Central California Biographies

A memorial and biographical history of the coast counties of Central California : illustrated : containing 
a history of this important section of the Pacific coast from the earliest period of its discovery to the 
present time, together with glimpses of its auspicious future, illustrations and full-page portraits of 
some of its eminent men, and biographical mention of many of its pioneers, and prominent citizens of 
to-day (1893)

Publisher: Chicago : Lewis Publishing Company
Author: Barrows, Henry D; Ingersoll, Luther A

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm

 


LOUIS B. JENKINS, a native son of California, was born at Stockton, September 27, 1859, 
a son of John G. Jenkins, for many years a resident of San Joaquin county, and a 
prominent member of the State bar. This gentleman came to the " Golden State" in 
1852, from Dodgeville, Wisconsin. He was born in Tennessee, and married Mrs. Marella 
A. Rhodes in Wisconsin, a native of New York, of German descent, and our subject, Louis 
B., is the youngest of her four children. 

Louis B. Jenkins was reared in Stockton, graduated at the Stockton public schools, and 
later he studied law at Santa Cruz, and was admitted to practice in 1881. 

As soon as he was admitted to the bar he located in Santa Cruz, and from there came 
to Salinas in 1886. Two years later he was elected to the office of Justice of the Peace, 
and in 1890 succeeded himself. He is a popular Democrat in politics, and in his 
election ran far ahead of his ticket. 

Mr. Jenkins married in 1889, Miss Carrie O. Pursell, a native of Tulare county, and 
was born in 1871, and to these parents two daughters have been born, Stella and Ella. 
Mr. Jenkins enjoys a large practice, and has gained the respect and esteem of all who know 
him.