Oliver Gould Jennings

Oliver Gould Jennings (April 27, 1865 – October 13, 1936) was an American financier and an heir to a fortune from Standard Oil who served in the Connecticut House of Representatives. a philanthropist. Walter Jennings, Helen Goodsell Jennings (wife of Dr. Walter Belknap James), and Emma Brewster Jennings, wife of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss Sr.

His maternal aunt, Almira Geraldine Goodsell, was the wife of Standard Oil co-founder William A. Rockefeller, Jr. Through his sister Emma, he was the uncle of Hugh D. Auchincloss, whose third wife was Janet Lee Bouvier, mother of First Lady Jackie Kennedy.

Jennings attended Phillips Andover, graduated from Yale University, was an 1887 initiate into Yale's Skull and Bones Society, and later graduated from Columbia Law School.

Career Jennings served on the boards of Bethlehem Steel, United States Industrial Alcohol Company, McKesson & Robbins, Kingsport Press, Signature Company, National Fuel Gas, and Grocery Store Products.

In 1923, Jennings was elected to serve in the Connecticut House of Representatives. Lawrence Kirtland Jennings (1903–1973),

Jennings built a forty-room French Renaissance style home called the Mailands in Fairfield, Connecticut. The building later became part of the campus of Fairfield University and was renamed McAuliffe Hall. Jennings also owned a mansion on East 72nd Street in New York City, which is now known as Oliver Gould Jennings House.

Death He died on October 13, 1936. His wife died in 1964 at the age of 93.