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HKRRINGSHAWS LIHUARY OF AMKUICAN

31S

from Maryland to twenty-fourth, twenty

rt'prosoiitjitive

the

ty wiK'ond,

fifth

twen-

in Weeds|jort,

Burns Atkins, clergyman, educa-

Jenkins,

tor, college president,

was l)orn He has

Oct.

'1,

180!>,

in Kansas I'ity. .lo. of the third diristian

Ih^mi pastor church of IndianupoMh, Intl.; and professor in Hutler college of hulianapolis ; was president of the university of Indianapolis; and in liMll 07 was presitlent of the Kentucky university at Lexington, Ky. and tills a pastorate in uansas City. Mo.

Charles Francis, publisher, auwas iMirn Dec. 17, ISO.'), in Xorristown, Since ISS.'l In- has U'cn engaged in the publishing busini*ss in Philadelphia, Pa. He is the author of (Quaker Poems; Ciuide Book Washington in Historic (^ermantt»wn t«» iernumtown and .lelferson's i>>>rmantown Jenkins,

thor, I'a.

(

Letters.

Jenkins, Charles Jones, lawyer, jurist, congovernor, was born .Jan. tJ, He served several in Hi-aufort, S.C. terms as a representative in the (leorgia state legislature; was four terms speaker of the house; and in 1831 was elected attorney- general of the state. He was a judge of the suprenn* court of the souliiern confederacy; and in 1805-69 was the twenty.lune IT«' died -ivtli goviTUor of tJcorgia. .

gressman, iS05.

14.

ISS3.

ill

S..1IH-I ville.

Ca.

Jenkins, Daniel Edwards, dei gyman. educator, Di'c.

lecturer, 13.

lS«;(i.

college in

|)resident.

New Wales.

was

Kiiglaml.

Ixirn

In

was a

presbyterian pastor of New London. Pa. In 18!)0 he became president and Ariii>itniiig professor of nx-ntal and moral sciences in Parson.« collejie at In ino.'i-OO he was Stone Kairlield, Iowa. lecturer at Princeton theological seminary. Kiiiiur. Ci-rmaiiy and Italy. She is Jenkins, Ellen J., author, poet. the author of a volume of poems entitled iSOI-tMi

he

.Niemories.

Jenkins, Edmund Fellows, soldier, philanthropist, founder, was Inirn July 28, 1844,

He

served in the civil

war; and was promoted to the rank of

and

twonty-sixth congr«'saes. In 1841-4") lie wan I'niti'd States minister to Austria, lie died Dee. IS, IS;").), near Tort Tobacco, Md. Jenison, Silas H., governor, was l>orn in I7SM in .Shorelium, N't. He was lieutenantgovernor in 1835; an<l was the eleventh governor of Vermont. He died Sept. 30, IS4!». in Shorehani. Vt. Jenkins, Albert Gallatin, soldier, congress* man, was born Nov. lo. S'M), in Calndl county. 'a. In 1857-01 he was a representative from N'irginia to the thirty iiftli ati<l congresses. tliirty sixth He sulwequently served as a brigadier-general in the eonfe<lerate service, and was killed at the battle of the W ilderness. He died May 7, 1S04, Dublin, Va. in Jenkins, Anna Almy, philanthropist, was l)orn Sept. I. 171UI. in I'rovidence. H.I. She was a mtted iM-nefactor of her time. She died Sow 20, 184!). in Providence, K.I.

BIOGRAPHY'.

N.Y.

first

lieutenant.

1875

he

In

became secand superin-

retary

tendent

New

the

of

York society for the of cruelty which children. to position he still occu-

prevention

pies.

He

iiized

humane

is

a

r«'cog

on

authority

matters

tliiougliout the world; has visited Europe several times; and aided in organizing such societies of England, Jennings, Frederic Beach, lawyer of 15 Itioad St.. New York ( ity. was born Aug. 0. 1853, in Pennington, Vt. He lias received the degrws of A.-W. and LL.IJ. he is vice-presi«leiit and direct«)r »)f the First National bank of North Pennington; a trustee of the New


ork Trust company; and attorney and

<li-

rector of various railroads anti industrial corporations. He lias Invn vice-president of the association of the l«ir of the city of

New

York. Jenkins, George Franklin, educator, phy-

president, was l>orii .luly 15. county, .Mo. In 1879-90 professor and president of the faculty of the college of physicians and •.urge«m8 at Keokuk, Iowa. In 1890 he was one of the organizers; and since then president and professor of the principles and practice of medicine, clinical medicine, and |)liysical dijigiiosis at the Keokuk me<lical collfge. In 1801 ne was president of the Iowa slate medical .society. Jenkins, Horatio, soldier, was born in Massachusetts. In 1801 he was first lieutenant in the fortieth regiment MaH.%achusetts infantry; and in 1805 was brevett<*d colonel and briga<lier-gi'neral of volunteers, lie was honorably mustered out in 1805. Jenkins, Moward Malcolm, journalist, autlior, was I)orn March 30, 1842, in Gwynedd, Pa. In ISSl-JM he was managing editor of the .merican of Philadelphia. Pa. In 18.S5 he liecame editor of ilie Friends* Intelligencer of Philadelpliia, Pa. He was the author of Historical Ccdlections Relating to fJwynedd, a work of local history, involving Welsh research; Mwiorial History of Philadelphia; and T]e Family of Wiiliam Penn. He died in 1902 in Philadelphia, Pa. Jenkins, James, clergyman, pioneer, author, was born Nov. 29. 1764. in Marion county, S.C. In 1792 he received a probation in the .Soiith Carolina conference; and in 1801 was presiding elder in the South Carolina district. He was the author of Kxperience. l>al)orfl an<l SufTerings. He «lied .Ian. 21. 1804. in Camden, S.C. Jenkins, James Graham, lawyer, jurist, was Iwirn .Tuly 18, 1834, in .Saratoga Springs. sician, college

1842,

he

in

Clark

was a

y

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