Jenkins, Samuel S.

JENKINS, GRIER

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1880 History of Poweshiek County Iowa

LINCOLN TOWNSHIP

Page 757

JENKINS, SAMUEL S.--Section 2, P.O. Victor. His ancestors, on his father's side, came from Wales, and on his mother's, from Ireland. His father, who was born in Wales, December 16, 1805, came with his father to America about 1810, and setteld in Morgan county, Ohio, in the fall of 1812, traveling all the way from New York on a flat-boat. He married Isabel Murry (originally McMurry), a lady of Irish extraction, who was born in Pennsylvania, March 10, 1806. Samuel, one among several children, was born November 7, 1833, in Morgan county, Ohio, where he was raised a farmer boy and educated. He ceased working for his father when seventeen, and went into the employ of his older brother, William. He immigrated to this county in 1864, arriving at Victor September 2d, and immediately began farming, in which occupation he has been engaged ever since. He married, November 15, 1855, Mary A. Grier. She was born March 17, 1833. The fruits of their union have been: Lettie Jane (born February 26, 1857) and Charles Richard (born December 28, 1858). Mr. Jenkins is a general reader, a man of broad intelligence and information, and has traveled quite extensively. His home is a pleasant and cheerful one, echoing constantly with the voice of musical genius, marked by neatness, taste and refinement, and characterized by the purest, fullest and most congenial hospitality.