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Louisa y., b. April 10, 1854.
Lois A., b. Jan. 10, 1862 ; a graduate at the Newport high school; a teacher.
LEVI HURD, S. of Nathan and Ruth (Labree) Hurd ; b. Sept. 30, 1780 ; lived on the I. B. Hurd farm on East mountain ; d. June 2, 1854. M., Feb. 19, 1806, Anna Bradley, of Haverhill, Mass., who d. Sept. 22, 1856, aged 70 years.
+ Moses, b. Nov. 23, 1806. Louisa, b. Feb. 1, 1811.
tIsaac B., b. June 28, 1815. Marinda, b. Jan. 14, 1819.
+Rial, b. Jan. 31, 1826.
MOSES HURD, S. of Levi ; b. Nov. 23, 1806 ; lived at the H. B. Barton place, on the Goshen road ; moved to Springfield, Vt., where he now resides. M., Nov. 7, 1833, Caroline Bas- com, dau. of Reuben, b. Feb. 18, 1807.
Asenath L., b. Oct., 1834; m., Nov., 1856, Daniel E. Carr; went to California.
tLoren Bascom, b. Aug. 29, 1836.
Caroline V., b. April 21, 1840; m., Oct. 31, 1858, George Rockwell, of Springfield, Vt.
LOREN BASCOM HURD, s. of Moses Hurd; b. Aug. 29, 1836 ; removed to Springfield, Vt., where he has been a valu- able citizen, and where he is now post-master. M., June 4, IS67, Ellen Louisa Hazard, b. Aug. 9, 1842, at Annapolis, Maryland.
Ora Ella, b. Aug. 11, 1869. Ray L., b. May 17, 1876.
ISAAC B. HURD, S. of Levi and Anna (Bradley) Hurd ; b. June 28, 1815 ; a wealthy farmer ; r. for many years on East mountain, when he sold out, and came to the village ; m. Em- eline Dow.
Carleton, b. Oct. 7, 1842; commenced the druggist business in Eagle block, in the store with Ira P. George. He soon, however, pur- chased the entire stock, and removed to his present block, where he has a successful trade. M., Jan. 3, 1871, Marietta Garfield, of Claremont.
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Nancy M., b. Jan. 7, 1845; m., July 1, 1876, Wallace W. White. Elizabeth A., b. April 5, 1848; m., Sept. 1, 1865, Dennis J. Gardner.
RIAL HURD, S. of Levi ; b. Jan. 31, 1826 ; a prosperous farm- er ; lives on the Dea. Phineas Chapin farm, in the west part of the town ; m. Elvina Woods ; m., 2d, Emily, dau. of John Page.
Anna C., b. April 16, 1858.
Charles R., b. Oct. 3, 1863.
Nellie E., b. April 29, 1868.
DAVID HURD, S. of Nathan and Ruth (Labree) Hurd ; b. Tan. 28, 1784; built the house since occupied for many years by I. B. Hurd, on East mountain ; m., Nov. 23, 1807, Sally Robinson, of Pembroke, b. July 1, 1786.
Lucinda, b. Aug. 30, 1808. Mary, b. April 8, 1812. Harvey, b. Feb. 22, 1818.
Nathan, b. Jan. 9, 1815.
Orren, b. April 7, 1820. Cyrus, b. June 26, 1822.
Alvah, b. May 2, 1824. Philenus, b. Jan. 9, 1827.
MOSES HURD, a farmer ; b. Dec. 13, ISOS, at Lebanon ; came to this town from Croydon in 1834. . He spent a few years on Pike hill, but soon after, in 1842, purchased his farm on the Unity road, where he resided until his death, which occurred Feb. 22, 1869. Married Adelia D., dau. of Bazaleel Barton, of Croydon.
Melissa A., b. 1836; d. May, 1841.
Sumner F., b. 1838; was for a while clerk at Lebanon; went to Boston, where he enlisted, and was with the 6th Mass. Regt. when mobbed at Baltimore ; was in the 5th N. H. Regt., where he was 2d Lieut. in Co. E; was six weeks in Libby prison ; m., 1869, Henrietta C. Elliott, of Baltimore; ch., Anna M., Mary, Josephine, Sumner W., Edward Elliott; r. in Vineland, N. J.
