at Treemount Seminary, under Rev. Samuel Aaron. At a very early age he entered, from the school, the office of his uncle, Dr. William Corson, in 1845, and graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1849, about the time of his majority.

The great war between Russia and Turkey and the allies of the latter breaking out, Dr. Read, young and enterprising, offered his services to the former power. Bearing the requisite credentials, he sailed for Russia, entered her service in 1855 as surgeon, and remained there during the war and through the terrible siege of Sebastopol. After the war he spent six months in the hospitals of Paris as an addition towards the completion of his medical education.

In the autumn of 1857 he opened an office in Norristown and commenced the practice of medicine and surgery. His recent extensive opportunities in the latter branch of his profession, joined to his gentle, sympathizing deportment with the sick, soon gave him the lead in that branch of practice.

In 1858 Dr. Read married Georgine, daughter of Alfred Hurst, and there have been born to them two children, Nina B. and Alfred H.

On the breaking out of the rebellion in 1861, although in the possession of a first-class and lucrative practice, Dr. Read offered his services and experience to the government, and in May, 1861, was appointed Surgeon of the First Pennsylvania Reserves, the first three years regiment. He was subsequently promoted to the rank of Surgeon of United States volunteers in October, and assigned to duty as Medical Director of the Pennsylvania Reserve Corps, Third Division, Fifth Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, which place he filled until November, 1864, when he was relieved of duty in the field and placed in charge of the McKimm United States General Hospital at Baltimore. He continued at that place until the return of peace, or till March, 1866, when the institution was closed and the officials mustered out of the United States service.

It may be related in connection with Dr. Read's service as army surgeon that in all human probability he was the means of saving the life of General Hancock while the latter was at

his father's house in Norristown and the doctor at home on a brief visit to his family. The General's wound had been repeatedly probed for the ball to no purpose, and he was in despair of any recovery from the wound, when Dr. R. happened to visit him and volunteered to make a search for the bullet that had never been found. By considering the attitude of General H. when he was wounded, and probing in the proper direction, the ball was at once removed, the General rapidly recovered, and the next year was well enough to swoop down on the rebellion at Spottsylvania and give it the coup de grace. This providential relief of General Hancock was more than an accidental achievement, and well corresponds with the enter-prise and self-reliance that at twenty-two years of age led him to enlist in a distant foreign army with a view of obtaining the highest qualifications in his profession.

In April, 1866, after an absence and public service of nearly five years, Dr. Read returned to the office and resumed practice with experience still more enlarged by such an extended tour of duty in the field and hospitals of the nation. Soon aftercoming home he purchased the spacious mansion on Main. street below Green, which he enlarged by adding a third story, and otherwise refitting and beautifying, providing also for an office in the basement.

During the past thirteen years Dr. Read has been attending to a very large and laborious practice, taxing his health, time. and strength to the utmost.

On the election of General Hartranft as Governor of Pennsylvania, and the reorganization of the Pennsylvania National. Guard, Dr. Read was appointed Surgeon General, and at the beginning of Hartranft's second term was reappointed, which position he held till the inauguration of Governor Hoyt, when. he was appointed a third time.

In 1877 Governor Hartranft appointed Dr. R. to the very responsible position of commissioner for the erection of an asy-lum for the insane of the southeastern counties of the State. This trust involved the selection of a site, choice of a plan, and the construction of the buildings, all of which duties, at great sacrifice of his private business, has been patriotically performed to the satisfaction of the public.

CHARLES F. JENKINS.

Let justice have its impartial course and the law free passage. Though to your loss, protect no man against it; for you are not above the law, but the law above you.-William Penn.

Charles Foulke Jenkins was born in Gwynedd township, Montgomery county, on the 18th of March, 1793, and died at his native place on the 5th of February, 1867, in his seventyfourth year.

We turn aside here to relate what is known of the genealogy of the family, which is Welsh, as the name indicates. The paternal descent of the Jenkins family is as follows:

Jenkin Jenkins, born in Wales in 1659, came over about 1729, and settled near Lansdale, understood to be the farm where for many years John Jenkins resided. John Jenkins, just mentioned, is still living, at the advanced age of ninetyfive, with his son-in-law, Abel Lukens, of North Wales. Jenkin Jenkins died in September, 1745.

