Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Jenkins, William H., 1948 

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WILLIAM HENRY JENKINS, JR.

WILLIAM H. JENKINS, ONCE ON THIS PAPER, EXPIRES IN NEW YORK

   From the columns of the Norfolk Virginian Pilot we glean the sad 
intelligence that a former Franklinite, William Henry Jenkins, son of the 
late William Henry and Henrietta Rawls Jenkins of our town, had died suddenly 
Tuesday night, February 10, at his home in New York City, where he had made 
his residence for more than twenty years.

   Born in Franklin 55 years ago, William Jenkins received his early education 
here.  The writer remembers distinctly an accident which befell him when he 
attended the old public school on Norfleet Street.  At recess one day while 
playing in a classroom he bumped into the corner of a desk and cut a gash over 
his eye, the scar from which he carried all the rest of his life; and he could 
always fascinate his boyhood friends by throwing his thumbs out of joint at 
will.  From Franklin High School he entered Wake Forest College, there 
discovering his talent as a writer.  His first newspaper experience was with 
The Tidewater News.  After World War I, during which he was engaged in 
civilian work for the Federal government, he became associated with the 
Virginian Pilot as a cub reporter.

   Rising to the position of city editor of the Pilot, he left that newspaper 
in the early 1920's to serve as director of the newly organized advertising 
bureau of the Norfolk Chamber of Commerce, advertising being his forte. 
Subsequently he became associated with the N.W. Ayer advertising agency in 
Philadelphia; and with Tom A. Gilliam, another former Norfolk newspaperman, 
handled all publicity for the Ford Motor Company incident to the introduction 
of the new Model "A" Ford.

   Later Mr. Jenkins was president of the Bureau of Industrial Service, a 
subsidiary of Young and Rubicam, Inc.  He next became affiliated with the 
parent company, a nationally known advertising agency, and held several 
positions of increasing importance, until he became director of publicity and 
public relations.

   He left Young and Rubicam late in 1946 to take an extended holiday, which 
was spent for the most part in Arizona.  Returning to New York in the spring 
of 1947, he organized his own public relations business.

   He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Dorothy Liberton Jenkins; one son, W.H. 
Jenkins, Jr.; a sister, Mrs. E.R. Pugh of Portsmouth; one brother, J. Willard 
Jenkins of Chicago; and two grandsons.

   Funeral services will be held in New York on Saturday.


William Henry JENKINS (II), advertising & PR man, former journalist, 
b. Franklin, d. 10/11 Feb* 1948, at home, NYC, age 55, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 1, Plot 35*), Franklin, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Feb. 13, 1948, p. 1 

*Cemetery list gives d. 11 Feb. 
 Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
    Poplar Spring list: 
 http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar1.txt 


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