George A. Jenks and Ellen Davis

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Husband George A. Jenks ¹

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           Born: 9 Oct 1829 - Newtown, Bucks Co, PA 2
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         Father: Dr. Phineas Jenks (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Amelia Snyder (1791-      ) 1 3 4

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       Marriage: 1850 1

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Wife Ellen Davis ¹

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         Father: Jesse Davis (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Susan B. [Unk] (      -      ) 1

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General Notes: Husband - George A. Jenks

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His early education was received at the Newtown academy. July 4, 1850, he was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania. He read law with James C. Van Dyke, of Philadelphia, then United States district attorney. April 16, 1853, he was admitted to practice in the district court and common pleas of Philadelphia. After taking a full course in the law department of the University of Pennsylvania, on July 3, 1853, the degrees of Master of Arts and Bachelor of Laws were conferred on him. January 13, 1855, he was admitted to the supreme court of Pennsylvania; October 8, 1855, to the circuit and district courts of the eastern district of Pennsylvania, and January 19, 1858, to the courts of Bucks County. He practiced in Philadelphia until February, 1859, then removed to Newtown, where he then practiced. In political preferences he was a republican, but never allowed the use of his name as a candidate for office, and held no office except chief burgess of Newtown borough seven years and school director nineteen years. He was a member of the Episcopal church and was a warden and vestryman for several years.

1 J. H. Battle, History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: A. Warner & Co., Publishers, 1887), Pg 1016.

2 J. H. Battle, History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: A. Warner & Co., Publishers, 1887), Pg 1017.

3 —, History of the Susquehanna and Juniata Valleys (Philadelphia, PA: Everts, Peck & Richards, 1886), Pg 1480.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 221.