Jennie H., b. April 11, 1840; m., Dec. 12, 1876, Eugene A. Paul, s. of Avor. Ch., Eugene Ralph, b. Jan. 9, 1878.
Melissa M., b. Aug. 9, 1842; m., Jan., 1860, Ira P. Smith, of Langdon. Ziba, b. July 27, 1844 ; d. Jan., 1845.
Lewis }., b. Sept. 10, 1846; was at the battle of Fredericksburg ; d. Dec. 24, 1862.
Horace E., a trader here; b. Oct. 4, 1853; m., May 30, 1876, Nettie Prouty, of Hardwick, Mass. Ch., Cuthbert, b. July, 1878.
INGRAM.
OSHA INGRAM, a clothier and manufacturer ; settled here about IS20 ; d. June 29, 1857, aged 62. M., Aug. 9, 1821, Mary
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Briggs, of Massachusetts, who d. Oct. 5, 1825 ; m., 2d, Oct. 10, 1826, Ann Roberts, of Hartford, Conn., who d. Aug. 8, 1860.
Adolphus, b. July 5, 1823 ; m. Mary A. Tarlton, of Amherst.
Mary B., b. Sept. 21, 1825 ; m. Bela G. Jones.
Elisha R., b. Oct. 7, 1827; d. Apr. 14, 1832.
George M., b. June 24, 1830. Martha S., b. Sept. 23, 1833.
+Henry M., b. May 23, 1836. + Arthur H., b. June 16, 1839.
HENRY M. INGRAM, s. of Osha Ingram ; b. May 23, 1836; m. Clarinda George, of Acworth. He has for many years been one of the overseers in Sugar River Mills.
George H., b. Sept. 16, 1859. Charles S., b. Sept. 20, 1860. Frank A., b. July 10, 1872 ; d. young.
ARTHUR H. INGRAM, s. of Osha Ingram ; b. June 16, 1839. He was register of deeds for Sullivan county for several years ; is a fine penman. He was clerk in the store of Averill & Bart- lett. M., June 1, 1865, Hattie A. Maxfield, of Goshen.
Arthur F. and Alvah F., twins, b. Sept. 9, 1868.
Katie S., b. May 17, 1874 ; d. young.
INGHAM.
EDWARD INGIIAM, b. Apr. 16, 1821 ; was educated at Nor wich, Vt. ; came from Croydon in 1848, and settled on the F. M. Cutting farm at Kelleyville. He was a superintending school committee, and a successful teacher. He was after- wards in trade at Lebanon, at Keene, and at Springfield, Vt. While at the latter place, in 1870, he was appointed superin- tendent of the N. H. State Reform School. He discharged the duties of this position with such marked success that the trustees of the reform school at Meriden, Conn., induced him, by the proffer of a greatly augmented salary, to take charge of that institution. At the end of two years he resigned his trust there, and removed to St. Paul, Minn., his present residence. M., Mar. 6, 1844, Lucy Putnam, dau. of Col. Nathaniel Wheeler, of Croydon ; m., 2d, May 20, 1853, Marinda D. Potter, of Leb- anon.
Helen, b. Mar. 8, 1849 ; d. Dec. 12, 1853.
Lucy Isabel, b. Feb. 3, 1853 ; d. young. Edward, b. Dec. 5, 1855 ; graduated, 1877, at Dartmouth college. Nellie, b. Jan. 1, 1858 ; educated at New London academy.
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INGALLS.
SYLVESTER S. INGALLS, b. May 28, 1839, at Goshen : came to this town in 1855. He is a joiner, having learned his trade of B. M. Gilmore, and is among our finest workmen. M., Dec. 1, 1858, Marietta Emery Dean, dau. of Solomon Dean ; m., 2d, Aug., 1876, Adeline Hall.
Josephine A., b. Aug. 30, 1859; m., Nov. 21, 1875, William Thomp- son, of Lynn, Mass. ; lives at Pittsfield.
Edgar Solomon, b. July 11, 1863 ; d. June 30, 1868.
JACOBS.
ELI JACOBS, S. of Whitman Jacobs, of Croydon ; settled on the place now vacant, just north of the C. C. Shedd farm. He moved to Vermont. Married Jerusha Whipple.
