Jefferson County Illinois Biographies

Biographical Memoirs of Gratiot County, Michigan: 
Compendium of Biography of - Page 159
by J. H. Beers & Co - Gratiot County (Mich.) 
Submitted By: Cindy Ford

GEORGE W. JENKINS, of Lafayette township, Gratiot county, is a well 
known and most highly esteemed farmer citizen of that section. He was born in 
Jefferson county, Illinois, June 10, 1858, son of James E. and Hannah (Gates) Jenkins, 
natives of New York, who had two children, George W,. being the eldejst. Up to his 
eighth year he was reared by his grandmother, Ann Jenkins, in St. Joseph county, 
Michigan, and in that year located in Clinton county, Michigan, living with his 
father and stepmother until he was thirteen years old. He then went to Roscommon 
county, Michigan, where he lived until he reached his majority, at that time locating 
in Gratiot county, purchasing forty acres of farm land in Lafayette township, where 
he has since resided. He has always followed farming, and now owns sixty acres, forty 
of which are under cultivation. 

Mr. Jenkins was married in North Star township, September 3, 1882, to Miss Jennie 
A. Marshall, who was born in Geauga county, Ohio, a daughter of Nathan N. and 
Hannah H. (Turner) Marshall. To Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins two children have been 
born: Charlotte, who died in Lafayette township in her fourteenth year; and Neil. 
Mr. Jenkins has taken a great degree of interest in all township affairs; he is a Democrat 
in political faith. 



 


 



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