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* JENCKES. 170 JENKINS. boundary, and later seiTcd Massachusetts in her disputes with Maine and New Hampshire. In 1721 he went to England to bring the boundary question before the King. After many years in the Legislature and ten years' service as Deputy Governor, he was elected Governor (1727). In this capacity lie vetoed an act au- thorizing the issue of paper money. He refused reelection in 1732. According to story, Jenckos was seven feet in height, and splendidly built. JENCKES, Thomas Allen- (1S18-75). An Anurican kiiislator and lawyer, born at Cumber- land. K. 1.. and cilucated at Brown University. He attained ])roniinence at the Rhode Island bar; was Government counsel in the suits against the Credit Jlobilier and was engaged in patent cases, especially those on the Sickles and Corliss steam- engine and the rubber patents of Day and Good- year. Ue was intimately connected with tlie State Government during Dorr's rebellion ( 1842) ; became secretary of the Governor's Council : served in both liodies of the State Legislature: and practically unaided carried his ])oint (Peck- ham vs. Uurrows) that the Legislature could or- der a new trial. He was elected to Congress by the Republican Party in 1SG2, and served until 1871. He introduced the general bankrupt law of 1867, as well as important bills for the re- vision of copyright and patent statutes. His name is especially identified with etrorts for the reform of the civil service. In 1SG8 he prepared an elaborate report on the civil service of other countries, and by speeches and reports he ])ro- moted the passage of the law which lies at the basis of the reform. Consult fir.st report of the United States Civil-Service Commission (1884). JENGHIS KHAN, jen'glz Kan. See Gen- ghis KlIA.N. JEN'KIN, Hexkietta Camilla (.Jacksox) (c.1807-85). An English novelist, born in .Ja- maica. She married Charles .Jenkin. a British naval officer, in 18.32. Afterwards she lived in Paris. Genoa, and Edinburgh. Her novels con- tain faitliful and lively descriptions of character. They include: Moirt Banks, and lt» Inmatiis (1858); Cousin {Stella (1859); Who Breaks, Pays (18G1); Skirmishing (1862); Once and Afjain (18G5), Tito French Mania rjes (1808. re- printed in New York as A Psi/che of To-Daif, 18GS) : ^tadomp de Baiiprfs (18G9) ; ^Vithin an Ace (1809) : and Jupiter's Daughters (1874). JENKIN, Henry Ciiahles Fleemixg (18.33- 85). An English engineer and electrician. He was born at Stowting Court. Kent, England, and. after being instructed at a number of educational institutions, graduated from the L'niversity of Genoa as Master of Arts in 1850. While engaged in electrical engineering connected with cable test- ing and laying, he became acquainted with Sir William Thomson, afterwards Lord Kelvin, and later a partnership was established, and many important cables were laid under their direc- tion. In addition to his work in telegraph and cable engineering. .Tenkin was also associated with Sir William Tliomson and 0. F. Varley in the invention and construction of electrical in- struments. At Sir William's suggestion he was made a member of the committee appointed by the British .Association to consider and deter- mine practical electrical units, and prepared a number of important reports on this subject. He also devised the system of telpherage for the transportation of goods from place to place, and was interested in questions of mechanical and civil engineering, as well as electrical matters. In 18G5 he became professor of engineering in Uni- versity College, London, and in 18G8 lie accepted a call to a similar chair in the University of Edin- burgh, which he held until his death. In 1805 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London, and in 1879 was elected vice-president of the Royal Society of Edinhiirgli, the larger part of his many scientific papers appearing in the Transactions and Proceedings of these two .societies. He was an LL.D. of Glasgow Uni- versity, and was a man of letters and broad in- formation, as well as a successful scientist. He was partieularl}' interested in sanitary reform, and organized societies for this purpose in Edin- burgh and elsewhere. He was the autlior of a successful work on Electricity and Magnetism (1873). His Papers, Literary, Scientific, etc., edited by Sidney Colvin and J. A. Ewing, with a memoir by R. L. Stevenson, were published in 1887. JEN'KINS, Chahles Jones (1805-83). An American statesman and jurist, born in Beaufort District, S. C, and educated at the University of Georgia and Union College. He was elected to the Legislature of Georgia in 1830. .served a short term as Attorney-General, and was in the Georgia House from 1S30 to 1850 as leader of his ])arty and as Speaker. Although he was a Democrat, he supported Harrison (1840) and Clay (1844). Jenkins was chairman of the State Convention which, in the 'Platform of 1850,' threatened secession: in the same year he refused the portfolio of the Interior. He was State Senator from IS5G to 18G0. and judge of the Su- preme Court from I8G0 to 1805; was elected provisional Governor in 1805; served until 1808; and was president of the Constitutional Conven- tion of 1877. Consult Jones, Life of C. J. Jenkins (Augusta, Ga., 1884). JENKINS. Edward (1838—). An Anglo- Indian huvyer. politician, and author, born at Bangalore, India. He was educated at the !McGiIl University and at the University of Pennsyl- vania, and studied law at Lincoln's Inn. London, where he was admitted barrister in 1804. He acquired a lucrative colonial practice: was coun- sel for the coolies on the Demerara Coolie Com- mission in 1870; was agent-general for Canada in 1874-7G; and was a member of the Royal Commission on Copyright in 1S7G-77. After an unsuccessful contest as a Liber.al candidate for Truro in 1870, he represented Dundee in Parlia- ment in the Liberal interest from 1S74 to 1880; but as an Independent Liberal and Imperialist, and later as a Conservative, failed in his can- vasses for Edinburgh in 1881, and for Dundee in 1885 and in 1890. He has been a prolific political and miscellaneous essayist, and as a novelist produced several works, of which Ginx's Baby. His Birth and .Misfortunes (1870), pub- lished anonymously, ^vas his first sticcess. Among his later writings are: Lord Bantam (2 vols., 1871) : Barney Geoqhegan. M.P., and Home Rule at Saint Stephen's (1872) ; Little Hodge (1872), which had a great vogue; The Deril's Chain (1S7G) ; I.utehmee and Dilloo: .4 Study of West Indian Life (3 vols., 1877) : The Captain's Cahin : .1 Christmas Tarn (1877); The Russo-Twkish