♂ Jeremiah Franklin Jenkins

1811 - 1896

 

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Jeremiah Franklin Jenkins
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Parents
Spouse
Margaret Cravens
Margaret Cravens
1814 - 1906
Children
William Washington Jenkins
William W Jenkins
1838 - 1919
David Cravens Jenkins
David Cravens Jenkins
1840 - 1871
Mary Melvina Jenkins
Mary Melvina Jenkins
1841 - 1925
Eleven Jenkins
Eleven Jenkins
1843 - 1924
John Seldon Jenkins
John Seldon Jenkins
1845 - 1922
Rodney King Jenkins
Rodney King Jenkins
1848 - 1891
Priscilla Ann Jenkins
Priscilla Ann Jenkins
1852 - 1918
Siblings
Harriet Jenkins
Harriet Jenkins
1810 - 1900

Jeremiah owned 240 acres of land in Scotland County, was a member of the I.O.O.F., (Independent Order of Odd Fellows), and he and his wife were members of the Old School Presbyterian Church.

1836


May 25
Age: 24y
1836 • The Alamo begins with an American settler army surrounded by the Mexican Army under Santa Anna.

1838


Aug 1
Age: 26y
1838 Friedrich Bessel makes the first accurate measurement of distance to a star.

1840


Age: 28y
1840 Joseph Strutt hands over the deeds and papers concerning the Derby Arboretum, which is to become England's first public park.

1840


Mar 5
Age: 28y
1840 Louis Agassiz publishes his Etudes sur les glaciers ("Study on Glaciers", 2 volumes), the first major scientific work to propose that the Earth has seen an ice age.

1841


Nov 28
Age: 30y
1841 • The sixth bishop of Calcutta, Daniel Wilson, and Dr. James Taylor, Civil Surgeon at Dhaka, establish the first modern educational institution in the Indian subcontinent, Dhaka College.

1845


Nov 26
Age: 34y

1848


Feb 20
Age: 36y
1848 • The French government dissolves the national workshops in Paris, giving the workers the choice of joining the army or going to workshops in the provinces.

1850


Age: 38y

1852


Jan 1
Age: 40y
1852 • United States statesman Henry Clay was the first to receive the honor of lying in state in the United States Capitol rotunda.

1854


Apr 10
Age: 42y
1854 Said Pasha succeeds his nephew Abbas as the Pasha of Egypt.

1856


Mar 24
Age: 44y
1856 • The Coup of 1856 leads to Luxembourg's unilateral adoption of a new, reactionary constitution, as King-Grand Duke William III signs the new constitution without the Chamber of Deputies' consent.

1861


Age: 49y
1861 • American Civil War: First Battle of Bull Run: At Manassas Junction, Virginia, the first major battle of the war ends in a Confederate victory.

1887


Age: 75y

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Missouri, USA ⇓
He was a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. (Seal from 1834.)
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1887 Arthur Conan Doyle's detective character Sherlock Holmes makes his first appearance, in the novel A Study in Scarlet published in Beeton's Christmas Annual.
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1896


Aug 18
1896 Wilfrid Laurier becomes Canada's seventh prime minister and the first French-speaker to hold that office.

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