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“The Jennings Horror”: A Quack Cancer Doctor Tortures the Oil Region, 1876

On May 3, 2017May 10, 2017 By Jessica HilburnIn History & ObituariesLeave a comment

n this blog I have covered many foul murders, but none quite so insidious as that of young Mary Jennings of Troy Township. Mary Jennings was a sweet, fifteen-year-old girl who was going to school and growing up all in due time until her life was taken by a quack doctor in February 1876.

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