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honorably connected. The house has recently been 

 taken down. This visit and a subsequent one to 

 Amherst determined young Jenks upon a College 

 life. 



He was now approaching his thirteenth year, and 

 it became necessary to make choice of some kind of 

 business or a profession for the future. The father 

 had already made arrangements with a watchmaker 

 and jeweller to take him as an apprentice until he 

 was eighteen, leaving it for the son to decide the 

 matter on his coming birthday. The decision was 

 promptly made. He would go to College. His 

 father could only give his approval, and his time 

 until he was twenty-one. The lad foresaw the 

 struggle and self-denial involved in the task before 

 him, but his energy and indomitable will, even at 

 that early age, knew no obstacles. Making arrange- 

 ments with a merchant farmer opposite his father's 

 house to assist him in his work, go on errands and 

 the like, for his board and clothing, he made a similar 

 arrangement for his tuition with his pastor, the Rev. 

 Addison Parker, and commenced the study of Latin. 

 While reciting in the pastor's study from day to day, 

 he attracted the notice of a young man visiting at the 

 parsonage, who, on learning his history, offered to 

 take the lad with him to Virginia, where he had been 

 teaching for the past two years, pay all his expenses 

 and fit him for College. The Maecenas* thus prov- 



*In the Journal or Diary of Prof. Jenks occurs the following entry: — 

 "Thursday, April 16, 1885. Called upon the Rev. Dr. Parker, the 

 Maecenas who took me at the age of thirteen from Massachusetts to 

 Virginia to attend his school, and begin to fit for College in the 

 Classics. He at the age of seventy-nine had given up active service as 

 a pastor, and was living in Los Angeles, with his married daughter." 