John Jenkins, son of the above, born also in Wales, in 1719, came over with his father, married Sarah Hawkesworth, and died in July, 1803.

Edward Jenkins, son of the above, born July 12th, 1758, married Sarah Foulke, of Richland, who were the parents of the subject of this memorial.

Charles F. Jenkins, son of the above, married Mary, daughter of Thomas Lancaster, of Whitemarsh.

His father, Edward Jenkins, had purchased in 1794 the property on what was then called the North Wales road (now the Spring House and Sumneytown turnpike road), just above the Gwynedd Friends' meeting. This had originally been the property of Jacob Wentz, of Worcester, and had been used as a tavern during the Revolution, General Lacey's brigade of militia having its headquarters there at times. Edward Jenkins used it as a store, and after his death in 1829 his son Charles F. continued the same business therein until his death in 1867, since which time his son, William H., of the third generation, continues it. The building which the latter occupies now was partly built by Jacob Wentz in 1768, and partly by Edward Jenkins in 1784.

The maternal ancestry of Charles F. Jenkins is also worthy of notice. The Foulkes, by a memorandum left by Edward Foulke, trace their descent back to Ririd Blaidd of the Pool who was Lord of Penllyn in North Wales. The family in the United States is counted from Edward Foulke, a settler from Merionethshire, Wales, who, with others, in 1698 took up land in Gwynedd township. Our subject's maternal grandfather was Theophilus Foulke, of Richland, Bucks county.

Charles F. Jenkins was engaged in mercantile business in Philadelphia for several years previous to his father's death,. and then (1830) returned to Gwynedd, taking his father's place, and there continuing during his life-time, as has been stated. He was a public-spirited citizen, active in all public affairs, an officer for many years of the Philadelphia and Bethlehem Turnpike Road Company; instrumental in the construction of the turnpike road from Spring House to Sumneytown, and President of the corporation for many years; a director of the Bank of Montgomery County; an officer for years of the Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Montgomery County; active as a school director, and in other public capacities, while he was repeatedly a candidate of his party (Whig, and then Republican) for positions of honor and responsibility, though sharing the defeat of the party ticket in Montgomery county. With Philip Super and John Thompson he acted as a commissioner to lay out the extension of the borough of Norristown, about twenty-five years ago, and was one of those well known and well respected citizens of the county habitually selected for similar duties. He was a man of more than ordinary intelligence, had received a good education from the celebrated! Enoch Lewis, of Chester county (father of the present Hon.. Joseph J. Lewis), at his school at New Garden, and continued. a great reader during life. He was also a man thoroughly in-formed on public affairs, taking a keen and intelligent interest in all matters connected with the common weal.

Charles F. and Mary Jenkins left but two children, Algernon Sidney, born in Philadelphia on the 28th of November, 1816, and William H., whose birthday was on the 14th of April, 1827.

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Algernon S. Jenkins, well known throughout the county as a Justice of the Peace and business man, occupies part of the estate of his father, in Gwynedd. He was elected a Justice of that township in 1846, and by successive elections since that time has been continued in the office. What has been said of his father as to public spirit and capacity to serve the community may be said with equal truth as to him. He has repeatedly been honored with the nomination of his party for legislative and other offices, though not elected, owing to the adverse majority. Mr. Jenkins has been twice married, and has two sons, Howard M. and George Herbert.

His son, Howard M., very early developed a talent for letters, commencing to correspond as a literary contributor, and sometimes even on political topics, as early as his sixteenth year. His writings used to appear almost weekly in the Republican, published in Norristown, over the nom de plume of "Richard Random." During that time he wrote a well drawn story, running through several numbers, entitled "Eastbrook Meadows." In 1862, in connection with Wilmer Atkinson, he bought the paper just named, and of which the author of this book had been editor and proprietor for several years. Subsequently, when that paper was sold, he was for a short time one of the editors of the Herald, located in the same town. After leaving Norristown he went to Wilmington, Delaware, and, with his former partner of the Republican, founded the Daily Commercial. On the 1st of April, 1877, after having been in charge of it for ten and a half years, and conducting it with marked ability, he sold it and retired for a partial rest from excessive labors.

Howard M. Jenkins, Esq., was born March 30th, 1842, and in March, 1865, married Mary Anna, daughter of Thomas Atkinson, of Upper Dublin. They have five surviving children, three sons and two daughters.