Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Jenkins, John Benson, Jr. February 17, 1974
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Virginian-Pilot February 21, 1974
John B. Jenkins, a past president of the Norfolk-Portsmouth Bar Association, was 
a scholar as well as lawyer. He wrote a definitive history of Norfolk's 1847 
City Hall-Courthouse, now the MacArthur Memorial, and of Freemason Street 
Baptist Church, of which he was a member. Among other subjects of his research 
were the Norfolk Boat Club and this port's cotton brokerage business; he was a 
boating enthusiast in his younger years, and his family was prominent in cotton. 
His monographs are among collections in the Norfolk Law Library and the Sargent 
Memorial Room of the Kirn Library. He was a member of the Board of Directors 
when the old Norfolk Public Library was expanded into the Kirn Library, and he 
had been for fifty years. Upon his appointment to the Norfolk Civil War 
Centennial Commission in 1960, he offered the persuasive advice that the City's 
experiences of 1861-65 lent themselves better to historians than histrionics. In 
World War I, he was an Army lieutenant — one of the remarkably large number of 
young officers from Norfolk who would return to become outstanding in business 
and the professions, the bar especially. He was 82 when he died Sunday, an 
interesting and interested man.

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