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Description
2019-1240. Bust-length portrait. Born in 1834 to Livingston Jenks and Sallie Jenks (Buffington), in Pennsylvania. Educated as lawyer, practicing law in Illinois and Kansas. Served in Company G, 13th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War. Married Mary E. Allson in 1865. Moved to Sacramento in 1888 where practiced law; also worked for corporation manufacturing grape baskets, as secretary of nursery firm of C.W. Reed & Co. and had is own nursery firm, W. M. Jenks & Son. Died Jan 22 1914. John E.E. Baldwin Estate.
Type
image
Format
Unmediated Sheet Portraits. Nonprojected graphic
Extent
1 photograph : print ; cardboard mount, print oval image 5 x 3 3/8 in. in mount 7 3/4 x 5 3/4 in.
Language
English
Subject
Jenks, William Morgan,, 1834-1914--Portraits Grand Army of the Republic. Warren Post No. 54 (Sacramento, Calif.)--Portraits Veterans Veterans organizations--California--Sacramento Lawyers--California--Sacramento Nurseries (Horticulture)--California--Sacramento Sacramento (Calif.)--Biography--Portraits United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Veterans--Portraits Photographic prints Portrait photographs
Time Period
Civil War, 1861-1865
Place
California Sacramento Sacramento (Calif.) United States
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