JENNINGS, Fritz Allen

JENNINGS, HOLLOWAY, ROOT

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 1/28/2014 at 13:13:33

Biography ~ Fritz Allen Jennings

"Biographical and Historical Record of
Ringgold and Decatur Counties, Iowa"
(Lewis Publishing Company (1887)), p. 653:

FITZ ALLEN JENNINGS resides on section 5, Eden Township. He settled here in February, 1869. No improvements had been made on the place when he purchased it. Mr. JENNINGS was born in Seneca County, New York, in 1817. His father, LEWIS JENNINGS, was a native of Connecticut, removing to New York when a young man, where he married LORUHAMA HOLLOWAY, a native of Delaware. He immigrated to Ohio in 1829, settling in Sandusky County, and came here with his son, where he died in 1872. His wife died in Ohio, in 1850. FITZ ALLEN JENNINGS was reared in Sandusky County, and married LUCINDA ROOT, a native of Ohio. In 1854 they immigrated to Clinton County, Iowa, thence to Boonesborough in 1860, and to Decatur County in 1869, as before stated. Mr. JENNINGS was reared a farmer, but learned the carpenter’s trade. Mr. and Mrs. JENNINGS have ten children, eight sons and two daughters. Mr. JENNINGS has been justice of the peace many years, serving as such in Ohio, in 1842. He was commissioned by Governor THOMAS CORWIN. He served in the same capacity in Clinton County, as is now serving his third term in Decatur County.

Transcription by Sara LeFleur, Decatur County Historical Society Museum, January of 2014