POTTAWATOMIE COUNTY, KANSAS

BIOGRAPHIES

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)

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