Area History: Ltr from Steuben Jenkins to Mr Wright, 1885: Wyoming, Luzerne Co, PA

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TO : MR. C. E. WRIGHT
FROM : STEUBEN JENKINS

                                     Wyoming  8th  Decr. 1885

My dear Sir.

     It gives me great pleasure to receive yours of the 5th
and to be assured by it that you are alive, well and taking an
interest in the history and character of your native Valley.
I have been laboring for years in gathering materials for a
History of Wyoming and have amassed an amount of
material to that end that I myself marvel at.  I have
dealt it out in portions to a number of our historians to wit
Col. Wright for the history of Plymouth. Gov. Hoyt for his Brief
of Van Horne vs Dorrance.  Rev. David Craft for his History of
Bradford Co. and H B Plumb for his history of Hanover.
In addition I wrote the Indian History for the TriCo
History of Wyoming, Lackawanna  & Luzerne, together with the
Biographical and Genealogical Sketches of Gen. Dana,
Col. Dorrance, the Slocums, Pettebones, Swetland, &c &c.
Besides these I have written three articles for the Wyoming Historical
and Genealogical Society.  One on the Pennamite War, one on fish
and one on old Pittston Fort - and an article on the Western
Reserve for the Historical Register published by Dr. W H Egle
at Harrisburg - and a portion of this article on Luzerne County in
Dr Egle's History of Penna.  You recollect that I prepared
a history of the Massacre for the Centennial also an address on
Sullivan's Campaign for the Centennial of the Battle of Newtown
29 Augt 1879 -  In addition to all these I have written
numerous articles for newspapers and have kept up a
correspondence on Historical and Genealogical subjects
with persons from Boston through to the Pacific.
   When you take into consideration that I was not born with
a silver spoon in my mouth -- that I always held the laboring
___ and have to earn and gather before I have anything. that
I ___ have to labor for my daily bread.  I think that you
will recognize that I have done my share and done it, too,
under somewhat adverse circumstances, and, I thank God
that my situation under these circumstances has never appealed
to the Sympathy of any human being ; if it has, it has appealed
in vain, for none of it ever reached me.  I have never begged.
  To come back to our subject.  I have had in my mind for sometime
to write a history of Exeter and Kingston Townships and have a large
amt of material on that point which E C Butler, who has seen it
says it is the most interesting of anything he has seen on Wyoming.
That may be strung together and printed.  I am 66 yrs old vigorous and
young in feeling. with great hopes, in the future,
                                          Man proposes, God disposes.
                                          Yours very Truly,
                                           Steuben Jenkins

C.E.Wright Esq.
    Doylestown  Pa.