Charles Francis Jenkins

Publisher; born in Norristown, Pa., Dec. 17, 1865; son of Howard M. and Mary Anna (Atkinson) Jenkins. He was educated in the public schools. He married, Feb. 12, 1890, Maria G. Cope. Mr. Jenkins has been in the publishing business since 1883, and is one of the editors and proprietors of the Farm Journal. He is president of the Site and Relic Society of Germantown, manager of Swarthmore College. Mr. Jenkins is author of: Quaker Poems, a collection of verse relating to the Society of Friends, 1893: Guide Book to Historic Germantown, 1902; Washington in Germantown, 1906; Jefferson's Germantown Letters, 1907. Residence: Cranford, Germantown. Office address: 1024 Race Street, Philadelphia.

Source: John W. Leonard. Who's Who in Pennsylvania: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporaries, 2nd ed. New York: L.R. Hamersly & Co., 1908, p. 393.

Submitted by Nancy.