Hallett Howland "Dick" Jenkins 1876-1908

JENKINS, SMITH, DAY

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 6/15/2015 at 22:02:11

“Dick” Jenkins Dies Suddenly at Fargo
Word was received as we go to press of the sudden and unexpected death of H.H. Jenkins at Fargo, N. Dak., which occurred at about 3 o’clock Thursday [August 20, 1908] afternoon, he having dropped dead on the streets of Fargo.

Mr. Jenkins was the son of M.M. Jenkins, of Sherburn. He was at one time engaged in the real estate business in Sherburn, but for the past several years has been located at Fargo, where he was not only extensively engaged in the real estate business but owned and controlled a line of elevators out of that city. – Welcome Tribune (Estherville Democrat, Estherville, IA, August 26, 1908)

H.H. [Hallett Howland] Jenkins, well known in southern Minnesota having formerly lived at Sherburn where his parents, Mr. and Mrs. M.M. Jenkins yet reside, a leading and notably successful business man of Fargo, N.D., was stricken with heart failure at Duluth Friday [August 21, 1908] and expired soon after being taken to a hospital. He was accompanied by his wife [Eva M. Smith Jenkins] and a physician, they being en route to Isle Royale hoping that needed rest and respite from business would restore him to health. He was held in the highest esteem for the nobility of his character, his manliness and genial nature and for his loyalty to friends and every trust. He was about 32 years of age and was a nephew of Mr. and Mrs. Day of the Standard domestic family. Besides his afflicted wife, his parents, a brother and a sister survive him. (Albert Lea Freeborn County Standard, Albert Lea, MN, August 26, 1908)

Dick Jenkins Dies At Duluth
Drops Dead on the Pier as He Was Starting For Isle Royal
A message was received in Fairmont Thursday [August 20, 1908] night that Dick Jenkins had dropped dead at Duluth, but no further particulars were given. His sister, Miss Hope Jenkins of Sherburn, was visiting at the home of Frank A Day of Merriam Park, and on receiving the sad news, she departed the same night by way of Albert Lea for her home. She was seen by the writer at the train as it passed through Fairmont Friday forenoon. All she knew of the sad affair was that her brother in company with his wife a doctor and wife from Fargo were about to take a boat at Duluth for a trip to Isle Royal when Mr. Jenkins dropped dead on the pier.

The young man was 33 years of age and the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. M.M. Jenkins of Sherburn. He was married about three years ago and lived at Fargo. For some time he had not been in the best of health, suffering from stomach trouble. It is supposed that death resulted from heart disease.

Dick Jenkins was a splendid man with high ideals – kind-hearted, industrious and generous almost to a fault. He has many warm friends in the country who will sorrow as for a relative on learning of his untimely death. – Fairmont Sentinel. (Vindicator and Republican, Estherville, IA, September 2, 1908)

Note: per ancestry.com, dob October 22, 1875, Fairmont, MN; per MN marriage record, and gravestone, born in 1876

Duluth – H. H. Jenkins, a prominent business man of Fargo, and a nephew of Frank A. Day, private secretary to Gov. J.A. Johnson, was stricken with heart disease as he was taking the boat for Isle Royale. (Albert Lea Freeborn County Standard, Albert Lea, MN, September 2, 1908)