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Title: A Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California (1891) Collection Type: Books and Periodicals Publisher: Lewis Publishing Company Published: 1891 Copyright: In the public domain or published before 1925 Source(s): Google Books # of Pages: 713 Download PDF: User Login Required Download OCR Text: User Login Required

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EE HISTORY OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. 443 coast to Monterey and San Luis Obispo counties. After leaving San Francisco his first engagement was with George Butchart & Sons, of San Marcos, with whom he remained four months. Leaving California Mr. Crow! went to Washington Territory, where he was for a time interested ina grocery store at old Tacoma. He was also for a while engaged in Government survey werk in Eastern Washington. He returned to San Francisco and entered the employ of Holbrook, Merrill & Stetson, as entry clerk, which position he held two or three years, and then became salesman, and finally stock clerk. In 1883 he left that firm, and in the summer of that year came to Trinity County and took upa claim in the Long Ridge country. There was considerable litigation in that quarter, and he was employed most of the time in the Justices’ Court, becoming by constant reading and practice familiar with the law. In 1888 Mr. Crow] ran for District Attorney, but was defeated by thirty tive votes. When the new officers took their places, January 17, 1889, he was appointed’ office deputy in the County Clerk’s oftice. The incumbent of the office left the county about the 1st of March, and on the 2d of July he was appointed County Clerk. He was elected County Clerk again, November 4, 1890, for a term of two years. Ile is a Republican politically. Mr. Crowl is a painstaking, couscientions officer, and being accommodating and obliging is a very popular man in Trinity County. QOS Heoiee Le uF Ce’ Fy IIOMAS JARETT JENKINS, M. D., the ip third of seven children in the family of Bartholomew and Matilda (Scott) Jenkins, was born in Marshall County, Kentucky, November 11, 1824, of English and Welsh ancestors. Members of the family early located in Maryland and afterward in Virginia, the grandfather serving as a soldier in the Revolutionary war. Bartholomew Jenkins was a Virginian by birth, his wife coming originally from SonthCarolina. Thomas J. received his literary education in the Blue Grass State, after which, having chosen the science of medicine as a tield for a life of usefulness, he began its study under Dr. Holt, at Murray, Kentucky, later graduating from Frankfort College and also from the Vanderbilt University, of Nashville, Tennessee, which he left well qualified to enter upon the duties of a practitioner. A beginning was made at Murray, Kentucky, butin 1849 he came to California, and at Bidwell’s Bar touk up both mining and the mercantile business. Subsequently he moved from there and became the founder (or at least one of the founders) of the now prosperous city of Oroville, with the best interests of which he was ever after closely identified. As the pioneer physician, the first druggist, and prominent in all early affairs, his name became almost a household word. His practice was extensive, no call being considered too remote to remain unanswered; and this readiness to respond when solicited was largely the cause of the sincere love and esteem accorded him. On the 16th of October, 1890, he was called away from earth, his death being keenly felt by those among whom he had passed so many pleasant years. His funeral was under the direction of the Masonic order, of which he had long been an honored member. For forty-one yeare Dr. Jenkins had given his labors to the people of Butte County, irrespective of class, believing it tu be his duty to alleviate suffering wherever fonnd. No night was too dark or stormy, no day too cold to venture out; indeed, words fail to do justice to the self-sacrificing, patient physician and friend, who made the sorrows and sufferings of others his own. The Doctor's wife was formerly Sarah Anna Williamson, who was born in Ireland, but reared in America, the daughter of John F. Williamson. During her visit to California she formed the acquaintance of her future husband. She returned to Texas, to her people, whither the Doctor subsequently felt it necessary to go. In 1858 they were married, and thus began a happy married life,