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SON of John and Chloe (Thompson) Jenkins, this member of our Class was born at
Falmouth, Massachusetts, May 19, 1843. He was fitted for college at Lawrence Academy,
in his native town, entered our Class in September, 1859, and was graduated with us,
receiving the appointment of an oration on the Commencement program. In college, he
joined the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity; was a member of the 'Technian Literary Society,
and one of the council of this society in 1862, and its librarian in 1863, and on the
committee of arrangements for Biennial Celebration, 1861. After leaving college, Jenkins,
for a little more than a year, was a clerk in the office of the Ohio State School
Commissioner, Columbus, Ohio, and then engaged in business at Freeport, Illinois, until
1874. He then removed to Boston, where he engaged in the boot and shoe business.
Within a few years Jenkins has retired from business, and is living in a beautiful home in
Jamaica Plain, a suburb of Boston. There you may be sure he will greet you with the
countenance of one who is not tired of the world and has a solid conviction that the world
is not tired of him. In whatsoever estate he is placed, therein he is content, being good and
doing good, after his own fashion, as the days go by.
On the 15th of January, 1874, our classmate married Miss Henrietta Lindsay
Webster, daughter of John Lindsay Webster, Boston, Massachusetts. They have had one
child, a son, born September 10, 1877. Prepared for college at Mr. Hopkinson's private
school, Boston, and was graduated in the academical department of Harvard University in
1901.
Source:
Class of Sixty-Three Williams College Fortieth Year Report, by
the Class Historian, Thomas Todd Printer, Boston, 1903
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