The writer had the pleasure of a drive to Swan Lake and back by way of Ryan Lake, Wednesday. We were especially impressed with the beautiful country, and thrifty appearance of the farms between Swan Lake and Ryan. A more beautiful drive can not be found in the northwest. At Swan Lake was called upon friend Dolph Jenkins, who has been confined to his room since early spring suffering from asthma and consumption. Mr. Jenkins is cheerful and full of talk, and while the doctors claim the chances for his recovery are against him, his grit and will power, gives him a Trojan grip on life, which we hope to see pull him through, and we can but believe it will. (Northern Vindicator, Estherville, IA, August 20, 1886)
J. E. Jenkins of the Safeguard came up from Columbus Junction Tuesday called hence by the sad news of the death of his father, A. Jenkins of Swan Lake.
M. M. Jenkins of Sherburne, Minn., was in attendance at the funeral of his brother, Mr. A. Jenkins of Swan Lake Wednesday. Of the family of six brothers known to the early settlers as the “Jenkins boys,” “Dolph” the eldest was the first to be taken away, and of the survivors only two cold attend the funeral.
Quite a number of our citizens attended the funeral of Mr. A. Jenkins at Swan Lake. (Northern Vindicator, Estherville, IA, October 8, 1886)
Report reaches this office that Mr. A. Jenkins, father of Ed Jenkins, died at his home in Swan Lake, Emmet Co., on Monday last. (Palo Alto Reporter, Emmetsburg, IA, October 8, 1886)
Among Our Neighbors: Adolphus Jenkins, a resident of Emmet county since ’57, died at Swan Lake Sunday of last week. He had a good intellect and large information, and was one of the most genial and companionable of men. The writer knew him well fifteen years and longer ago, and hears with real regret of his death. (spirit Lake Beacon, Spirit Lake, IA, October 15, 1886)
Death of Adolphus [Skinner] Jenkins
The death of another Emmet county pioneer was announced Monday as having occurred the evening previous [3 Oct 1886 in Swan Lake.] Although in failing health for the past ten years and unable to take an active part in business, he has been an interested observer and participant so far as circumstances would permit of all matters of public import. Born in New York [Cohocton, Steuben county] a little over sixty years ago [12 Feb 1826], after living in Michigan and Minnesota for some years, he finally moved to this county in the spring of 1857. Upon the organization of the county in 1860 he was elected county judge; at the time when that official performed the duties now exercised by the Board of Supervisors, and to the very last he had great interest in this county and was always hopeful for its future.
At an early date he became interested in the mill property at this point, adding to and improving from time to time, and for some years the Jenkins mill at Estherville was the only mill in all this region--farmers coming here from Humboldt county. It was in this line of business he contracted the asthma, finally one of the causes of his death.
He was a man of varied attainments having been a student all his life, and there were few questions of public interest he had not a decided opinion upon--often in advance of his associates. The writer well remembers a prediction made by him years ago upon the temperance problem as it was then presented. He said, "I may not live to see the time, but it will surely come, when the temperance question will occupy the same position in politics the slavery question did thirty years ago. It must and will become a national issue and the policians and parties that try to evade it will surely fail."
He has been a subscriber and reader of the Vindicator from the first issue of the paper, and was one of the few of whom the same could be said.
The family consisting of wife and six children have the sympathy of a host of friends in their bereavement. [His wife's maiden name was Lydia Ellen Davis.] (Northern Vindicator, Estherville, IA, October 8, 1886)
J. E. Jenkins of the Safeguard came up from Columbus Junction Tuesday called hence by the sad news of the death of his father, A. Jenkins of Swan Lake.
M. M. Jenkins of Sherburne, Minn., was in attendance at the funeral of his brother, Mr. A. Jenkins of Swan Lake Wednesday. Of the family of six brothers known to the early settlers as the “Jenkins boys,” “Dolph” the eldest was the first to be taken away, and of the survivors only two cold attend the funeral.
