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Oliver Burr Jennings (June 3, 1825 — February 12, 1893) was an American businessman and one of the original stockholders in Standard Oil. ==Early life and family== Jennings was born in 1825 in Fairfield, Connecticut to Abraham Gold Jennings and Anna Burr. At a young age he came to New York to learn the dry goods business. In 1849 he headed West to seek his fortune in the California Gold Rush. He set up a general mercantile store in San Francisco with Benjamin Brewster and amassed a considerable fortune by outfitting prospecting camps along the coast and around Sacramento. On December 13, 1854, he married Esther Judson Goodsell (1828–1908) in Fairfield. Her sister Almira Geraldine Goodsell (1844–1920) was the wife of Standard Oil co-founder William Avery Rockefeller, Jr. (1841–1922). They had five children:〔 *Annie Burr Jennings *Walter Jennings (director of Standard Oil Company of New Jersey; president of the Jekyll Island Club, 1927–1933) *Helen Goodsell Jennings (married Dr. Walter James, president of the Jekyll Island Club, 1919–1927) *Emma Brewster Jennings (married Hugh Dudley Auchincloss, Sr.; mother of stockbroker Hugh Dudley Auchincloss, Jr.) *Oliver Gould Jennings (married Mary Dows Brewster, daughter of Benjamin Brewster and Elmina Hersey Dows; father of businessman Benjamin Brewster Jennings) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Oliver Burr Jennings」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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