Boston of to-day; a glance at its history and characteristicsWith biographical sketches and portraits of many of its professional and business men . f]iublic buildings, son of Charles and Mary (Han-son) Jenkins, was born in Scituate, Mass., Dec. 3,1826. He received his education in the publicschools, and when yet a lad went to sea. Subse-quently he learned the carpenters trade, apprenticedto Samuel Mason, of Charlestown. He remainedwith Mr. Mason until 1856. Then he entered thedepartment of public buildings at the Boston CityHall, and was assigned to look after school-housesand keep them in go
Boston of to-day; a glance at its history and characteristicsWith biographical sketches and portraits of many of its professional and business men . f]iublic buildings, son of Charles and Mary (Han-son) Jenkins, was born in Scituate, Mass., Dec. 3,1826. He received his education in the publicschools, and when yet a lad went to sea. Subse-quently he learned the carpenters trade, apprenticedto Samuel Mason, of Charlestown. He remainedwith Mr. Mason until 1856. Then he entered thedepartment of public buildings at the Boston CityHall, and was assigned to look after school-housesand keep them in good order. At that time theduties of the office were not so difficult as at thepresent. He was made assistant superintendent ofpublic buildings by Mr. Tucker when the latterwas appointed superintendent. Mr. Jenkins is amember of the Masons, the Odd Fellows, FranklinLodge, and of the order of Red Men. His firstwife, whom he married in 1845, was ElizabethLawrence ; his second, married in 1886, was EmmaHalstick. Jenkins, Edward J., son of John and Sabina E.(I)onnellon) Jenkins, was born in London, Eng.,Dec. 20, 1854. He was brought to Boston when. but a few weeks old, and here he was educatedand has since lived. He attended Boston public schools, and studied law at the Boston UniversityLaw School, from which he graduated in following year, on November 30, he was ad-mitted to the Suffolk bar, and subsequenUy, onDecember 23, to the bar of the United Statescourt. Before he entered the Law School he hadbecome prominent in local politics. In 1876 hewas secretary of the Democratic city committee,and the same year a member of the school com-mittee. That year also he was elected to the lowerhouse of the Legislature of 1877, and, reelected,served also in 1878 and 1879, resigning his seat thelatter year. From 1879 to 1885, when he declinedlonger to serve, he was commissioner of 1881 he was the Democratic candidate for clerkof the Superior Civil Court. In 1885 he was at
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