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IRWIN G. JENNINGS,
who is filling the position of probate judge in Muskingum county,
was born in Zanesville, in 1875, a son of Dr. E. A. and Margaret
C. (Chapman) Jennings. The father was born in Noble
county, Ohio, and died in 1887, at the age of thirty-six years.
He held membership in the Methodist Episcopal church. His
wife, whose birth occurred in Zanesville, in 1853, is now living in
this city. She is a daughter of Charles L. Chapman a
cabinet-maker, and by her marriage she became the mother of two sons
but the brother, Charles C., is now deceased.
Judge Jennings was a student in the public and
high schools of Zanesville, being graduated with the class of 1893.
In the fall of the same year he entered upon a classical course in
Oberlin College and after a year spent in that institution he
continued his studies in Marietta College, where he completed a
classical course. Having determined to enter upon the practice
of law as a life work, he then began reading in the office and under
the direction of Frank H. Southard, an attorney of
Zanesville, and subsequently matriculated in the State University at
Columbus, in 1898, being graduated the following year with the
degree of Bachelor of Laws. In the fall of 1899 he was
admitted to the bar at Columbus and entered at once upon the
practice of his profession in Zanesville, continuing an active
member of the legal fraternity here until elected to the office of
probate judge.
On the 23d of November, 1994, Judge Jennings was
married to Miss Charlotte C. Lynn, a daughter of John T.
and Cornelia (Rector) Lynn, and a native of Zanesville, born in
1880. Mr. Jennings is identified with the Masonic
fraternity and gives his political allegiance to the republican
party. He was elected to the office of probate judge in 1902
and is a member of the Muskingum County Bar Association. He is
yet a young man but has already attained a creditable position
as a representative of the Muskingum county bar and his friends
predict for him still greater honors and success.
Source: Past and Present of the City of Zanesville, and
Muskingum Co., Ohio - Published Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing
Co. - 1905 - Page 261 |
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