When Clarence Riley Jenks was born on 26 February 1897, in Belleville, Republic, Kansas, United States, his father, George Rilley Jenks, was 46 and his mother, Anna Bea Bradford, was 29. He married Emma Kanneberg on 12 October 1919, in Butternut, Ashland, Wisconsin, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Johnson, Wyoming, United States for about 5 years and Election District 3, Johnson, Wyoming, United States in 1940. He died in May 1966, in Buffalo, Johnson, Wyoming, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Willow Grove Cemetery, Buffalo, Johnson, Wyoming, United States.
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After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
English (West Midlands): from the Middle English personal name Jenke (a shortening of the personal name Jenkin, Jankin; see Jenkin ), with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
History: Joseph Jenks (1602–83), the descendant of an old Welsh family, was born in England and traveled to Saugus, near Lynn, MA, in 1642 to assist in the development of America's first iron works. His son, Joseph Jenckes (sic), followed in 1650, founded Pawtucket, RI, and raised four sons who held places of respect and distinction in RI, including one who served as governor for five years.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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