Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Jenks, George A.
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Newtown Township


   GEORGE A. JENKS attorney-at-law, P.O. Newtown, is a son 
of the late Dr. Phineas and Amelia (Snyder) Jenks.  His 
father practiced medicine in Newtown for nearly fifty years. 
 He was a student of the celebrated Dr. Benjamin Rush.  He 
was a member of the constitutional convention of 1837-8.   
George A. was born in Newtown October 9, 1829.  His early 
education was received at the Newtown academy.  July 4, 
1850, he was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania.  
He read law with James C. Van Dyke, of Philadelphia, then 
United States district attorney.  April 16, 1853, he was 
admitted to practice in the district court and common pleas 
of Philadelphia.  After taking a full course in the law 
department of the University of Pennsylvania, on July 3, 
1853, the degrees of Master of Arts and Bachelor of Laws 
were conferred on him.  January 13, 1855, he was admitted to 
the supreme court of Pennsylvania; October 8, 1855, to the 
circuit and district courts of the eastern district of 
Pennsylvania, and January 19, 1858, to the courts of Bucks 
county.  He practiced in Philadelphia until February, 1859, 
then removed to Newtown, where he has since practiced.  In 
political preferences he is a republican, but has never 
allowed the use of his name as a candidate for office, and 
has held no office except chief burgess of Newtown borough 
seven years and school director nineteen years.  He is a 
member of the Episcopal church and has been a warden and 
vestryman for several years.  In 1850 he was married to 
Ellen, daughter of Jesse and Susan B. Davis.  Two children 
were born to this union, both of whom died at an early age.