University of Wyoming
Hennen Jennings was a mining engineer. He graduated from Harvard in 1877 and worked in gold and quicksilver mines in California for the next ten years. In 1887 he went to Venezuela. Two years later he moved on to South Africa, where he was a consulting engineer for the Rand mines in the Transvaal district. He was credited with developing South African gold mining into a commercially viable industry. After returning to the United States in 1905, he consulted for the Conrey Placer Mining Company of Ruby, Montana, which was largely owned by Harvard. He also consulted for the U.S. Bureau of Mines. He was a founder and director of the Research Corporation, a stock company formed in New York to support scientific and technical advances.
The collection contains correspondence and reports reflecting Hennen Jennings's career as a mining engineer and consultant in the United States, Venezuela, and South Africa. Also included are diaries (1874, 1903-1904, 1911-1915), photographs of mining sites and equipment, financial records, legal papers, speeches, news clippings, and scrapbooks. In addition there are notebooks of Jennings's classwork while at Harvard; medals which he received honoring him for his work; and a minute book (1912-1916) of the board of directors of the Research Corporation.
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There are no known other archival collections created by Hennen Jennings at the date of processing.
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