JACKSON.
MILTON S. JACKSON, b. Apr. 3, 1844 ; came to this town from Lebanon in 1865, and was in trade for several years with Chester Averill, at Wheeler's block, since which he has been a deputy sheriff, and is now in the livery business. He was three years in the war; was a candidate for sheriff in 187S. M., Jan. 1, 1865, Sarah Edson, of Claremont, b. Aug. 13, IS48. Charles M., b. Nov. 23, 1867.
JENKS. *
This family is descended from the Welsh, or ancient Britons. Robert Jenkes was of Wolverton (manor), parish of Eaton- under-Eywood, Shropshire, in the reign of Edward III. Herbert Jenks, Esq., possessed Wolverton about 1640, and his estate fell to his heirs by a daughter. From this ancestry was Joseph Jenks,1 founder and machinist, of Hammersmith, England, b. in 1602. He was " a very ingenious man," and was induced
* This surname is found spelled Jenks, Jinks, Jynks, Jenkes, Jencks, and Jenckos. Some of these methods have arisen from careless spelling, the result of false pronunciation. The signa- tures of different members of the same family, as well as in some individual cases, in this coun- try, are found to be Jenks, Jencks, and Jenckes. Joseph, Sen.,1 spelled fenks ; Joseph, Jr.,2 Fenckes. Their descendants chiefly folow the first method. Jeremiah's® signatures were Fenks until his later years, when his signature is found to be fenckes, the method adopted by his sons. His grandsons, however, have chiefly followed the first or simplor method. 28
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by Gov. Winthrop, 2d, to establish " the iron and steel works" in Lynn, Mass., about 1642, the first worker in iron and brass in America. Joseph,2 b. in Eng., in 1632, followed his father to Lynn about 1647 ; m. Esther Ballard, of Lynn, b. in Eng. in 1633 ; went to Providence, R. I., and established himself in his father's line of business at Pawtucket Falls, founding the city of that name. Nathaniel,8 of Providence, b. in 1662, m. Hannah Bosworth. Jonathan,4 of Providence, m. Mary Slack, of Scituate. Jonathan,5 of Cumberland, m. Hannah Pullen.
JEREMIAH JENKS,6 mariner and farmer ; s. of Jonathan5 and Hannah (Pullen) Jenks ; was b. in Smithfield, R. I., Nov. 29, 1739, and came to Newport prior to the Revolutionary war. A deed from James Sheldon to him, bearing date Jan. 24, 1771, attests the purchase of " one share, of 340 acres, on east side of Connecticut river (Newport)," one sixty-eighth part of its ter- ritory. In a deed of land purchased by him in "Saville," July 2, 1773, he is described as "late of Smithfield, R. I., now of Newport." Feb. 25, 1776, he m. Lucy Whipple, of Cumber- land, R. I., b. April 16, 1746. Tradition says they arrived in Newport, with their household goods, July 4, 1776, and first established themselves on what is known as the Parmelee place, on the south road. In 1776 Mr. Jenks's name appears third on the list of signers of the "Association Test," which was circu- lated for signatures at the request of the Committee of Safety for the colony. At a meeting of the inhabitants, July 24, 1776, he was chosen lieutenant of the Newport volunteers, and was of those who left, June 9, 1777, to take part in the capture of Ticonderoga. July 10, of the same year, he was one of a com- mittee of three to fix the value of farm products, which schedule of prices was to be used as a basis of exchange in lieu of money. In March, 1791, he was elected selectman ; and Nov. 7, of the same year, he was one of a committee of five to superintend the building of the Congregational meeting-house, which for thirty years served that society, and stood near the foot of Claremont hill. Between 1778 and 1792 he made purchases of land from Josiah Stevens, Aaron Buell, James Church, Israel Bryan, Uriah Wilcox, Nathan Fisher, and Stephen Perry, by which he became the largest landholder in the town ; in 1802 he was
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the heaviest tax-payer in Newport. He gave a farm of more than one hundred acres to each of three sons, the homestead of two hundred acres to a fourth, and a forty-acre lot of land to each of three daughters. Mr. Jenks was of unusual stature, as were three of his sons. He was several inches over six feet in height, with a corresponding muscular development. His wife and three of her daughters were nearly, if not quite, six feet tall. He d. Jan. 4, IS11 ; his wife survived him until May 19, 1819.