Quite a number of our citizens attended the funeral of Mr. A. Jenkins at Swan Lake. (Northern Vindicator, Estherville, IA, October 8, 1886)
Report reaches this office that Mr. A. Jenkins, father of Ed Jenkins, died at his home in Swan Lake, Emmet Co., on Monday last. (Palo Alto Reporter, Emmetsburg, IA, October 8, 1886)
Among Our Neighbors: Adolphus Jenkins, a resident of Emmet county since ’57, died at Swan Lake Sunday of last week. He had a good intellect and large information, and was one of the most genial and companionable of men. The writer knew him well fifteen years and longer ago, and hears with real regret of his death. (spirit Lake Beacon, Spirit Lake, IA, October 15, 1886)
Death of Adolphus [Skinner] Jenkins
The death of another Emmet county pioneer was announced Monday as having occurred the evening previous [3 Oct 1886 in Swan Lake.] Although in failing health for the past ten years and unable to take an active part in business, he has been an interested observer and participant so far as circumstances would permit of all matters of public import. Born in New York [Cohocton, Steuben county] a little over sixty years ago [12 Feb 1826], after living in Michigan and Minnesota for some years, he finally moved to this county in the spring of 1857. Upon the organization of the county in 1860 he was elected county judge; at the time when that official performed the duties now exercised by the Board of Supervisors, and to the very last he had great interest in this county and was always hopeful for its future.
At an early date he became interested in the mill property at this point, adding to and improving from time to time, and for some years the Jenkins mill at Estherville was the only mill in all this region--farmers coming here from Humboldt county. It was in this line of business he contracted the asthma, finally one of the causes of his death.
He was a man of varied attainments having been a student all his life, and there were few questions of public interest he had not a decided opinion upon--often in advance of his associates. The writer well remembers a prediction made by him years ago upon the temperance problem as it was then presented. He said, "I may not live to see the time, but it will surely come, when the temperance question will occupy the same position in politics the slavery question did thirty years ago. It must and will become a national issue and the policians and parties that try to evade it will surely fail."
He has been a subscriber and reader of the Vindicator from the first issue of the paper, and was one of the few of whom the same could be said.
The family consisting of wife and six children have the sympathy of a host of friends in their bereavement. [His wife's maiden name was Lydia Ellen Davis.] (Northern Vindicator, Estherville, IA, October 8, 1886)
The writer had the pleasure of a drive to Swan Lake and back by way of Ryan Lake, Wednesday. We were especially impressed with the beautiful country, and thrifty appearance of the farms between Swan Lake and Ryan. A more beautiful drive can not be found in the northwest. At Swan Lake was called upon friend Dolph Jenkins, who has been confined to his room since early spring suffering from asthma and consumption. Mr. Jenkins is cheerful and full of talk, and while the doctors claim the chances for his recovery are against him, his grit and will power, gives him a Trojan grip on life, which we hope to see pull him through, and we can but believe it will. (Northern Vindicator, Estherville, IA, August 20, 1886)
J. E. Jenkins of the Safeguard came up from Columbus Junction Tuesday called hence by the sad news of the death of his father, A. Jenkins of Swan Lake.
M. M. Jenkins of Sherburne, Minn., was in attendance at the funeral of his brother, Mr. A. Jenkins of Swan Lake Wednesday. Of the family of six brothers known to the early settlers as the “Jenkins boys,” “Dolph” the eldest was the first to be taken away, and of the survivors only two cold attend the funeral.
Quite a number of our citizens attended the funeral of Mr. A. Jenkins at Swan Lake. (Northern Vindicator, Estherville, IA, October 8, 1886)
Report reaches this office that Mr. A. Jenkins, father of Ed Jenkins, died at his home in Swan Lake, Emmet Co., on Monday last. (Palo Alto Reporter, Emmetsburg, IA, October 8, 1886)
Among Our Neighbors: Adolphus Jenkins, a resident of Emmet county since ’57, died at Swan Lake Sunday of last week. He had a good intellect and large information, and was one of the most genial and companionable of men. The writer knew him well fifteen years and longer ago, and hears with real regret of his death. (spirit Lake Beacon, Spirit Lake, IA, October 15, 1886)
Death of Adolphus [Skinner] Jenkins
The death of another Emmet county pioneer was announced Monday as having occurred the evening previous [3 Oct 1886 in Swan Lake.] Although in failing health for the past ten years and unable to take an active part in business, he has been an interested observer and participant so far as circumstances would permit of all matters of public import. Born in New York [Cohocton, Steuben county] a little over sixty years ago [12 Feb 1826], after living in Michigan and Minnesota for some years, he finally moved to this county in the spring of 1857. Upon the organization of the county in 1860 he was elected county judge; at the time when that official performed the duties now exercised by the Board of Supervisors, and to the very last he had great interest in this county and was always hopeful for its future.
