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JENKINS

Dr. Daniel, who married Sarah, daughter of Dr. James and Marianine Craik, and who had two sons: Daniel of St. Thomas, who died unmar- ried; and the Hon. Daniel, representative (q. v.). The first Daniel of St. Thomas, the delegate, died in Charles county, Md., Nov. 6, 1790.

JENKINS, Albert Gallatin, representative, was born in Cabell county, Va., Nov. 10, 1830; son of "William and Jeannette G. (McNutt) Jenkins. He was a student at the Virginia Military insti- tute at Lexington, was graduated from Jefferson college, Pa., in 1848, and from the Harvard Law school in 1850. He was admitted to the bar the same year, and devoted himself to agriculture. He was a delegate to the Democratic national convention held in Cincinnati, in 1856; a rep- representative from Virginia in the 35th and 36th congresses, 1857-61; and a delegate to the provi- sional Confederate congress in 1861. He entered the Confederate army; was brigadier-general, 1862-63; assigned to a brigade in Gen. A. P. Hill's division, and when the cavalry was formed into a division under command of Gen. J. E. B. Stuart, his brigade was one of the five forming the divi- sion. He participated in the battle of Gettys- burg, and subsequently served in the Shenandoah valley and in southwestern Virginia in the de- fence of the salt works and in opposing Generals Crook and Averill at Saltville and Wytheville, and he was killed in battle at Cloyd's Mountain, Bear Dublin, Va., May 9, 1864.

JENKINS, Charles Jones, governor of Georgia, was born at Grimball Hill Place, Beaufort district, S. C, Jan. 6, 1805; the only child of Charles Jones Jenkins, clerk and ordinary of Beaufort district. He removed with his parents to a farm

in Jefferson county, Ga.,in 1816; attended Frankin college, Ath- ens, 1821-22; and was graduated from Union college, Sche- nectady, N.Y., in 1824. He studied law in Savannah, Ga., under Judge Berrien, was admitted to the Scriven county bar in 1822 and practis- ed in Sandersville until 1829, when he removed to Augusta. He was a state rep- resentative in 1830; attorney-general of the state and solicitor-general of the middle circuit, 1831; and was again a representative in the state legislature, serving from 1836 to 1841, again from 1843 to 1849; and was speaker of the liouse 1840- 45. He was a chairman of the state convention

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of 1850, and was the author of the resolutions known as " The Platform of 1850," which set forth the resolution that " The State of Georgia, even to the disruption of every tie which binds her to the Union, resist any act of congress abolishing slavery." He was offered the secretaryship of the interior by President Fillmore in 1851, but declined, and in 1852 he was named as candidate for Vice-President on the whig ticket with Daniel "Webster as President, the ticket receiving 1670 popular votes in Massachusetts. He was defeated for governor of Georgia by H. V. Johnson in 1853, was elected state senator in 1850 to fill the va- cancy caused by the death of Andrew J. Miller; and in 1800 he was appointed justice of the su- preme court of Georgia to fill a vacancy caused by the resignation of Linton Stephens. He was a member of the state constitutional reconstruc- tion convention that was called by President Johnson in 1865; was governor of Georgia, 1865- 68, and was president of the state constitutional convention in 1877. He was a trustee of the University of Georgia, 1834-84, and president of the board for many years. He also served as president of the Merchants and Planters bank and of the Augusta Cotton factory. Union college conferred on him the honorary degree of LL.D. in 1870. He died at Summerville, near Augusta, Ga., June 13, 1883.

JENKINS, Daniel Edwards, educator, was born at Flintshire, North Wales, Dec. 13, 1866; son of John M. and Jennie E. Jenkins. He im- migrated with his parents to the United States; attended Wooster university, Ohio, from 1882 to 1885, and was graduated from Melbourne uni- versity, Melbourne, Australia, in 1889. He was also a student at the Melbourne Theological sem- inary in the latter year, and at Princeton Theolo- gical seminary in 1889. He was ordained by the presbytery of Chester, Pa., Sept. 6, 1891, and was pastor at New London, Pa., 1891-96. He was elected president and Armstrong professor of mental and moral sciences at Parson college, Fairfield, Iowa, in 1896. He received the degree of A.M. from Melbourne university in 1890 and that of Ph.D. in 1898 from "Washington and Jefferson college. Pa. He was elected a member of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.

JENKINS, James Graham, jurist, was born at Saratoga Springs, N.Y., July 18, 1834; son of Edgar and Mary E. (Walworth) Jenkins, of New York city, and grandson of Reuben H. "Wal- worth, the last chancellor of the state of New York. He received a liberal education, studied law, and was admitted to the New York bar in 1855. He removed to Milwaukee, Wis., in 1857, and there practised law until 1888. He was city attorney of Milwaukee, 1863-67; was defeated on