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SAMUEL D. JENNINGS, M. D., post office Beers, was born in the Thirty-sixth ward, Pittsburgh, Pa., June 11, 1844, a son of Rev. Samuel C. and Emma Marie (Passavant) Jennings. He attended school in Moon township and Shousetown Academy, and at sixteen entered Jefferson College, Cannonsburg, Pa., from which he graduated in 1864. He read medicine with Dr. Porter at Rostraver, Pa., one year, and in the fall of 1865 entered Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, where he graduated in March, 1868. He practiced at Perrysville, Pa., until November, 1870, when he located in Moon township, where he has a large practice. Dr. Jennings married, May 26, 1870, Juliet E. McAboy, a daughter of Rev. Leland R. and Mary A. (Christy) McAboy. Her father was a Presbyterian minister, a native of Virginia, and a son of Rev. James McAboy, who in early life was a noted evangelist in the Baptist Church, but in later years became a Presbyterian minister. Dr. Jennings and wife have had seven children, four of whom are living: Samuel D., Jr., Juliet McA., Emma M. and Virginia P. The parents are members of the Presbyterian Church at Sharon. The doctor is a member of Dexter Lodge, No. 723, I. O. O. F., and of the Jr. O. U. A. M.