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, farmer, is a native of Cornwall, England; born in 1833, in the 
parish of St. Agnes, son of Nicholas Jenkins came to America in 1848, leaving 
England on the 6th of April, arrived in Mineral Point, Wis., on the 10th of 
June; he engaged in mining there till April 1,1849, then came to Platteville 
April 15, 1852; he started for California and returned June 3, 1857.  In 1862, 
he went again to California and from there to Montana returning to Platteville 
in 1868, where he has since resided; he was married in Platteville Dec. 24, 
1859, to Miss Elizabeth Enner, who died in April, 1360.  His second wife, to 
whom he was married Jan. 5, 1871, was Mrs. Eliza A. Daney [Davey], daughter of 
William Martin, of Dodgeville, who was also from Cornwall, England; she was the 
widow of Joseph J. Danev [Davey], a native of Mineral Point, Wis., who died in 
Platteville October, 1869, leaving three children - Nora A.. Joseph E. and Frank 
S.  Mr. Jenkins has three children by the second marriage, Orville M., Clarence 
P. and Ora A.