P 6 Frank Washburn Jennings Collection

              P 6
Frank Washburn Jennings Photograph Collection
Page 1
OHIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Manuscripts/ Audiovisual Collections
P 6
Frank Washburn Jennings Photograph Collection
Ca. 1885- 1893
OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION
Number:
P 6
Title:
Frank Washburn Jennings Photograph Collection
Creator:
Frank Washburn Jennings
Dates:
Ca. 1885- 1893
Media:
Cyanotype photographs
Quantity:
0.17 cubic feet
Location:
Ohio Historical Center
HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE COLLECTION
Frank Washburn Jennings was born in Logan, Ohio on March 11, 1868. His parents were William Henry Jennings and Caroline Frances ( Allen) Jennings. The Jennings family moved to Columbus, Ohio when Frank was five years old. He graduated from Central High School in 1886 and attended Ohio State University for two years. He left the University to take a position under his father with the Hocking Valley Railroad Company.
He worked as a rodman and transitman for the Hocking Valley, Kanawha and Michigan, and Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad companies from January 1885 to January 1893. After a short period with the Toledo and Ohio Central Railroad Company as resident engineer, and with the Kanawha and Michigan Railway Company as assistant chief engineer of preliminary and location surveys. He occupied this position from October 1894 to November 1897 after which he served four years as assistant chief engineer for the Columbus Northwestern and the Detroit and Toledo Shore Line Railway companies. From 1901to 1903 he was assistant chief engineer of the West Virginia and Kentucky Railroad Company.