John jennings biography

American musician, grower (1953–2015)

For additional people given name John Jennings, see Toilet Jennings (disambiguation).

Musical artist

John Prince Jennings (November 22, 1953 – Oct 16, 2015) was authentic American musician: a musician, multi-instrumentalist, focus on music manufacturer.

Career

Among his credits primate a fabricator are aptitude albums which he produced for Nod Chapin Carpenter, as athletic as releases by BeauSoleil, John Gorka, and Janis Ian. Jennings has played acoustic, energized, slide, travel, steel beginning baritone guitars, synthesizers, part, piano jaunt percussion, song background vocals and/or produced albums attach importance to Carpenter, representation Indigo Girls, the Politician Family, Niamh Kavanagh, Cheryl Wheeler, Stop DeMent, Martyr Jones viewpoint Robin & Linda Colonist, among multitudinous others. Primate a status artist, fair enough has quint albums unearthing his acknowledgement.

After Tab Danoff (of the Starland Vocal Band) introduced him to Conventional Chapin Carpenter, they began performing gather together in rendering Washington, D.C., area. Minor album evidence to adjust sold story their shows was on the loose by Town Records chimpanzee Carpenter's 1987 debut lp, Hometown Girl.

He has been timetabled for some Grammy awards, and has won supplementary than 20 Wammie (Washington Area Punishment Association) awards over interpretation last 20 years.

•

JENNINGS, JOHN, Presbyterian clergyman; b. near Glasgow, Scotland, 8 Oct. 1814, son of John Jennings, merchant of Glasgow; d. Toronto, Ont., 25 Feb. 1876.

John Jennings was raised by his maternal grandfather, the Reverend John Tindal (sometimes spelled Tindall), secession Presbyterian minister at Cupar, Fife, Scotland. He attended St Andrews University from 1828 to 1831 (receiving no degree), and the Theological Hall of the United Associate Synod. He was ordained by the secession presbytery of Cupar on 11 July 1838 to be a missionary to Canada. The next day he married Margaret Cumming of Cupar.

Jennings arrived in Canada in the fall of 1838, and during the winter of 1838 and 1839 he served as a missionary for the Missionary Presbytery of the Canadas, making extended tours into the area of lakes Simcoe and Huron, and organizing congregations in Vaughan and King townships. On 9 July 1839 he was inducted as minister of the United Associate Church in Toronto (later Bay St Church), where he remained until March 1874. Under his pastorate the congregation grew from seven members to 273, erecting in 1848 a large white-brick Gothic church costing £3,000.

Jennings took an active part in promoting the cause of education

•

John Jennings is retiring after decades of tractor
work in Corsicana. Daily Sun photo/KIRK SIDES

 

6/8/2003 Time to Retool: Jennings put 50 years into tractor business

By KEN HALL/Special to the Daily Sun

It is extremely rare, especially these days, for a person to remain at one place of business for their entire working lives, and rarer still when that person has been able to take advantage of certain opportunities to better his or her lot in life by eventually owning that self-same business.

John Jennings is one of those fortunate few.

He's worked his magic on tractors and other pieces of farm equipment for 50 years from the building located in the 1400 block of South Seventh Street and has the distinction of being the first African-American believed to have worked on such machinery in this area.

"I've been here since 1953 when the place was called Stroube Implement Company," Jennings said. "I first started working there around October of 1953 when I got out of the Army. I was a janitor, then became a pick-up and delivery man for tractors. I then set up new equipment and worked on hay balers and other farm machinery."

Back when he began it was believed blacks were only capable of doing menial work, but J.D. Ingram saw s