Samuel W. Jenkins
Samuel W. Jenkins, farmer, P. O. Streetsborough, was born in Ellisburg, Jefferson Co., N. Y., March 8, 1828, a son of Samuel and Ursula (Brewster) Jenkins, who settled in Streetsboro, this township, in June, 1837, locating east of the Center on the farm now owned by C. R. Doolittle, which they cleared and improved, and where they lived for many years. Samuel Jenkins, Sr., was a native of Fort Ann, N. Y., and a son of Obiah Jenkins, formerly of Providence, R. I., who was of Welsh descent and a soldier of the Revolutionary war. Ursula, the wife of Samuel Jenkins, Sr., was a native of Middletown, Vt., and a daughter of Oramel Brewster, of English descent and a tanner and currier by trade. They had seven children: Julia E., wife of Henry Peck; Norman B.; Eunice, wife of A. W. Hurlburt; Samuel W. ; Martha U., wife of Rev. J. M. Chapman; Lydia, wife of Henry Peabody, and Wilbur A. Our subject, from nine years of age, was reared in Streetsboro, and has always engaged in farming. He assisted in clearing his father's farm, and when twenty-one years of age bought a farm adjoining, most of which he cleared and improved, and where he has always resided, excepting ten years at the Center. He has been twice married; on first occasion, in 1850, to Delia, daughter of Edward and Love (Spencer) Russell, who settled in Brimfield Township, this county, in 1829, and by whom he had two children: Eva, wife of Ransom Richards, and Sumner. October 5, 1870, he was united in marriage with his present wife, Julia, daughter of Alexander and Electa (Power) Wilcox, of Twinsburg. The issue of this union was three children: Stella, Theodore and Albert. Mr Jenkins has held various towmship offices; is one of Streetsboro's representative citizens. In politics he is a Republican.
From History of Portage County, Ohio, Warner, Beers & Co., Chicago, 1885