Walter Jennings

Walter Jennings (September 14, 1858 - January 9, 1933) was an American industrialist who served as president of National Fuel Gas Company and the Jekyll Island Club. Early life Jennings was born on September 14, 1858, in San Francisco, California. He was the eldest son of Standard Oil co-founder Oliver Burr Jennings (1825–1893) and Esther Judson (née Goodsell) Jennings (1828–1908). His siblings were Annie Burr Jennings (a philanthropist), a philanthropist. Helen Goodsell Jennings (wife of Dr. Walter Belknap James), Emma Brewster Jennings (wife of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss Sr.), and Oliver Gould Jennings, who served in the Connecticut House of Representatives. His maternal aunt, Almira Geraldine Goodsell, was the wife of William A. Rockefeller, Jr. Among his first cousins were William Goodsell Rockefeller, Percy Avery Rockefeller, and Geraldine Rockefeller (wife of Marcellus Hartley Dodge Sr.). Through his sister Emma, he was an uncle of Hugh D. Auchincloss, whose third wife was Janet Lee Bouvier, mother of First Lady Jackie Kennedy. He was also a descendant of Aaron Burr, the former Vice President of the United States. Jennings attended Phillips Andover and graduated from Yale University in 1880 where he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon and Yale's Skull and Bones Society. After Yale, he attended Columbia Law School where he was a classmate of future president Theodore Roosevelt, graduating in 1882.