Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed.,
1886. Warren County.

HENRY E. JENKINS, mayor of the city of Bowling Green, and wholesale and
retail grocer, was born in Warren County, Ky.; August 21, 1835, is a son
of John E. and Polly Ann (Ewing) Jenkins, and is of English extraction. 
His father was born in Virginia in 1803.  His paternal grandfather, Simon
Jenkins, was also a Virginian.  The Ewing family immigrated to this State
from Virginia.  Both of these families were among the early settlers of
Warrren County, and underwent the hardships and privations incident to
life in the new country.  Henry E. Jenkins was reared on the farm and
educated at the country schools of that day.  At nineteen years of age he
began life for himself by farming, and this occupation he continued until
1871; then removed to Bowling Green, where he has since resided.  In 1872
he engaged in the grocery business, in partnership with L. A. Hawks.  Aftr
some time Mr. Jenkins purchased his partner's interest, and the firm is
now known as H. E. Jenkins & Co., and is doing one of the most extensive
trades in the grocery line in the city.  Mr. Jenkins is one of the
practical men of this part of Kentucky.  He is a Democrat.  In 1873 he was
elected a member of the Bowling Green City Council, which position he held
for five years; was then elected a member of the county court, and served
four years; was then re-elected to the city council.  In 1884 he was
elected mayor of Bowling Green.  The marriage of Mr. Jenkins took place in
1857, with Catherine Jones, who died in 1866.  The following year Mr.
Jenkins married Caroline Alexander, a native of this county.  They have
one child,  viz.:  Ella P.  In 1857 Mr. Jenkins was made a member of the
I. O. O. F. and a Mason in 1861.  He and wife are members of the
Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and for seven years he has been an elder
in that denomination.  Mr. Jenkins is one of the most enterprising, and
public-spirited citizens of Bowling Green.  He was an advocate of the
Bowling Green Graded Schools, and is a man of true merit and worth.

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