SAMUEL CALHOUN JENKINS
SAMUEL CALHOUN JENKINS, of Bay Minette, Baldwin county, was born in Wlicox county in 1870, and is the son of Lucky Walker and Ellen Shaw (Nettles) Jenkins, and the grandson of Rev. John and Fannie (Dunham) Jenkins, and of John Nettles, who lived at Black's Bend, Wlicox county. Joseph Jenkins, his great-grandfather, was a soldier in the Revolutionary War under Gen. Marion, while his wife, who was a Miss Lewis, was the daughter of Josiah Lewis, a leading Tory in the war. These ancestors lived in Horry district, S. C. Rev. John Jenkins was a pioneer Methodist preacher, and in 1813 was in Fort Mims a few days before the massacre; at the close of the Creek War he went up the Alabama river and settled in what afterwards became Wlicox county; he was one of the commissioners appointed to select the county site of that county, and to contract for the buildings. Canton, on the Alabama river, was selected. Lucky Walker Jenkins, his son, was born at Allenton, Wilcox county, and lived during the greater part of his life at Camden, where he was a practising physician until his death in 1888. He served in the War of Secession in the company of his brother, Captain Thomas F. Jenkins. Samuel Calhoun Jenkins received his preparatory education at Camden; and graduated at the University of Alabama in 1889, receiving the degree of A. B.; in 1890 he received the honorary degree of A. M. from the same institution. He taught school three years, then studied law, and graduated from the University in 1897 with the degree of bachelor of laws. He began the practice of law in October, 1894, while superintendent of education of Wilcox county, which office he held from 1892 to 1896; was a member of the House of Representatives, 1896-98; a member of the State Senate, 1898-1900; and was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1901; and removed to Baldwin county, Feb. 1902. He is a Democrat; a member of the Methodist Protestant Church; also of the Knights of Pythias; and is unmarried.
Source: Owen, Thomas McAdory. Alabama Official and Statistical Register, 1903. Montgomery, AL: State of Alabama, Dept. of Archives and History, 1913. Print.
Transcribed by Dawn Conway, April 2009