



IN MEMORIAM 

 W. F. JENKINS 



Died April 21, 1910. Age, 65 Years. 



William Francis Jenkins was born in Clyde, New York, No- 

 vember 17. 1844, and in August, 1862, when not quite eighteen 

 years old, he enlisted to fight for his country in the Civil War, 

 actively engaging in thirteen battles, and was with Sherman on 

 his march to the sea. 



Mr. Jenkins had many good stories to tell of his experiences 

 as a soldier, and was becoming distinguished as an author, the 

 National Tribune of Washington, D. C, having published a num- 

 ber of his war stories. Though he was only a boy twenty-one 

 years of age when peace was gloriously restored, Mr. Jenkins's 

 services were appreciated and he was made a corporal. 



On June 23, 1867, he married Angeline B. Clark, widow of Lieu- 

 tenant Clark, who was killed in the Civil War. Mr. Jenkins lived 

 in the state of Michigan until January, 1879, when he moved to 

 Nebraska, where he homesteaded, and has ever since lived on 

 the land now known as the "Ai'cadia Fruit Farm," where he, 

 as the result of unceasing toil, has built up one of the finest or- 

 chards and one of the most beautiful homes in Nebraska. He 

 has demonstrated that by persistent effort and close application, 

 together with wise selection and proper care, a high quality of 

 fruit can be grown on the bleak prairies of central Nebraska, 

 and his horticultural work here will be his imperishable monu- 

 ment. The biblical "By their fruits ye shall know them" is cer- 

 tainly doubly applicable in this case. 



It has always been his endeavor to improve the welfare of his 

 community. In 1894 when famine was threatening, Mr. Jenkins 

 went east and by unceasing efforts secured donations of carloads 

 of grain, clothing and food for the people of this locality. He 

 has taken great interest in the culture of fruit, having been twice 

 elected vice-president of the Nebraska Horticultural Society. 



He leaves a widow, three children, two sisters, eleven grand- 

 children, and one great grandchild to mourn his loss. 



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