Biography of William Jennings, pages 805 / 806.  History of De Kalb County, 
Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

William Jennings, section 21, Troy Township, was born in Carroll County, 
Ohio, Oct. 14, 1835, a son of Peter and Catherine (Rainberger) Jennings, of 
this township. He came with his parents to De Kalb County in 1843, and was 
here reared and educated.  He early was obliged to assist his father in the 
woods, doing what he could as a child, and later helping to fell the trees, 
and cultivate the soil.  In his youth he worked at the carpenter’s trade, 
serving an apprenticeship of two years, and has since worked at it at 
intervals in connection with farming.  In 1860 he settled on the farm where 
he now lives, where he owns sixty acres of choice land, with a good 
residence and farm buildings.  He also owns ten acres on section 30, this 
township.  He is engaged in general farming and stock-raising, having a fine 
grade of Spanish Merino sheep.  In 1884 he got 102 pounds of washed wool 
from ten of his fleeces.  Mr. Jennings was married May, 4, 1859, to Anna, 
daughter of David McCord, who moved from Ohio to Steuben County, Ind., in 
1840, where he died.  Her mother afterward married Amos Stearns, and in 
1844 they moved to De Kalb County.  Mr. and Mrs. Jennings have had a 
family of six children, five of whom are living---Hiram S., Olive L., 
Eldora, Jesse M., and Jacob W.

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