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HARRY BURT JENNINGS.

   The gentleman whose name opens this biography, although young in years, has
attained considerable prominence in Carbon county, Wyoming, where he is now
serving as county clerk, having been elected in 1901 on the Republican ticket.
He was born in 1872 at Rising Sun, Polk county, Iowa, and is a son of James B.
and Mary L. (Raybuck) Jennings. James R. Jennings was born in Green county, Pa.,
in 1840, and served an apprenticeship at blacksmithing, and worked at that trade
until the breaking out of the Civil War, when he enlisted in the Fifth
Pennsylvania Cavalry, in which he was appointed first sergeant. He served with
undisputed bravery and commendable devotion to duty until captured by the enemy
and confined in Libby Prison at Richmond, Va., until released in 1863. He was
mustered out in 1865 with the rank of brevet-lieutenant, in recognition of
valiant conduct on the field. After the close of his war services Mr. Jennings
came to Wyoming as quartermaster for the Indians at Bryan's Station, where he
remained until 1881; then he went to Rock Springs, Sweetwater county, for a
short time and in 1882 came to Rawlins, he is now engaged in active mining
operations at Grand Encampment, which he is prosecuting with his usual energy,
untiring vigor and satisfactory results. He is a strong Republican in politics,
has served his party one term (1895) in the Wyoming legislature and is very
popular throughout Carbon county. Mrs. Mary L. (Raybuck) Jennings, the mother of
Harry Burt Jennings, was born in Washington county, Pa., in 1840, and is a
daughter of John P. and Mary L. (Harmon) Raybuck. She was reared, educated and
married in her native state and in early womanhood was a prominent teacher.
After coming to Wyoming she served several years as school superintendent for
Carbon county when it comprised all the territory extending from Colorado to
Montana, and was probably one of the most intellectual women of the far West.
Harry Burt Jennings was graduated from the Lincoln Business College in June,
1888, and almost immediately afterwards entered the office of the Union Pacific
Railroad at Rawlins as messenger, and from this humble position was promoted
regularly to ticket agent, his promotions being earned through attention to duty
and personal merit. So satisfactory were his services that he was retained in
the employ of the company for ten years, and he left only to enter upon the
field of politics and public life, which his growing popularity had made
peculiarly alluring and tempting. The first public position held by him was that
of doorkeeper of the Wyoming senate. This position he relinquished to become
secretary for I. W. Hugus & Co. at Rawlins, which he satisfactorily filled for
six years, lie next served for two years, to the eminent satisfaction of all
concerned, as city clerk of Rawlins and in 1901 he was elected on the Republican
ticket county clerk of Carbon county—the position he still so ably fills. H. B.
Jennings was most happily united in marriage on June 21, 1894, with Miss Ethel
Maxfield, the accomplished daughter of C. W. Maxfield, the present county
commissioner of Carbon county. To this felicitious union have been born two
children, Richard and Estella. Mr. Jennings has been very fortunate since coming
to Carbon county, but this is chiefly owing to his personal merits and close
attention to the interests of those by whom he has been employed, and to the
able manner in which he has performed the duties pertaining to the various
positions he has filled, backed by unswerving integrity.


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