Hannah, b. March 22, 1777 ; m., May 26, 1803, Col. James D. Walcott, of Cumberland, R. I .; d. in Newport, Sept. 2, 1823.
Nancy, b. March 7, 1779; m., April 10, 1796, Dr. Abiel Ledoyt ; d. Dec. 4, 1829. Ch., Albinus ; d. young.
tJeremiah Whipple, b. June 11, 1780.
tOliver, b. Feb. 13, 1782.
Lucy, b. March 15, 1783; m., Jan. 22, 1805, Asa Corbin, of Newport : d. in childbirth, Jan. 4, 1806, mother and child being buried in the same grave.
t Bela Whipple, b. March 12, 1785. t Thomas Bowen, b. Oct. 8, 1786. Betsey, b. March 9, 1789; d. Feb. 23, 1790.
JEREMIAH WHIPPLE JENCKES, S. of Jeremiah and Lucy (Whipple) Jenks, b. June 11, 1780. He received a farm of 100 acres from his father, which is now owned by A. P. Wellcome, at junction of the Cornish & Croydon turnpikes. He r. there until 1815, then disposed of his property, and moved to Brid- port, Vt., and purchased a fine farm overlooking Lake Cham- plain. Two years later he removed to Crown Point, N. Y., and engaged in lumbering and farming, where he spent the re- mainder of his life. He m., Jan. 26, 1803, Hester, dau. of Rob- ert Lane, of Newport, and sister of the distinguished physician and surgeon, Dr. Robert Lane, late of Sutton. She was b. Jan. 2, 1784 ; d. Oct. 24, 1850. He d. Aug. 12, 1852.
Arzelia, b. March 3, 1804 ; d. Feb. 13, 1814.
Lucy Corbin, b. Jan. 10, 1806; d. Jan. 24, 1806.
Nancy, b. Aug. 21, 1807 ; d. Aug. 31, 1807.
Hester Amelia, b. Dec. 22, 1808 ; m., Oct. 23, 1834, Royal Stowell, of Crown Point, N. Y. In 1856 they moved to St. Clair, Michigan. She d. Feb. 23, 1877. Ch., Sarai, b. 1835; Asa R., b. March, 1837.
Jeremiah, b. in Newport, N. H., Dec. 13, 1810; went with his parents to Bridport and Crown Point; in 1853 removed to Michigan, and engaged in lumbering for many years on the shores of Lake Huron. He is the senior member of the firm of J. Jenks & Co., Sand Beach,
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Mich., manufacturers of salt and flour, and dealers in general mer- chandise. He also farms extensively, and has been very success- ful in his business undertakings. From 1861 to 1864 he was inspector of customs, and two years deputy collector of internal revenue. He was a member of the Michigan state senate in 1875 and 1876. He m., Sept. 10, 1837, Relief Huestis ; m., 2d, April 29, 1874, Aman- da (Messer) Jenks, widow of Benj. L. Jenks. Ch., George Wal- ton, b. May 9, 1838 ; Mary Elizabeth, b. Sept. 15, 1846.
Fesse Lane, b. in Newport, April 8, 1813. In the early part of life he engaged in farming. In 1860 he moved from Crown Point, N. Y., to Michigan and engaged in the hotel and livery business, which he followed to the close of his life. He m., Oct. 6, 1848, Jane Mi- nor, by whom he had two children; m., 2d, April 5, 1856, Mary Martin, who had four children. He d. March 16, 1876. Ch., Bela Whipple, b. July 18, 1849. Robert H., b. June 19, 1851 ; d. Oct. 10, 1854. Helen, b. April 19, 1858 ; d. April 24, 1862. Robert M., b. Aug. 18, 1859. Jennie, b. Jan. 25, 1861. William, b. Aug. 2, 1863.
Arzelia, b. July 10, 1815 ; m., March, 1849, George G. Hewitt ; d. May 5, 1850. Ch., Arzelia A., b. May 5, 1850.
Lucy Ann, b. May 2, 1817 ; m., June 29, 1837, Simon Beckwith, and went to Michigan in 1856. Ch., Charles, b. May 7, 1838; Benja- min J. ; Arzelia J.
