JENKS
JENKS
college, Castleton, Vt., in 1855 ; and also received
the degree of M.D. from the Bellevue Hospital
Medical college, New York city, in 1864. He set-
tled in Detroit, Mich., and was one of the found-
ers of the Detroit Medical college in 1868, and its
president and professor of obstetrics and surgical
diseases of women, until he resigned to accept a
similar position in the Chicago Medical college.
He was professor of diseases of women at Bowdoin
college, 1871-75. He was married in 1859 to Julia,
daughter of J. H. Darling of Warsaw, N.Y.; and
secondly in 1867 to Sarah R. , the eldest daughter of
the Hon. James F. Joy of Detroit. His son, Nathan
Jenks, also followed the medical profession. He
was elected a member of the American Medical
association ; of the Michigan State Medical society,
and its jiresident in 1873 ; a fellow of the Loudon
Obstetrical society ; honorary member of the
Maine Medical association and of the Ohio State
Medical society ; fellow of the American Gyne-
cological society, and of the Detroit Academy of
Medicine ; honorary member of the Toledo Med-
ical association, and corresponding and acting
member of many other medical associations.
He was for a number of years surgeon to St.
Luke's, St. Mary's and the Woman's hospitals of
Detroit, and surgeon to the Michigan Central
railroad. Albion college conferred upon him the
degree of LL.D. in 1878. He is the author of
several important works on gynecology and
kindred subjects, associate author of American
System of Practical Medicine (1885-87) ; axid Amer-
ican System of Gynecology (1887) , and contributed
numerous articles to professional periodicals.
JENKS, Qeorge Augustus, representative, was born at Punxsutawney, Pa., March 26, 1836 ; son of John W. and Mary D. (Barclay) Jenks. While working as a clerk, carpenter and joiner, and school teacher, he prepared for college, and was graduated from Jefferson college, Pennsyl- vania, in 1858. He was admitted to the bar in February, 1859, and practised at Brookville. He was Democratic representative from the 25th Pennsylvania district in the 44th congress, 1875-77. He was elected by the house of representatives as one of the managers of the Belknai? impeach- ment ; was appointed by the Democratic caucus with David D. Field and J. Randolph Tucker to represent the Democracy before the electoral commission ; was nominated for the supreme court of Pennsylvania in 1880 ; was U.S. assistant secretary of the interior, 1885-86 ; solicitor- general of the United States, 1886-89 ; Democratic nominee for governor of Pennsylvania, 1898, and nominee of the Democratic members of the Pennsylvania legislature for U.S senator in 1899. JENKS, Jeremiah Whipple, economist, was born at St. Clair, Mich., Sept. 2, 1856 ; son of Benjamin Lane and Amanda (Messer) Jenks, and
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grandson of Jeremiah Whipple and Hester (Lane)
Jenks and of James and Lucy (Eaton) Messer.
His ancestor, Joseph Jenks, emigrated from Eng-
land to America in 1642 and established tlie iron
and steel works in Lynn, Mass. Jeremiah was
educated at the pub-
lic schools of St.
Clair, and was gradu-
ated from the Uni-
versity of Michigan,
A.B., 1878, A.M., 18-
79. He was professor
of ancient languages
at Mount Morris col-
lege, 111., 1879-82;
studied law, and was
admitted to the bar
in 1881. He was a
student in Halle,
Germany, 1883-85,
where he received
the degree Ph.D. in
1885 ; teacher of English at Peoria high school,
111., 1885-86 ; professor of political science and
English literature at Knox college, Galesburg,
111., 1886-89; professor of political economy and
social science at the Indiana State university,
1889-91 ; professor of political and social institu-
tions at Cornell university, 1891-92 ; was made
head of the department of political science, in-
cluding economics, politics and social science in
1893, and spent the year 1892-93 in Europe in
special study of European political methods. He
was expert agent of the United States industrial
commission, 1899-1900, and directed the investi-
gation of trusts and industrial combinations, and
in this work he compiled and edited the laws of
the United States concerning monopolies and
digested the decisions under them, and also edited
the testimony before the U.S. industrial com-
mission, 1898-1900. As an expert in economics
and politics he was requested by state officials to
take an active part in drafting bills on taxation ;
stock companies, and city government in both
Indiana and New York. He is the author of :
Henry C. Carey als Nationalokonom (1885) ; Road
Legislation for the American State (1889) ; The
Trust Problem (1900), and contributions to cyclo-
paedias, reviews and magazines in Germany, Eng-
land and America, articles on trusts, monoijolies,
the money question and political methods. He
was married, Aug. 28, 1884, to Georgia, daughter
of George Washington and Susannah (Stoner)
Bixler, of Bedford, Pa.
JENKS, John Whipple Potter, naturalist, was born in West Boylston, Mass., May 1, 1819 ; son of Dr. Nicholas and Betsey (Potter) Jenks ; grand- son of Nicholas Jenks, of Brookfield, Mass., and a descendant of Joseph Jenks, of Buckinghamshire,
