GENERAL BOTHA - the Career and the Man

Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Very Good-. 1916. First Edition. Hardcover. 348 pages; Boston: Very Good-. 1916. First Edition. 348 pages; Portrait frontispiece, tissue-guarded, PP. 348 including Foreword, List of the 4 Full Page Maps (South Africa, Plan of Battle of Colenso, German South-West Africa, South and Central Africa) . Footnotes, full page Genealogical Table, Appendix 1: Botha's Life Dates; 2: The Dinizulu Agreement; 3: The Vereeniging Treaty, Index. OCLC 2651328 Former owner's name in pencil on ffep - "H. Jennings. " Contents clean and secure in original tan cloth binding with faded lettering at spine. One inch superficial stain at head of spine, not affecting contents. James Hennen Jennings (1854-1920) , a mining engineer, born at Hawesville, KY. After attending private schools in London and Derbyshire, England, Jennings returned to Kentucky and set up a lumber business, but soon wanted to further his engineeering education. He graduated from the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard University in 1877 with the degree C. E. Jennings then headed West and worked in gold and quicksilver mines in California for the next ten years. In 1887 he went to Venezuela for another mining job. Finally, his talents as an innovative mining engineer, took him to South Africa. During 1889-1905 he was consulting engineer of H. Eckstein, in Johannesburg, and Wemher Beit, in London. Jennings was chiefly responsible for the development and expansion of their mines, employing the most technologically advanced methods and equipment available in the day. In the rough and tumble of South Africa, he managed to keep out of John Hays Hammond's conspiracy to overthrow Kruger's government and to earn a fortune (the equivalent of about 10 million pounds in 2014 dollars) before he returned to America in 1905. .; African Studies, Most Recent Listing, Most Recent Listing .