History and genealogy of Peter Montague, of Nansemond and ...

BRANCH OF HIS SON PETER. 369
college, class of 1869 and is a member of the firm of Speer, Jones
& Co., oil merchants, St. Louis, a business built up to a very suc-
cessful stage by his own energy.
CHILDREN.
2864. Fitzhugh Coyle, b. April 4, 1S74.
2865. Alexander, b. Oct. 19, 1881.
1711.
James Gustav Jennings, son of John C. [588], b. May 4, 1852 in
Bonn, on the Rhein, in Germany. He was educated at the Polytech-
nic school of Kaiserslantern, Bavaria. He came to America in 187 1,
and m., Feb. 17, 1875, Clymena Carrier of Bunker Hill, Kansas.
He is a civil engineer and moved to St. Louis in 1882 for the purpose
of devoting his attention exclusively to his profession, where he now
resides.
CHILDREN.
2866. Charles IV. E., b. Feb. 4, 1877.
2867. Otto P., b. May 23, 1879.
2868. Eva Sarah, b. Oct. n, 1S83.
1712.
William Montague Jennings, son of John C. [588], b. March 6,
1854, in Bonn, Germany. He came to America in company with his
brother in 1871, and entered upon a course of study at the Washing-
ton university in the city of St. Louis, Mo. He m., Sept. 6, 1881,
Cornelia Kretz of Sheboygan, Wis., and moved to Collyer, Kansas,
where he now resides, engaged in stock raising.
children.
2S69. Ida, b. Sept. 1, 1882.
2870. Hildegarde, b. July 1, 1884.
1826.
John Beverly Montague, son of George W. [666], b. Aug. 13,
1854; m., 1876, Miss Lue Ellen Cobbs, dau. of Leonard Cobbs*,
whose profession was steamboating. She was b. March 7, i860.
Mr. Montague is engaged in the lumber business and resides in
Charleston, West Va.
*The ancient English name of Cobbs, has also been variously spelled Cobb, Cobbe and
Cobbes. They were an old Norfolk family, but were also seated in the Counties of Oxford,