Alfred Jenkins

Born: 1848

Died: December 29, 1916

Married: yes

Children: Mrs. Farnham Yardley

Alfred Blunt Jenkins was the father of Mrs. Farnham Yardley, and was a donor to Trudeau Sanatorium.

Obituary - Alfred Blunt Jenkins, December 29, 1916 [Publication unknown]

Alfred Blunt Jenkins died at his home in Llewellyn Park, West Orange, N. J., Friday morning, Dec. 29, 1916, at the age of 68 years. He was born in Boston on 1848, the son of Nathaniel and Mary Tucker Jenkins. In 1872 he and his brother Charles formed a partnership under the title of Jenkins Brothers, to continue the manufacture of valves and mechanical rubber goods, a business founded by their father. Later, on aqcuiring his brother's interest, Alfred B. changed the form of the organization into a company under the same title, distributing a portion of the stock among his employees. The enterprise was built up on the recognized merit of the product and the personality back of it. The broad and liberal attitude of the management is well known, but the personal charities and beneficence of the deceased are little known and unheralded, being considered by him as personal matters bearing their own reward in their doing. During the last two months he gave large sums to Dr. Troudeau's [sic] Memorial Hospital, Saranac Lake, N. Y., to the Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital, the New York Association for the Blind, and equipped the X-ray operating room of the Orange Hospital. In the founding of the Orange Free Library he took a lively and substantial interest. He was a veteran of the Civil War and a respected "comrade." He is survived by a widow and one daughter, Mrs. Farnham Yardley. The funeral services, held at his late home at 2:30 Sunday and conducted by Rev. Charles T. Walkley, were attended by a large number of his employees and friends,.