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Obadiah Jennings was a native of New Jersey and son of the Rev Jacob
Jennings. He was born December 13, 1778, and came to Dunlap's Creek,
Fayette county, Penna, with his father who became pastor of the
Presbyterian Church at that place. He was educated at Canonsburg Academy,
studied law with John Simonson of Washington, and was admitted to the bar
of Washington county in 1801. He opened an office in Steubenville and in
1811 came to Washington, Penna, and built a small one story brick office
on Maiden Street below John Baird's. His residence was in the meadow at
the south end of First Street. After a practice of a few years, he
studied for the ministry and was licensed to preach in 1816. He became
pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Steubenville where he remained
till 1823. On the eighth of October in that year he received a call from
the First Presbyterian Church of Washington to become their pastor which
he accepted. He was installed the 23rd of the same month and remained
pastor until 1828. During his residence here as pastor he resided where
the public school building now stands, and later were J W Donnan now
resides. He also taught a young ladies school in 1824-1825. Upon his
retirement from this church he accepted a call from a Presbyterian Church
in Nashville, Tennessee, where he lived until his death in 1832.
History of Washington County, Pennsylvania: with biographical sketches
of many of its pioneers and prominent men / edited by Boyd Crumrine.
Illustrated. Philadelphia: L.H. Everts and Co., 1882. P486
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Robert Hazlett, a native of Ireland, was educated at Edinburgh
University, and soon after married and settled there for a time. Soon
after the close of the Revolutionary War he emigrated with his family to
this country and settled near Chambersburg, leaving one son at home with
his grandparents. At this place the most of his children were born. About
1795 he emigrated to Washington, Penna, and purchased of the Hoges, lot
92 on Main Street where he erected a dwelling. He opened a store first
near Hugh Wilson's on Main Street near Maiden, and late in 1797 moved to
where William Arbuckle lived. Still later he moved the store into the
house where he lived. He continued in business until his death in 1818 or
1819.
Robert Hazlett left six children, all of whom went West except Samuel
Hazlett. Mary Hazlett became the wife of a Mr Cummins, and mother of Drs
R H Cummins and James Cummins, now of Wheeling. The rest settled in
Zanesville, Ohio.
Samuel Hazlett, the youngest son of Robert Hazlett, was born in
Washington in 1798 and after his father's death continued the business
with his mother for a short time and purchased the rights of the heirs.
He then continued as a merchant until the establishment of the bank on
the first of April, 1837. From that time he continued in the banking
business till his death in November, 1863. Samuel Hazlett and Mrs Dr Wray
Grayson of of Washington are children of Samuel Hazlett. One son lives in
Pittsburgh, and one in Wheeling.
History of Washington County, Pennsylvania: with biographical sketches
of many of its pioneers and prominent men / edited by Boyd Crumrine.
Illustrated. Philadelphia: L.H. Everts and Co., 1882. P486
Historic Pittsburgh