Brewster Jennings

Benjamin Brewster Jennings, a founder and president of the Socony-Vacuum company, which became, in 1955, the Standard Oil Company of New York (Socony), which would later become Mobil Oil, and then merged to become part of ExxonMobil. [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,815982,00.html "High-Flying Horse"] , "Time", February 11, 1952, accessed May 5, 2007.] [Vincent Ferraro, Ruth C. Lawson Professor of International Politics, Mount Holyoke College, [http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/Petroleum/forest3.htm "The Forrestal Diaries"] , inc. bibliographical reference for Walter Millis, ed. "The Forrestal Diaries" (New York: The Viking Press, 1951); rpt. of "Entry of 6 January 1948 on a Discussion with Brewster Jennings, President of Socony-Vacuum on the Importance the Palestine Issue to Middle Eastern Oil, p. 272", online posting on Professor Ferraro's grant-supported webpage at Mount Holyoke College, accessed May 5, 2007.]

According to Nicholas E. Hollis, in a section of his article "Jennings Farm" entitled "Entrepreneurial Visions": "In his blend of educator and entrepreneur, Berryman Jennings could easily have met Joel A. Jennings and/or traded with Oliver Burr Jennings, who had also migrated to San Francisco in the early 1850s (originally of Fairfield, Connecticut), and set up a dry goods merchandise business in partnership with Benjamin Brewster. The partners became successful, outfitting prospecting camps along the coast and around Sacramento. Oliver B. Jennings would return east wealthy and join his brother-in-law, William Rockefeller, as an early investor in the Standard Oil Trust, eventually becoming a leading trustee with John D. Rockefeller."Nicholas E. Hollis, [http://www.agribusinesscouncil.org/Jennings%20Heritage/EducationalPioneers.htm "Jennings Farm: Nurturing Education and Entrepreneurial Spirits"] , "Educational Pioneers", "Jennings Heritage Project", n.d., accessed May 5, 2007.]

Benjamin Brewster Jennings, also known as Brewster Jennings, was named after his paternal grandfather, Benjamin Brewster: "Both his paternal and maternal grandfathers, Benjamin Brewster and Oliver B. Jennings, had helped stake John D. Rockefeller, became his partners in running the Standard Oil Trust and left huge fortunes."

In 1920 he graduated from Yale, where he was tapped for the secret society Scroll and Key. He was awarded the presidential certificate of merit for outstanding contributions to the war effort (Oct 30, 1947, "Presidential awards go to 8 for war effort", New York Times)

ee also

*ExxonMobil
*Mobil

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