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captain jennings in the paper
1900 - "family" groceries at Jennings' Market.
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1916
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1920
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captain jennings in the news
1893:
june 16, 1898 - the captain 's "military company" will engage in a "great sham battle"!
june 20, 1898 -- from the nebraska state journal
1898 -- the nebraska state journal publishes a political protest, stridently defending the integrity of captain jennings and others
Not much context could be found. Apparently "the bond of the state treasurer" was looked into by a Pawnee County committee on which Captain Jennings served. The state treasurer made a snippy remark, and the Nebraska State Journal pounced on him. Note that the founder of the Nebraska State Journal was C. H. Gere, a member of a pioneer family that included John N. Gere, a Union Civil War veteran buried in Table Rock.
This delightful article yields the information that Captain Jennings is a man of "strong convictions and the most conscientious scruples" and it would be "utterly impossible" for him to do someone ill on purpose. There's more.
This delightful article yields the information that Captain Jennings is a man of "strong convictions and the most conscientious scruples" and it would be "utterly impossible" for him to do someone ill on purpose. There's more.
July 13, 1899 -- custer county republican (broken bow, nebraska)
The Captain was a "fine specimen of robust health and physical soundness" and was willing to fight for his country!
september 16, 1899 -- the captain speaks at a g.a.r. convention
february 26, 1900
december 16, 1948 -- a letter to the Captain's grandson published - the captain "just barely got stahted!"
In December 2015, I was looking for something else and ran across a 1948 story about Gregg McBride speaking at a sports banquet in Table Rock. I recognized the name McBride as the married name of one of the Captain's daughters. Setting the Argus aside, I learned that Gregg had been a well known sportswriter for the Omaha World Herald for many many years. I then followed bread crumbs in the Argus about the banquet that led to a wonderful added dimension to the story of the Captain, a score of year after his death.
The December 16, 1948 edition of the Table Rock Argus contained a letter written by Harmon Chambers. Chambers, who graduated in 1905, wrote about the Captain Jennings of his childhood. His hilarious story about diving for clams in the Nemaha adds another layer to the story
The December 16, 1948 edition of the Table Rock Argus contained a letter written by Harmon Chambers. Chambers, who graduated in 1905, wrote about the Captain Jennings of his childhood. His hilarious story about diving for clams in the Nemaha adds another layer to the story
the captain's family
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His mother's grave, in Halifax County, Virginia.
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Susan Hales Derrick, the Captain's half sister.