Thomas Jenkins Biography - Grant County Wisconsin

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Submitted by David W. Taft, dtaft @ cowtown.net

History of Grant County Wisconsin
Western Historical Publishing, Chicago, July 1881
Town of Platteville, Biographical Sketches, Page 909

THOMAS JENKINS, miner; was born in Cornwall, England, June 26,1832, in the 
parish of Kenwyn, and received a common-school and academic education in 
England.  His father, Benjamin Jenkins, went to Brazil, South America, with his 
family in 1837, and was engaged in mining there till 1842, then returned to 
England.  He came to the United States in 1848 and settled in Platteville, where 
he was engaged in mining till 1851, when he went to California, returning to 
Wisconsin in 1857; went again to California, overland, in 1861, and from there 
to Montana in 1866.  He returned to Platteville in 1868, and has resided there 
since.  He was married in 1858, in Dodgeville, Wis., to Miss Sheba Martin, 
daughter of William Martin, of that place, and has four children living - 
Bennie, Ida, Nettie and Mary.  Mr. Jenkins was a member of the Village Board of 
Platteville six years in succession from 1870, and was Assessor five years of 
the time; he represented his district in the Legislature of 1874, and is at 
present a member of the City Council.