New York City.[4]
1880 - Graduated Yale, Skull and Bones Patriarch.[1]
Died 9 Jan 1933, from Coronary Thrombosis. Age 74.[4]
Note:
Brother … Oliver Gould Jennings (S&B1887)
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[4] - Yale Obituary - Page 42 / on the page 38
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