Bio: Jenkins, John H. (1867 - 1911)

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Surnames: Jenkins, Evans, Felix, Jones, Will, Bullen, Bartlett, Halsey, Hoge, Riehle, Paersch, Schartzl, Fiedler, Stark, Kreutzer, Ritter, Rogers, Lane

---Source: History of Marathon County Wisconsin and Representative Citizens, by Louis Marchetti, 1913.

Jenkins, John H. (25 May 1867 - 1911)

JOHN H. JENKINS, manager and one of the stockholders of the Marathon County Farmers Creamery Company, of which he was the main organizer, was born May 25, 1867, in Waukesha County, Wisconsin, and is a son of Howell and Elizabeth (Evans) Jenkins. The parents of Mr. Jenkins were born and reared in Wales and immediately after marriage they came to the United States, their objective point being Milwaukee, Wisconsin, which city they reached in the spring of 1852. Howell Jenkins worked there for three years as a carpenter and then bought farm land in Waukesha County, on which he and his wife spent the rest of their lives. They were estimable people and became parents of a large family, all of whom became respected members of their communities, namely: David; Margaret, who is the wife of Richard Felix; Evan; Mary, who is now deceased, was the wife of Daniel Felix; Howell; John H.; Elizabeth, who became the wife of Richard Jones; and Helen, who became the wife of Charles Will.

John H. Jenkins went to school more or less regularly until he was eighteen years of age, mainly in the winter time as his father needed his help on the farm in the summers, and when twenty-two years of age took charge of a farm owned by George Bullen of Chicago, situated near Oconomowoc, where he remained for four years and for five years afterward was manager for Mrs. J. T. Bartlett, whose estate adjoins the Bullen place. For ten years after coming to Marathon County he was on the Halsey farm, but in the meanwhile had bought land for himself, of which he took charge after leaving the Halsey farm. He owns one farm of eighty acres situated in the town of Rietbrok and another of eighty acres in the Town of Johnson, both of which he has rented to capable tenants. In March, 1906, the Marathon County Farmers' Creamery Company was organized with the following officers: John H. Jenkins, president and manager, and A. F. Hoge, secretary and treasurer. The present officers are: William Riehle, president; Rinehold Paersch, secretary; M. M. Schartzl, treasurer, and John H. Jenkins, manager. The following are the directors: Fred Hoge, August Fiedler, William Stark, John Kreutzer and Henry Ritter. The output of the plant is butter and cheese. This is an important business enterprise of this section, $60,000 being paid out yearly to the farmers for cream and milk.  

Mr. Jenkins was married in September, 1889, to Miss Lilly Rogers, whose twin sister, Ida, is the wife of Orlo Lane. Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins have nine children: Mary, Roger, Jesse, Fern, Howard, John, Edna, Florence and Christmas. Mr. Jenkins and family belong to the Presbyterian Church. In politics he is a Republican and has been clerk of the school board of his district since its organization. He is identified with the Modern Woodmen of America.  

Obit: Jenkins, John H. (25 May 1867 - 1911)

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Surnames: Jenkins Upham

----Source: Marshfield Times  Wednesday 14 June 1911  P. 1  C. 6

Jenkins, John H. (25 May 1867 - 1911)

Ex-Governor W. H. Upham went to Chippewa Falls Tuesday to attend the funeral of Judge John J. Jenkins, who died Sunday.  Judge Jenkins, former Congressman, and at the time of his death a federal judge in Porto Rico (sic), is one of the strong men of the state, an old time leader of the republican party.  He was at home on leave of absence at the time of his death.