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Jenkins, Jotham, Stockholm, was born in Canada, Febrbary 4, 1825, a son of Elias, a native of Bradford, Vt.,
born in 1790. The latter came to Canada with his parents when a child. His father dying when he was ten years old
he was obliged to assume much of the responsibility of caring for the family at a very early age. At the age of
twenty he married Sarah, daughter of Rev. Richard Gage, by whom he had eleven children. In 1837 Mr, Jenkins came
to Stockholm, where he spent his last years. He and wife were members of the Wesleyan Methodist church, in which
Mr. Jenkins was class leader for thirty years. Mrs. Jenkins died in June, 1853, and in 1854 he married second,
Mrs. Taylor, of Malone, N. Y. Mr. Jenkins died October 19, 1870. Jotham, our subject, came to Stockholm at the
age of twelve, where he was educated and has always followed farming, being the owner of 360 acres. He is a Prohibitionist
and attends the Wesleyan Methodist church, in 1848 he married Sophronia French. of Stockholm, by whom he has had
seven children Warren, who died young; Orpha E., who married a Mr. Maynard, of Dakota, where she died, leaving
four children; Silas D., who married Electa Gray, and has had two children, Ivers and Theron; Janson, who married
Martha Winters and has four children, resides iii Dakota; Henry I., of Winthrop, married first, Martha Smith, by
whom he had one child, Gladys, and second, Mary O'Brien; Elias L, died in infancy and Gertie L., who resides at
home. Mrs. Jenkins was a daughter of Levi S. French, who was a son of John, of Vermont, one of the first to settle
in Stockholm (1810) where he died in 1832. He married Sybil Dewey, who died in 1841, and they had six children.
Levi French was born in Vermont in 1799, and married Elmina Fisk, of Bangor, N. Y., by whom he had five children.
He died in 1887, and his wife October 6, 1890, aged eighty five.
FROM:
Our County and it's people
A memorial record of St. Lawrence County, New York
Edited by: Gates Curtis
The Boston History Co., Publishers 1894
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