Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Jenks, Henry F. W. July 21, 1860 - ????
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Source: Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Blair Co, PA: Philadelphia, 1892.
Author: Samuel T. Wiley

HENRY F.W. JENKS,
A skilled iron worker, and who is now employed by Portage Iron Company
(limited), of Duncansville, is a son of Joseph and Mary Ann (Jewkes) Jenks,
and was born at Wolverhampton, England, July 21, 1860. His paternal
grandfather, Isaac Jenks, was born at Bilston, South Staffordshire, England,
and died at Wolverhampton in 1870 or '72. He was a heater by trade, and had
served for several years as manager of an iron mill. He was liberal in
English politics, a member of the Wesleyan Methodist Church, and married and
reared a family of ten children. He was a life long resident of his native
county, and his son, Joseph Jenks (father), was born at Bilston in 1823. He
received his education in the schools of his town, and learned the trade of
roller, which he followed for some years. At the end of that time he became a
manager of a steel mill, which position he filled efficiently and acceptably
for a number of years. He is still alive, and visiting his children in
America. He resided during most of his life at Wolverhampton, in South
Straffordshire, where he was a member of the Wesleyan Methodist Church. He
was a liberal in English political affairs, and married Mary Ann Jewkes, who
died in 1883, aged fifty-seven years. They reared a family of eleven
children, five sons and six daughters: Joseph, an iron merchant in England;
Thomas, who died at an early age; Walter I., who came to Pennsylvania, and
who is a boss roller in La Bell Steel mills, Allegheny, this state; Albert E., 
now engaged in the iron business with his brother Joseph in England;
Henry F.W.; Mary A., wife of William George Merriman, of Duncansville, whose
sketch appears elsewhere in this volume; Agnes, who married William
Blakemore, the manager of a large colliery in England; Matilda M., wife of
Rev. John Watson Blakemore, an eminent clergyman of Sunderland, England;
Rebecca; Ada L., who married Samuel Evans, a merchant of Manchester, in her
native country; and Martha E.
   Henry F. W. Jenks was reared at Wolverhampton, received a good English
education, and learned the trade of roller, which he followed in England
until 1882, when he came to Pennsylvania. After being variously employed in
several different rolling mills he came, in 1889, to Duncansville, where he
has been employed ever since as boss roller of a ten inch train of rolls in
the rolling mill of the Portage Iron Company. Mr. Jenks is a republican in
politics, and in religious sentiment and church membership has been some
years a Wesleyan Methodist. He is a competent and energetic workman, well
acquainted with all the details of rolling mill work, and is a pleasant and
intelligent gentleman.
   On November 21, 1885, Mr. Jenks was united in marriage with Annie E.
Fawsitt, of Hanley, North Staffordshire, England, and their union has been
blessed with two children: a son named Ernest, who was born may 21, 1889; and
Ethel may, born January, 1890, and died July 17 of the same year.

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