Benjamin Lane, b. at Crown Point, N. Y., April 25, 1820; moved to Michigan in 1856, and engaged in farming and lumbering all his life. He held several offices of trust in his town. He m., March 8, 1849, Amanda Messer. He d. Dec. 10, 1868. Ch., James Mes- ser, b. July 14, 1850; Robert Henry, b. July 26, 1854 ; Jeremiah Whipple, b. Sept. 2, 1856; Hester Pamelia, b. Dec. 12, 1858 ; Mar- tin Lane, b. July 15, 1861.
Bela Whipple, b. at Crown Point, N. Y., June 6, 1824. On passing his majority, he went to Michigan; is a farmer, and is a partner with his brother, Robert H. Jenks, in a general mercantile busi- ness in St. Clair; has held several town and city offices, and has twice been elected a state senator. He m., Nov. 3, 1853, Sarah Carleton. Ch., Charles Carleton, b. Aug. 24, 1854 ; William Lee, b. Dec. 27, 1856; Mary Eliza, b. Jan. 4, 1859; Anna Barnard, b. July 29, 1861 ; Frank Dike, b. March 11, 1864; Russ Stowell, b. June 10, 1867 ; George Sandford, b. Sept. 11, 1869.
Robert Henry, b. at Crown Point, April 28, 1827; went to Michigan in 1851 ; a farmer, and is engaged in general mercantile business ; has been post-master at St. Clair twelve years, and president and treas- urer of the Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance Co. ten years. He m., April 13, 1854, Mary S. Clarke. Ch., Sarah Helen, b. April 17, 1855 ; d. Aug. 18, 1856. Emeline Clarke, b. June 13, 1857. Her- bert Lind, b. Oct. 26, 1859; d. Oct. 16, 1873. Lucy Arzelia, b. Sept. 4, 1861. Ella Amanda, b. Sept. 3, 1863 ; d. Sept. 28, 1864. Helen Clarke, b. Aug. 3, 1865. John Henry, b. Dec. 4, 1866. Ben Lane, b. June 13, 1869. Tubal Orren, b. Oct. 6, 1871.
OLIVER JENCKES, s. of Jeremiah ; b. Feb. 13, 1782 ; passed a portion of his boyhood with his uncle, Oliver Whip- ple, at Hampton and Portsmouth, where some educational
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advantages were obtained. He received the homestead farm, one of the largest and best in town, and was successful in its management. He was frequently called to official position from IS14 to the year of his death. He was selectman ten years ; five times moderator ; representative to the legislature in 1828 and 1829 ; and agent to divide the town into school districts, and to lay out and build roads. Mr. Jenckes, as a member of the building committee, bore an active part in erecting the Bap- tist meeting-house in the village, and entered earnestly into all enterprises looking to the benefit of the town. In 1812 and 1830 he was one of the ten heaviest tax-payers. Was a captain in the militia, and was a justice of the peace. M., March 9, ISog, Levina, dau. of Eleazer Jackson, of Cornish. He d. Sept. 17, 1837. His wife was b. Sept. 10, 1791, and d. Sept. 7, 1877, surviving her husband forty years. She lived to see ten of her children reach and pass middle life before death made a breach in their ranks. She was a generous and self-denying mother, and remarkable for her bountiful hospitality.
A son, b. and d. Jan. 17, 1810.
Lucy, b. July 29, 1811 ; educated at Newport and Hopkinton academies; was a teacher in Newport, and in Belvidere, N. J., for several years. She m., Dec. 10, 1846, Otis Withington, of Brookline, Mass., b. Aug. 30, 1801, d. March 5, 1873. She d. Jan. 1, 1879. Ch., Charles Francis, b. Aug. 21, 1852 ; a graduate of Harv. Coll. ; a successful teacher in the classical schools of Brookline and Rox- bury : is a graduate of Harvard Medical School.
Elizabeth Whipple, b. Dec. 6, 1812; educated at Newport and Hopkin- ton academies; was a teacher, and r. some years in Fredericks- burgh, Va .; r. at the homestead.
