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Jennings, Thomas Reed

physician, educator, state senator, was born in 1805 in Steubenville, Ohio. In 1838 he opened dissecting-rooms in Nashville, and was the first teacher of anatomy in the state. He served in the state senate, declined a nomination to congress, in 1854 became professor of the institutes of medicine and of clinical medicine in the university of Nashville, and in 1856 filled the chair of anatomy. He died July 7, 1874, in Narragansett, R. I.

JENNINGS, WILLIAM SHERMAN, lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born March 24, 1863, near Salem, Ill. His father's sister is the mother of William Jennings Bryan, the democratic candidate for president of the United States in 1896. He received the rudiments of his education in the county schools; attended the Southern Illinois Normal university of Carbondale, and graduated from the Union college of Law of Chicago, Ill. He is one of the foremost lawyers of the south at Brooksville, Fla. He has been circuit court commissioner; county judge; alderman and president of the council of his adopted city. In 1893-95 he served with distinction as a member of the Florida state legislature, and was speaker of the house of representatives in the session of 1895. In 1896 he was a presidential elector, and in 1897 the electoral messenger from Florida.