JENNER, Thomas (1849-1936), an architect active in Kingsville, Ont. for nearly thirty years, is credited with the design of several commercial, ecclesiastical and residential projects situated in towns throughout Essex County in western Ontario. Born in Tonbridge, Co. Kent, England on 23 November 1849 he learned the trade of carpentry there. In 1872 he emigrated to Canada, settling briefly at Strathroy, Ont. before moving to the United States. Within a year he had returned to Canada, taking up residence in Amherstburg, then Essex, and then in Kingsville where he began to style himself as architect and contractor, offering his skill as both designer and as a builder of a variety of projects. Jenner retired from the profession after 1914 and took up farming, then returned to Kingsville in 1917. He later moved to Harrow, Ont. and died there on 1 August 1936 (obit. Leamington Post, 6 Aug. 1936, 5; Kingsville Reporter 6 Aug. 1936, 1; inf. Veronica Brown, Kingsville).
KINGSVILLE, ONT., residence for Alexander J. Wigle, Division Street South, 1884 (Amherstburg Echo, 15 Aug. 1884, 6, descrip.)
KINGSVILLE, ONT., Pastorius House Hotel, Main Street East, for Walter Pastorius, 1885 (Amherstburg Echo, 13 June 1885, 6, descrip.)
HARROW, ONT., Methodist Church, 1893 (Evening Record [Windsor], 16 June 1893, 2; Christian Guardian [Toronto], 1 Nov. 1893, 692, descrip.)
KINGSVILLE, ONT., The King Block, a brick commercial block for J.W. King, 1895 (Amherstburg Echo, 8 March 1895, 1)
KINGSVILLE, ONT., Baptist Church, Division Street North, 1896; demol. 1975 (Kingsville Reporter, 27 March 1896, 8)
HARROW, ONT., St. Andrew's Anglican Church, 1905 (N. Ellis, A History of St. Andrew's Church, Harrow, c. 1964, 6, illus.)
KINGSVILLE, ONT., Trinity Methodist Church, Road 2 West, 1906 (Kingsville Reporter, 22 March 1906, 5, descrip.)
KINGSVILLE, ONT., parsonage for the Methodist Church, 1906 (C.R., xvii, 28 March 1906, 2, t.c.)
COTTAM, ONT., Methodist Church, Road 34 West, 1913 (Kingsville Reporter, 6 Feb. 1913, 8)
PELEE ISLAND, ONT., Public School, North Shore Road, 1913 (Kingsville Reporter, 11 Sept. 1913, 1, descrip.)
KINGSVILLE, ONT., residence for Angus McDonald, McLean Street East, 1915 (Evening Record, 20 April 1915, 8)
KINGSVILLE, ONT., Salem Public School, major addition, 1915 (Evening Record [Windsor], 20 April 1915, 8, descrip.)