Henry Allen, b. March 20, 1814; educated at Chester (Vt.) academy. In Feb., 1836, after passing his majority, he engaged in agricul- tural pursuits in Rhode Island ; subsequently went to Illinois, and purchased a farm, which he occupied until the death of his father, when he returned to Newport and took charge of his mother's por- tion of the estate. He purchased the interests of the other heirs, and now owns the homestead. In 1858 he was elected selectman ; was one of the founders of the Newport Agricultural Association. and its treasurer two years ; is a deacon of the Baptist church, and one of its staunchest supporters.
Harriet, b. Sept. 20, 1815; remained at the homestead ; d. Dec. 13, 1872.
t Eleazer Jackson, b. March 3, 1817.
Oliver, b. Feb. 3, 1819; d. Feb. 20, 1819.
Oliver Bowen, b. Feb. 5, 1820; educated at Kimball Union Acad- emy : in 1840, went to Virginia and engaged in teaching. Having excellent musical abilities, he taught the cultivation of the voice,
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and gave instruction upon the piano, flute, and guitar. Before leaving Newport, he was a leader of the choir in the Baptist church. In 1844 he began the study of medicine with Dr. Twy- man, of Madison county, Va., and graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1855. He was twice chosen vice-president of the Virginia Medical Society, and was esteemed by his contempora- ries as eminent in his profession. May 4, 1858, he m. Laura Catharine, daughter of Dr. Twyman, who was b. July 15, 1833, and d. Nov. 16, 1875. He d. March 22, 1876. No children.
"Dr. Jenks," says Dr. Row, in announcing his death to the Medical Society, of which he was an active member and officer, " was in many respects a remarkable man, and in his life displayed as much energy and devotion in his profession as any practitioner I ever met. As a physician, he was accomplished and successful, proverbial for his kind and courteous demeanor towards his pro- fessional brethren, and urbanity to all. He was an active and consistent member of the Baptist church, and a devout Chris- tian." Dr. F. D. Cunningham, of Richmond, in an address as president of the Virginia Medical Society, says,-"Among the names of those we mourn, none will be heard with more regret than that of Dr. Oliver B. Jenks, a gentleman who manifested the liveliest interest in our society from its organization. Although himself a victim to ill-health, with the spirit of a true philanthro- pist he made use of knowledge acquired at the expense of great suffering in his own person for the benefit of others. Those of us who attended the meeting at Norfolk can hardly fail to remem- ber the extraordinary personal experience he then related, and the valuable conclusions he had deduced from it in regard to the use of chloroform in certain forms of heart disease. Our society never had a more ardent supporter, nor our members a better example." t Thomas, b. Nov. 13, 1822.
Albinus, b. July 15, 1824; m., May, 1870, Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Blake, who d. April 2, 1876; no children.
Levina, b. April 2, 1826; d. April 10, 1826. A son. b. and d. April 26, 1827. tGeorge Edwin, b. Sept. 9, 1828. t Edward Augustus, b. Oct. 30, 1830.
A son, b. and d. in March, 1832.
Charles William, b. May 4, 1833; d. March 19, 1834.
ELEAZER JACKSON JENKS, s. of Oliver and Levina (Jackson) Jenckes ; b. March 3, 1817. In September, 1839, he entered Concord academy, then taught by Charles Peabody, and spent three years as student, and in teaching in Massachusetts. In November, 1840, he walked from Concord to Newport to cast his first presidential vote for Gen. Harrison. In 1842 he en- gaged in trade in Rochester, N. Y., remaining there some five years. Returning to Massachusetts, he was employed five years as book-keeper in the Bank of Brighton. In 1853 he be- came cashier of the Woburn bank, where he remained eighteen
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years, when he resigned to enter into trade. In July, 1875; he became cashier of the Hopkinton National Bank and treasurer of the Hopkinton Savings Bank; has been engaged in the banking business twenty-seven years. He was a member of the Baptist church in Newport, and contributed the sum of $400 toward the expense of remodelling its house of worship. He m., June 26, 1844, Sarah Peabody, of Groton, Mass., by whom he had three children. She d. Oct. 21, 1852. M., 2d, June 26, 1860, Elvira Antoinette Wolcott, of Rochester, N. Y., who d. Sept. 24, 1865. M., 3d, Sept. 3, 1868, Mrs. Eliza W. (Perkins) Thomas, of Lynn, Mass.
