The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-09-06
Keokuk Loses One Of Her
Most Useful Citizens and
the State an Eminent
Physician.
AN OLD RESIDENT HERE
His Career Has Been Most
Prominent and Successful,
and His Death Brings
Universal Sorrow.

DIR. George F. Jenkins, one OF Keo-
kuk's most esteemed citizens and an
eminent physician, died at St Joseph,
hospital at $50 o'clock Friday even
ing It was meet that he should close
his eyes within the walls of an 1nstltu'
| ton for which he took an active ana
influential part in founding ana Oh
which he was the chief of the stan OF
I physicians and surgeons, always &C
| tive in promoting its progress and
pleased with its success. He had
been a sufferer there for number OF
DAYS. For some time it was known
that there was only the faintest spark
of hope left for saving his life.
/ "Oh, how this spring OF life resembletn
The uncertain glory Of an April day,
Which now shows all the beauty OF
/ the sun,
! And, by andiby, cloud takes all
away"
But the man who nobly does his
duty. whose acts are humane and
helpful the cloud that mars the sun
| 49, 49, -
but transitory and passes away before
the splendors Of glorious sun whose
sacred beams are shed in matchless
splenGor from another and better
world.
| II has been well said in Youngs
Night Thoughts:
How poor, how rich, how abtect, how
+! august,
How complicate. how wonderful IS
man!
How passing wonder He, who made
him such!"
But he is dead-he has crossed the
Thar. and he to us now Is only cher
ttsbed memory, whose commendable
deeds we begin to realize, appreciate
and, in our late appreciation, even are
prone to magnify. There are sad
hearts in Keokuk today. AS the news
was told to numbers OF people after
death had closed the eyes of the pa.
tent sufferer, although his passing
away had been expected for number
OF days. the people who had known
him so long showed the shock with
which each received the sad intelli
gence and exhibited the grief that
possessed them. There is no grief
more poignant as that when the great
destroyer takes from the family circle
devoted husband and a. loving faith
or. or from the community man who
has spent his life among the families
OF his neighbors in relieving suffering
and bringing their loved ones back tc
health or whose wisdom had always
been directed along the line OF ths
better way.
death is the crown Of life
Was death denied, poor man woulc
live in vain.
| Death wounds to cure; we fall, We
rise, we reign,
l Spring from our letters, fasten to The
Il skies,
/ Where blooming Eden withers from
II This king of terrors Is the prince O.
peace"
His Eminent Career.
DR.. Jenkins was born in Clark coun
ty, Missouri, in July, 1912, whose par
, ents were Robert and Elizabeth
: | (Ranbo) Jenkins. The family Is o
I WEIGH lineage and the ancestry II
! America can be traced back to Davit
I jenkins, the great-great-grandfath o
| DR.. Jenkins who became resident o
/ Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, il
4 the year 100. Through several gen
/ eratfons the family was connected
\ with the iron works of Conestoga
i Pennsylvania, being among the oldes
4 representatives of that great iron In
/ dustry Of the Keystone state. TIL
4 mill and plant at Conestoga were II
! possession of the family for one hun
dred and thirty-seven years, terminal
ing in 1887.
I Robert Jenkins, the father Of d.
Jenkins. was born near the old ar
cestral home in Lancaster county an
/ became an emigrant to the west, SCI
Ting in Clark county, Missouri, i
1897. For long period he made tina
county his home and reared his fan
. lily there. His wife's ancestors cam
49, TO the United States with a Swedis
- colony about 1865 and were colonis
settlers of Chester county, Pennsy
vanfa. Her grandfather Ezekial Ran
DO, espoused the cause OF the colonie
\, Ii at the time of the revolutionary wa
/ and die valiant service for the colonist
and the cause of liberty. Mr.. an
Mrs. jenkins, father and mother
y DIR. Jenkins were married in Pennsy
- vania, but the greater part of the
married life was passed in Missouri
IN. They were members of the Presbyte