Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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John W. Jenks, Jr. and Eliza Richey




Husband John W. Jenks, Jr. 1 2

           Born: 13 Jul 1823 - Punxsutawney, Jefferson Co, PA 2
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           Died: Bef 1906
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         Father: Dr. John Wildman Jenks (1793-1850) 3 4
         Mother: Mary Dey Barclay (1798-Aft 1850) 3 5


       Marriage: 



Wife Eliza Richey 1 2

           Born:  - Armstrong Co, PA
     Christened: 
           Died: 17 Aug 1897 1 2
         Buried: 


Children
1 M William Jenks 2

           Born:  - Punxsutawney, Jefferson Co, PA
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           Died: 
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2 M Charles Augustus Jenks 1

           Born: 3 May 1869 - Punxsutawney, Jefferson Co, PA 1
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           Died: 
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         Spouse: Kate E. Empfield (      -      ) 6
           Marr: 7 Apr 1897 6


3 F Mary C. Jenks 7

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         Spouse: James Irvin Mabon, M.D. (1858-      ) 7
           Marr: 3 Oct 1883 7



General Notes: Husband - John W. Jenks, Jr.


He read medicine in his early life, but never followed the profession to any extent, preferring a business life. He owned and operated a tannery which was one of the prosperous industrial plants at Punxsutawney, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, in his active years, giving most of his attention to its management. Though possessed of notable ability and executive capacity, he cared nothing for the glory of conspicuous service; but led a quiet life, in the course of which he made many friends.


General Notes: Wife - Eliza Richey


She died after several years' illness, having never entirely recovered from the effects of a stroke of paralysis in 1893.

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Sources


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 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1140.

4 —, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Company, 1917), Pg 10, 14, 37.

5 —, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Company, 1917), Pg 10, 37.

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

7 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 448.


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