Henry Francis, b. June 26, 1845 ; d. June 24, 1846.
William Edward, b. May 2, 1848 ; became clerk in the Woburn Bank in January, 1864; was messenger to the National Bank of North America, Boston, from April, 1870, to July, 1871 ; became cashier of the Hopkinton National Bank and treasurer of the Hopkinton Savings Bank in July, 1871 ; became discount clerk in the Shawmut National Bank, Boston. February, 1876. He m., Sept. 11, 1872, Elna Persson (b. in Sweden, Dec. 26, 1847), adopted dau. of Abijah W. Withington, of Boston. Ch., Mary Withington, b. July 10, 1873 ; d. March 6, 1876. Elizabeth Nixon, b. May 27, 1875. Marion Frances, b. April 28, 1877. Abbie Frances, b. Aug. 7, 1850.
THOMAS JENKS, S. of Oliver ; b. Nov. 13, 1822. After leav- ing the homestead, in 1841, he served several years with Gil- more & Walker, traders in Union Village, Vt., and afterwards engaged in trade at Thetford Hill and at Thetford Depot, Vt., and at North Woburn, Mass. Dec. S, 1851, he m. Henrietta, dau. of John Hall, of Union Village, Vt., where he now resides. His wife was b. Feb. 1, 1828, and d. Sept. S, 1856.
Ida Laura, b. Jan. 16, 1853. Alice Henrietta, b. May 23, 1855.
GEORGE EDWIN JENKS, S. of Oliver ; b. Sept. 9, 1828 ; was bred to the farm, and received common-school privileges, and one year's attendance at Thetford academy. May 26, 1845, he apprenticed himself to the printing business with Asa McFar- land, of Concord ; in June, 1850, he became a partner with his former employer. In July, 1851, they purchased the New Hampshire Statesman, and published it until Oct., 1871. Mr. Jenks was elected state printer for the years 1866 and 1867 ; he
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was representative in 1873 and 1874, and was chairman of sev- eral committees. He was author of the new constitutional amendment which secured the reduction of the house of repre- sentatives about one fourth from its former membership ; he is now (1879) auditor of state printer's accounts, trustee of the Concord public library, and secretary of Republican state com- mittee. [See Literature.] M., Jan. 23, 1855, Eliza Jane, dau. of Joseph Grover, of Concord, b. March 9, 1835.
Frank Bowen, b. Dec. 27, 1855 ; was in the employ of Lawrence & Co., Boston, as clerk and paymaster at their mills in Belmont, N. H., and in Ipswich, Mass., for about five years; is clerk in railroad treasurer's office, Boston.
Walter Lyon, b. April 12, 1862. Arthur Whipple, b. Aug. 9, 1863. Paul Rockwell, b. June 23, 1872.
EDWARD AUGUSTUS JENKS, S. of Oliver, was b. Oct. 30, 1830 ; spent the first fifteen years of his life at the homestead ; June 2, 1846, became an apprentice to Asa McFarland, printer, in Concord; at the close of his apprenticeship, he attended several terms at Thetford academy, Thetford, Vt., closing his connection with that institution in 1851. In April, 1852, he formed a copartnership with Joseph C. Abbott (afterwards U. S. Senator from North Carolina), and purchased the Manches- ter American, beginning his active business life in his 22d year, under the firm name of Abbott & Jenks. In 1856 he sold his interest in the American, and went to Lowell, Mass., where he resided two years. In 1858 he became a resident of New York city, where he was " proof-reader " in some of the largest pub- lishing houses there ; remained in that city until the spring of 1862, when he went to Cincinnati, Ohio, and became connected with the firm of Alexander Swift & Co., iron manufacturers, and contractors for the building of the monitors Catawba, One- ota, Klamath, and Yuma, for the government, where he re- mained until their completion and delivery to the Navy De- partment. At the conclusion of the war, he went to Vicks- burg, Miss., as the agent of John Swasey & Co., merchants of Cincinnati, for the purchase of cotton for shipment to Northern markets. The prosecution of his business took him to nearly all parts of the state, by rail, steamboat, and horseback, as well as to many of the neighboring states. In the preliminary work
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