Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Howard Malcolm JENKINS
He was educated at the widely known Gwynedd boarding school kept by Hugh Foulke. He taught school for one winter term in New Britian Township, Bucks County, and 1862 in partnership with Wilmer Atkinson (whose sister he later married) he bought the Norristown Republican and conducted it and its successor, the Norristown Herald, with which the Republican was merged in 1864, as editor, until 1868. In the latter year, he removed to Wilmington, where he and his partner, Wilmer Atkinson, founded the Daily Commercial, the first daily newspaper published in the state of Delaware. They sold out the paper in 1877, and Howard M. Jenkins was connected withe the Philadelphia Times and
the Village Record of West Chester, until 1881, when he became editor of the American (Philadelphia), with which he was connected until 1891. He had, however, purchased the Journal (Philadelphia) in 1884, and upon the merging of the latter with The Friends' Intelligencer in 1885, he became chief editor of the combined paper continued to fill that posiition until his sudden death as the result of a fall at Bucks Hills Falls, Pa. 11 Oct. 1902.
In addition to his work as a newspaper editor and a contributer to a number of journals of high standing, Howard M. Jenkins did a vast amount of miscellaneous literary works. In 1884, he wrote "Historical Collections relating to Gwynedd," a local history of his native township, a model of its kind, which reached a second edition in 1897. Among his other writings which have attracted wide attention are Volume I of the "Memorial Hitory of Philadelphia," "The Family of William Penn," considered the authority on the family of the founder; a large number of essays, historical sketches, and pamphlets; and "Pennsylvania: Colonial and Federal," in three volumes, which was not entirely completed at the time of his death and was published in 1907.
Howard was a delegate to the National Convention which nominated General Grant and was the candidate of his party for the United States Senate in the state of Delaware. Interested in education, he was an important member of the committee which founded George School and for a number of years he was a manager of Swarthmore College. He was the founder and first President of the Buck Hills Falls Company, and occupied other positions of trust and civic efforts.
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