Built on a heritage, steeped in tradition and brewed with zeal. Jennings Lodge Brewing was established in 2012 and has been exceeding expectations ever since. History
Berryman Jennings, my Great Great Great Grandfather was born in Jessamine, Kentucky in 1807. Iowa's first school-master, Berryman traveled along with 4 other families in a pioneer wagon train led by Lot Whitcom; including the Powell,
Mulkey, Oaf and Burkhart families. The trip took 7 months and 21 days, arriving in what is now Oregon City in November 1847. White collaborated in building the first ship on the Willamette River named the Lot Whitcomb Independence Steamship. After weekly trips between Oregon City and Astoria, the ship was sold to a trading company in San Francisco. Berryman was the first Grand Master of Masons in Oregon in 1851 and remained very active in the Masons throughout his life. He became a member of the Oregon legislature in 1860 and later registrar of the Oregon City land office. He married twice and fathered 7 children--
first, Lucinda White, in 1837, in Warren County, Illinois, who died while crossing the plains, leaving a son, Edward; (Lucinda, the wife
of Berryman Jennings, died while crossing the plains; also an infant daughter died during the same trip--Mrs. Florence Jennings Mason)
later Martha Pope, at the home of Governor Abernethy at Green Point,
Oregon, in 1850. Berryman Jennings died in his home along the Willamette River in 1888.