Charles Augustus Jenks and Kate E. Empfield

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Husband Charles Augustus Jenks ¹

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           Born: 3 May 1869 - Punxsutawney, Jefferson Co, PA 1
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         Father: John W. Jenks, Jr. (1823-Bef 1906) 1 2
         Mother: Eliza Richey (      -1897) 1 2

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       Marriage: 7 Apr 1897 3

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Wife Kate E. Empfield ³

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         Father: Isaac Empfield (      -      ) 3
         Mother: Clarissa [Unk] (      -      ) 1

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General Notes: Husband - Charles Augustus Jenks

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He was educated mainly in the schools of his town, graduating from the High School in 1887. He then pursued some advanced studies under private instruction, and also taught at various times as a supply in the public schools before engaging in business. From 1888 to 1894 he was employed in the freight office of the P. & N. W. R. R., his work being interrupted by his appointment by President Cleveland on February 16, 1894, to the office of post-master. He was the youngest third-class post-master in the United States, at that time.
In political faith, Mr. Jenks was always a Democrat, but never aspired to official honors, and never held any public office until he was chosen to be post-master.
At the age of eighteen he united with the C. P. Church, and when only twenty was made an elder. After that time he served almost continuously as clerk of the session. It is a notable coincidence that his grandfather was the first elder ever installed in that Church.

1 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1278.

2 —, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Company, 1917), Pg 38.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Northern Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 243.