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Author: Arthur P. Rose (1908)

  W. W. JENKINS. In only a few of the townships of Nobles county are there any

great number of the pioneer settlers left. In Indian Lake, Bigelow and Little

Rock they are to be found in greatest numbers, and among those in the last named

is W. W. Jenkins, the subject of this biography. He has resided on his

homestead, the northwest quarter of section 32, ever since the spring of 1872.



  Mr. Jenkins was born in Mercer county, Ill., on Oct. 16, 1844, the son of

Sylvester and Rebecca (Watson) Jenkins. Sylvester Jenkins was born in Boston,

but moved to Mercer county, Ill., in an early day and was one of the pioneers of

that section of the state. He homesteaded in Nobles county in 1872 and resided

in Little Rock township until 1894, when he moved to Kansas. After a six years'

residence there he moved to Arkansas, where he now lives at the age of 87 years.

Our subject's mother died in Mercer county in 1850.



  In the county of his birth Mr. Jenkins lived until he came to Nobles county.

He enlisted in company C, 16th Illinois volunteer infantry, Jan. 13, 1864, and

served eighteen months in the first brigade of the second division of the

fourteenth army corps, being discharged at Louisville, Kentucky, July 8, 1865.

He was in General Sherman's army and was with the forces of that command all the

way from Chattanooga to the close. He participated in the grand review at

Washington after the close of the war.



  In the spring of 1872 Mr. Jenkins, accompanied by his wife and two children,

drove through from Mercer county, Ill., to Nobles county. He took his homestead

in Little Rock township and has always lived on it since. His first home in the

new country was a sod house, in which he lived seven years. He then bought the

old school house of district 14—one of the first erected on the prairie—and made

his home in that until 1898, when he erected his. present home.



  Mr. Jenkins was married at Aledo, Mercer county, Ill., Aug. 10, 1869, to Miss

Sarah M. Boynton, a native of Maine. To them have been born the following named

children: Lucy (deceased), Addie (Mrs. John Webber), Charles, Nancy (deceased),

Nettie (deceased), Vinnie (Mrs. August Nienkerk), Arthur and Luther (twins),

Lottie (Mrs. Frank Nienkerk), and George. Mr. Jenkins is a member of the G. A. R.



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AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF NOBLES COUNTY

MINNESOTA

BY

ARTHUR P. ROSE



NORTHERN HISTORY PUBLISHING COMPANY 

WORTHINGTON, MINNESOTA 

PUBLISHERS

1908

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