JENKINS, W. T., M. D.; MS., then Acadia Parish, Louisiana --------------------------------------------------------------- Submitted for the LA GenWeb Archives by Mike Miller, Oct. 1998 --------------------------------------------------------------- * ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ************************************************ W. T. JENKINS, M. D., PRUDHOMME CITY.--W. T. Jenkins was born in Mississippi, February, 1839. He is the son of Rev. David B. and Susan (Gordon) Jenkins, natives of South Carolina and Georgia, respectively. His parents were married in Georgia, and removed from there to Mississippi in 1820, where Mr. Jenkins engaged in farming. He was a minister of the Baptist church. He died in 1835, his wife surviving him until 1876. The subject of this sketch is one of a family of nine children, six brothers and three sisters. He received the benefits of a good literary education, and graduated in the medical school of the University of Louisiana, in 1850. He began practice in 1852 in Mississippi. He was married the same year to Miss E. A. Dodds. The Doctor removed from Mississippi to Louisiana in 1866, and located on Bayou Teche, where he practised [sic] medicine for five years, when he removed to Prudhomme City, in 1871. Here he has practised his profession, and has also conducted a large plantation, consisting of about one thousand acres of land, three hundred of which he cultivates in rice and other products. The Doctor raised this year (1890) four thousand barrels of rice. He and wife are the parents of eleven children, seven sons and four daughters, five of whom are living: William D., Dr. W. A., Emma, wife of Benjamin Stagg; Dora, and Ida, wife of C. J. Hundley. Mr. Jenkins and wife are Baptists. Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p. 266. Edited by William Henry Perrin. Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing Company. # # #