CHARLES JENKINS
Charles Jenkins of Pottawatomie county was born in Oneida county, New York, in the year 1805. He lived there
a number of years and then moved to Lassalle county, Illinois. In the spring of 1855 he settled in Pottawatomie
county, Kansas. He died in April 1873 near Westmoreland, Kansas. (Transactions of the Kansas State Historical Society
1907-1908, Vol. X, edited by Geo. W. Martin, Secretary, State Printing Office, Topeka, 1908, page 211)
ANDREW J. MEAD
Andrew J. Mead, member of the free-state legislature for Riley and Pottawatomie counties, was born about 1819 and
reared in New York city. He came to Kansas from Cincinnati Ohio, in 1866, for the Cincinnati & Kansas Land
Company, of which he was a member, to locate a town site. He brought with him a surveyor and located the town of
Manhattan, of which he was the first mayor. He was nominated state treasurer by the free-state delegate convention,
December 28, 1867, and was elected under the Lecompton constitution, January 4,1868, by a majority of 371 votes
over Thomas J. B. Cramer, pro-slavery. He signed the call for the railroad convention of 1860, and was a member
of that body from Riley County. In October 1868, Mr. Mead left Kansas for New Orleans, finally settling in New
York City. He was an ardent free-state sympathizer, and did much effective work for the cause. Mr. Mead died at
Yonkers, N. Y., Saturday, November 12, 1904, in his eighty-ninth year. (Transactions of the Kansas State Historical
Society 1907-1908, Vol. X, edited by Geo. W. Martin, Secretary, State Printing Office, Topeka, 1908, page 205)
