Biography of John Jenkins, page 772.  History of De Kalb County, Indiana.  
Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.  

John Jenkins, section 26, Smithfield Township, was born in the State of 
Maryland, near Washington, in 1815, a son of John Jenkins.  His father was a 
slaveholder in Maryland.  He died, when our subject was a child.  In 1833 
John Jenkins, Jr., went to Knox County, Ohio, at that time sparsely settled, 
and remained there about twelve years.  He was married in Ohio, to Margaret 
Hull, a native of Pennsylvania, but a resident of Knox County from her 
infancy.  July 17, 1845, he came to De Kalb County, Ind., and bought a tract 
of heavily timbered land on section 16, Concord Township.  He cleared 120 
acres, erected good buildings and made it his home till 1879, when he  
bought his present farm of eighty acres, of Homer Henning.  He has made a 
specialty in horses, buying and shipping West.  Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins have 
had eight children; but seven are living---Martin, Mary Ann, Henry, Alvin, 
John, Sarah and Orange.  A daughter, Ellen is deceased.

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