Walter Jennings (industrialist)

Walter Jennings (September 14, 1858 - January 9, 1933) was an American industrialist who served as president of National Fuel Gas Company and the Jekyll Island Club.

Through his sister Emma, he was an uncle of Hugh D. Auchincloss, whose third wife was Janet Lee Bouvier, mother of First Lady Jackie Kennedy.

[8] On November 11, 1891, Jennings was married to Jean Pollock Brown (1864–1949) at the South Church on Madison Avenue and 38th Street in New York City.

[9] Together, they were the parents of: In New York City, they lived at 9 East 70th Street and in the late 1890s, he became a summer resident of Cold Spring Harbor on Long Island where he had a large country home built by Carrère and Hastings and known as Burrwood.

[18] He also collected early American and Georgian silver, Chinese porcelain (including K'ang Hsi examples) and an English and French furniture.