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NAME JENKS 622 JENNINGS for health reasons, and on returning worked three years more, and then after an illness of nine weeks, died Oct. 9, 1882. Dr. Jenkins had a large and valuable library, his especial pet and pride, filled with choice works on anatomy, surgery, botany, obstetrics, medical history, biography and bibliography. After his death his books, which were sold in over 1,800 lots, embraced in a catalogue of over a hundred pages, were scattered and brought the paltry sum of $3,940.98 ! He was a long time intimate friend of his neighbor, the great bibliophile G. J. Fisher (q. V.) of Sing Sing, New York. Howard A. Kelly. Trans. Med. Soc. New York, Syracuse, G. J. Fisher, 1884, 369-87. Jenks, Edward Watrous (1833-1903) Edward Watrous Jenks, gynecologist and obstetrician, was born March 31, 1833, at Vic- tor, New York, where his father, Nathan Jenks, had long kept a general store. In 1843 the family removed to LaGrange County, In- diana, where the elder Jenks had large tracts of land. Here he laid out the town of On- tario and established the LaGrange Collegiate Institute, in which E. W. Jenks received his general education. In 18S3 he began his medi- cal training at the University of New York, continuing it at Castleton Medical College, Castleton, Vermont, receiving his M. D. in 1855. He began practice at Ontario, Indiana, continuing there till his removal to Detroit in 1864, excepting two years spent at Warsaw, New York, and one winter at Bellevue Hos- pital Medical College New York, where he received his ad eundcm, M. D. in 1864. When Dr. Jenks settled in Detroit the same year, medical matters were in a plastic state. Since the early fifties abortive efforts had been made to utilize its clinical material for the medical department of Michigan Univer- sity and he soon solved the problem by found- ing the Detroit Medical College. He married Miss Darling, of Warsaw, in 18.59, but she died childless shortly after mov- ing to Detroit. In 1867 he married Miss Joy, daughter of the Hon. J. F. Joy, of Detroit, by whom he had two children, Mattie and a son, Nathan, who became a physician in Detroit. Jenks died of pneumonia, on the cars be- tween Detroit and Chicago, March 19, 1903, after an illness of five days. Among his many appointments and mem- berships he was: In 1866 a founder of the Michigan State Medical Society, its president in 1873 ; a founder of the Detroit Academy of Medicine, vice-president in 1869, president in 1871 ; a founder of the Detroit Gynecological Society in 1879, president in 1888; a founder of the American Gynecological Society; a founder of the Detroit Medical Library Asso- ciation ; honorary member of the London Ob- stetrical Society, 1884; member Maine Medical Association, 1875, Jenks was a founder and for four years editor of the Detroit Review of Medicine and Pharmacy, 1866-69; a founder of the Detroit Medical College in 1868. its pres- ident and professor of obstetrics from 1868 to 1880; in 1879 professor of ob.stetrics and diseases of women and children at Bowdoin College, Maine; in 1879 professor of gynecol- ogy, Chicago Medical College ; in 1892 professor of gynecology-, Michigan College of Medicine and Surgery, Detroit; from 1865-80 gynecologist to Harper's Hospital, Detroit; 1868-80 gj'necologist to St. Mary's Hospital, Detroit ; 1875-80 gynecologist to the Woman's Hospital. He was a constant attendant at the meetings of the American Gynecological Society and his numerous papers may be found in its Transac- tions, in the Detroit Review of Medicine and Surgery, in the American Journal of Obstet- rics and other periodicals of the time. Leartus Connor. Representative Men in Mich., Cincinnati, O., 1878, vol. i. Tour. Amer. Med. Assc, 1003, vol. xl. 862. Trans. Amer. Gyn. Soc, 1903, vol. xxviii, 335-337. A. F. Currier. Jennings, Samuel Kennedy (1771-1854) Samuel Kennedy Jennings was born in Es- sex County, New Jersey, and studied medicine with his father, Dr. Jacob Jennings ; in 1818 he received an M. D. (hon.) from the Univer- sity of Maryland. He was ordained a minister in the Metho- dist Episcopal Church, and in 1817 moved to Baltimore, where he was president of Asbury College, 1817-18; president of the Medical So- ciety of Baltimore 1823-4; a founder of Wash- ington Medical College, Baltimore, in 1827; professor of materia medica 1827-9; professor of obstetrics 1839-42; professor of anatomy, Maryland Academy of Fine Arts, 1838-43. He lived in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 1845 to 1853. Jennings wrote "A Plain, Elementary Ex- planation of the Natural Cure of Disease" . . ., Richmond, 1814; "Letters and Certifi- cates Recommending the Patent Portable Warm and Hot Bath". . ., Norfolk, 1816; "The Married Lady's Companion," Richmond; "A Compendium of Medical Science; or. Fif- ty Years Experience in the Art of Healing" . . ., Tuscaloosa, Ala., 1847 (portrait). He died at Baltimore, Oct. 19, 1854.