Ohio Biographies



Andrew Jackson Jennings


Andrew Jackson Jennings, farmer, P. O. Ravenna, was born January 15, 1827, in Ravenna, this county. October 11, 1849, he was married to Miss Sophia P. Trowbridge, born in Ontario County, N. Y., March 14, 1825. Her parents, Daniel and Sallie (Blakely) Trowbridge, former a native of Franklin County, Mass., came to Ravenna Township, this county, in October, 1833. They moved to Hudson, Summit Co., Ohio, in 1852, where Mr. Trowbridge died in February, 1881, and where his widow still resides. After his father's death our subject purchased the heirs' interest in the estate, and now owns the homestead. He is proprietor hereof a farm of 100 acres of well-improved land. He takes a deep interest in progressive and scientific farming, and has taken a leading part in the Portage County Agricultural Society.

 

From History of Portage County, Ohio, Warner, Beers & Co., Chicago, 1885

 


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