Hennen Jennings papers, 1874-1930.

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Hennen Jennings papers, 1874-1930.

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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.

15 cubic ft. (33 boxes + oversize)

Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7122542

Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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Harvard University

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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...

Jennings, Hennen, 1854-1920

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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 o...

Conrey Placer Mining Company

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Research Corporation

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A nonprofit foundation, now of Tucson, Arizona, the Research Corporation was incorporated in New York in 1912. Its purpose is to advance academic science and technology. It supports basic research in the natural and physical sciences and encourages the practical application of new discoveries. From the description of Records, 1919-1949. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79391516 Foundation headquarters moved from New York to Tucson, Arizona in 1982. From the descrip...