Albert Galletin Jenkins Biography Barbour County, WV ********************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ********************************************************************** Submitted By: Valerie Crook The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 503 Barbour ALBERT GALLETIN JENKINS. Of the men called to the service of the state government at Charleston by Governor Morgan in the spring of 3921, one is A. G. Jenkins, state pardon attorney. Prior to that time he had made a success- ful record as a lawyer in his home county of Barbour. He was born at Philippi in Barbour County, November 27, 1874, son of Henry Middleton Jenkins, of the same county, and grandson of Jonathan Lewis and Manda Jell- kins, who came from Loudoun County, Virginia. Henry M. Jenking, who died in 1916, was for many years a member of his local school board in Barbour County and also justice of the peace. A. G. Jenkins finished his normal school education at Fairmont, and for nine years gave his time to teaching school in Barbour County. He was elected and served four years as county superintendent of schools. Among other educational advantages he pursued a business course at Parkersburg in 1890. In 1907 he graduated from the law school of West Virginia University, and has been a member of the Barbour County bar for fifteen years. He was elected on the republican ticket, and served four years as prose- cuting attorney. Governor Morgan made him pardon at- torney in March, 1921. Mr. Jenkins has been active in republican campaigns in his home county. He is an out-door man, and spends his vacations usually along streams and in the forests and mountain sections of the state. He is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, Junior Order United American Me- chanics and Woodmen of the World. Mr. Jenkins married Miss Hazel Elizabeth Miller, of Barbour County. They have a daughter, Pauline, now in high school at Charleston.