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Charles F. Jenkins (Quaker)

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Charles Francis Jenkins (17 December 1865 – 1951) was an American Quaker and historian.

Early life

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Jenkins was born in Norristown, Pennsylvania, on 17 December 1865. He lived in Wilmington, Delaware, and West Chester, Pennsylvania, where he completed his basic education. He did not attend college.[1]

Career

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Jenkins's early career was at the Farm Journal, which had been founded by his uncle Wilmer Atkinson.[1]

He was a member and president of the Buck Hill Falls Company for fifty years, and a member and president of the Board of Managers of Swarthmore College for forty years.[1]

Jenkins was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1944.[2]

He was a noted horticulturist who collected hemlocks and created the Hemlock Arboretum at his home in Germantown and campaigned to have the plant selected as the state tree of Pennsylvania.[1]

Death and legacy

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Jenkins died in 1951.[1]

Selected publications

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d e "Charles Francis Jenkins 1865-1951" by Frank Aydelotte, Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol.75, No. 4 (January 1951), pp. 365-367.
  2. ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2023-04-07.
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