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428 was president of a board that awarded a large ag- gregate sum to enlisted men and their families, lie was commissioned as commodore on 25 July, 1866. From 1865 till he resigned the office on the change of administration in 1869. he was chief of the board of navigation, and then secretary of the light-house board till 1871. being promoted rear-admiral on 13 July, 1870. Afterward he commanded the naval forces on the Asiatic station until he was retired on 12 Dec, 1873. He had charge of the exhibit of the navy department at the Centennial exhibi- tion at Philadelphia in 1876.

JENKS, Edward Watrons, physician, b. in Victor, Ontario co., N. Y., 31 March, 1833. His father, Nathan Jenks, removed to La Grange county, Ind., in 1843, laid out the village of Onta- rio, and endowed La Grange collegiate institute. The son was educated at that institution, began the study of medicine in New York university, and was graduated at Castleton, Vt., medical school in 1855, and afterward at Bellevue hospital medical college, N. Y. After practising in La Grange county, Ind., and Warsaw, N. Y., he went to De- troit, Mich., in 1864. and for four years was one of the editors of the " Review of Medicine." In 1868 he became professor of obstetrics in the medical college there, of which he was the projector and its president, and he was also lecturer at Bowdoin college, Me., on the diseases of women. Dr. Jenks was surgeon to various hospitals, president of the Michigan state medical society, and one of the founders and an active member of the American gynecological society, and correspondent of Detroit medical library association. In 1878 Albion col- lege conferred on him the degree of LL. D. In 1879 he was appointed to the chair of medical and surgical diseases of women in Chicago medical col- lege, and moved to that city. After five years of residence there, climatic difficulties necessitated a return of his family to Detroit, where he is now (1887) in practice. Dr. Jenks has invented obstet- rical forceps and other surgical instruments for use in gynecology. He is the author of numerous con- tributions to professional literature, including " Re- port of a Successful Case of Cesarean Section " (New York, 1877) ; " Practice of Gynecology in Ancient Times " (in " Gynecological Transactions," 1882) ; and " New Mode of Operating for Fistula in Ano " (New York, 1883). He is one of the au- thors of " American System of Practical Medicine," edited by Dr. William Pepper (5 vols., Philadel- phia, 1885-7), and of the "American System of Gynecology " (1887).

JENKS, John Whipple Polter, naturalist, b. in West Boylston, Mass., 1 May, 1819. He was fraduated at Brown in 1838, was principal of 'eirce academy from 1842 till 1871, professor of zoology in Boston horticultural society in 1858-'60, and has held the chair of agricultural zoology and the curatorship of the museum in Brown univer- sity since 1873. In the promotion of his profession he has been an extensive traveller in almost every country in Europe, and also since 1885 in every state and territory of the Union. The gathering of the extensive collections of Brown university is mainly due to his labors. He was the first natu- ralist to explore the everglades of Florida and the region around Lake Okechobee. Mr. Jenks's pub- lications include bulletins on the " Food of Birds " in the annual reports of the Boston horticultural society (1859) ; " Hunting in Florida " (1874) ; and " Jenks and Steele's Zoology," a text-book for high- schools (1876, revised ed., 1887).

JENKS, Phoebe, artist, b. in Portsmouth, N. H., 28 July. 1847. She is the daughter of Denis Hoyt, and was married to Lewis E. Jenks. She began the study of art in Boston in 1873, early de- veloped skill in painting, and almost immediately became successful in her profession. She has fre- quently exhibited at the Boston art club and the National academy of design. Among her ideal productions that have attracted general attention are " La Cantatrice," " The Triumph," " Priscilla, the Spinner," and "Mamma's Comb." She is emi- nently successful as a painter of the portraits of women and children.

JENKS, William, clergvman, b. in Newton, Mass., 25 Nov., 1778; d. in Boston, 13 Nov., 1866. He was sixth in descent from Joseph, of Lynn. He was graduated at Harvard in 1797, and for a time was reader in Christ's church, Cambridge, Mass. Later he was engaged as a private tutor, received a license to preach from the Boston association, and was ordained over the 1st Congregational church, Bath, Me., on 26 Dec, 1805. He remained there twelve years, and was chaplain to a Bath regiment during the war of 1812. In connection with pastoral duties he held for three years the professorship of oriental language and English literature in Bowdoin. In 1818 he returned to Boston and instituted special meetings for seamen, of which he was pioneer. He opened the first free chapel for seamen on Central wharf, and another at the west end, the former growing into the Mariners' church and sailors' home, the basis of the present City missionary society. After building a chapel in Botolph street a congregation was gathered and a church erected in Green street, over which Dr. Jenks was settled from 1826 till 1845. In 1825 Bowdoin conferred on him the degree of D. D., and in 1862 that of LL. D. Harvard gave him that of D. D. in 1842. Dr. Jenks was a founder of the American oriental society, and a member of the American antiquarian society, of Worcester, Mass., of which he was four years corresponding secretary and thirteen senior vice-president. In 1813 and 1863 he delivered and published addresses before the society. For many years he was a member and contributor to the Massachusetts historical society, an honorary member of the New England historic genealogical society from its beginning in 1845, and five years chairman of its publishing committee. A portrait of Dr. Jenks hangs in the library of the society. Besides occasional sermons and addresses he published a "Commentary on the Bible," of which 120,000 volumes were sold (5 vols., Brattleboro, Vt., 1834 ; 6 vols., Philadelphia, 1851), and " Explanatory Bible Atlas and Scripture Gazetteer " (Boston, 1849). He also edited other works. — His son, Joseph William, educator, b. in Bath, Me., 23 Nov., 1808 ; d. in Newtonvilfe, Mass., 7 June, 1884, was graduated from Amherst in 1829, and received an appointment as chaplain and professor of mathematics in the U. S. navy, serving on the " Concord " under Com. Perry. Resigning his commission, he became a student in the Royal school of languages in Paris, and on his return to the United States he spent seven years aiding his father in the preparation of the " Comprehensive Commentary " on the Bible. He was principal of a private school for young ladies in Boston in 1850-'2, and in 1852 became professor of languages in Urbana university, Ohio. He afterward established the first agricultural paper in Illinois. Mr. Jenks was an extensive writer on educational, oriental, and general topics, and a linguist, having a practical knowledge of nearly thirty languages, mostly oriental. He was a life-member of the American oriental society, and a frequent contributor to its literature