At an early date he became interested in the mill property at this point, adding to and improving from time to time, and for some years the Jenkins mill at Estherville was the only mill in all this region--farmers coming here from Humboldt county. It was in this line of business he contracted the asthma, finally one of the causes of his death.
He was a man of varied attainments having been a student all his life, and there were few questions of public interest he had not a decided opinion upon--often in advance of his associates. The writer well remembers a prediction made by him years ago upon the temperance problem as it was then presented. He said, "I may not live to see the time, but it will surely come, when the temperance question will occupy the same position in politics the slavery question did thirty years ago. It must and will become a national issue and the policians and parties that try to evade it will surely fail."
He has been a subscriber and reader of the Vindicator from the first issue of the paper, and was one of the few of whom the same could be said.
The family consisting of wife and six children have the sympathy of a host of friends in their bereavement. [His wife's maiden name was Lydia Ellen Davis.] (Northern Vindicator, Estherville, IA, October 8, 1886)
J. E. Jenkins of the Safeguard came up from Columbus Junction Tuesday called hence by the sad news of the death of his father, A. Jenkins of Swan Lake.
M. M. Jenkins of Sherburne, Minn., was in attendance at the funeral of his brother, Mr. A. Jenkins of Swan Lake Wednesday. Of the family of six brothers known to the early settlers as the “Jenkins boys,” “Dolph” the eldest was the first to be taken away, and of the survivors only two cold attend the funeral.
Quite a number of our citizens attended the funeral of Mr. A. Jenkins at Swan Lake. (Northern Vindicator, Estherville, IA, October 8, 1886)
Report reaches this office that Mr. A. Jenkins, father of Ed Jenkins, died at his home in Swan Lake, Emmet Co., on Monday last. (Palo Alto Reporter, Emmetsburg, IA, October 8, 1886)
Among Our Neighbors: Adolphus Jenkins, a resident of Emmet county since ’57, died at Swan Lake Sunday of last week. He had a good intellect and large information, and was one of the most genial and companionable of men. The writer knew him well fifteen years and longer ago, and hears with real regret of his death. (spirit Lake Beacon, Spirit Lake, IA, October 15, 1886)
Death of Adolphus [Skinner] Jenkins
The death of another Emmet county pioneer was announced Monday as having occurred the evening previous [3 Oct 1886 in Swan Lake.] Although in failing health for the past ten years and unable to take an active part in business, he has been an interested observer and participant so far as circumstances would permit of all matters of public import. Born in New York [Cohocton, Steuben county] a little over sixty years ago [12 Feb 1826], after living in Michigan and Minnesota for some years, he finally moved to this county in the spring of 1857. Upon the organization of the county in 1860 he was elected county judge; at the time when that official performed the duties now exercised by the Board of Supervisors, and to the very last he had great interest in this county and was always hopeful for its future.
At an early date he became interested in the mill property at this point, adding to and improving from time to time, and for some years the Jenkins mill at Estherville was the only mill in all this region--farmers coming here from Humboldt county. It was in this line of business he contracted the asthma, finally one of the causes of his death.
He was a man of varied attainments having been a student all his life, and there were few questions of public interest he had not a decided opinion upon--often in advance of his associates. The writer well remembers a prediction made by him years ago upon the temperance problem as it was then presented. He said, "I may not live to see the time, but it will surely come, when the temperance question will occupy the same position in politics the slavery question did thirty years ago. It must and will become a national issue and the policians and parties that try to evade it will surely fail."
He has been a subscriber and reader of the Vindicator from the first issue of the paper, and was one of the few of whom the same could be said.
The family consisting of wife and six children have the sympathy of a host of friends in their bereavement. [His wife's maiden name was Lydia Ellen Davis.] (Northern Vindicator, Estherville, IA, October 8, 1886)
Gravesite Details
Adolphus is most likely buried in the Jenkins family plot with his mother, sister and daughter. Many of the stones are missing or broken.
Family Members
Siblings
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