Given the question: Facts: - profession: music and drama critic , journalist - death date: december 9 , 1894 - spouse: julia , d. february 24 , 1919 -rrb- . m. clark -lrb- m. march 20 , 1865 - children: edwin m. jenks - birth date: june 2 , 1838 - name: francis henry jenks - death place: roxbury , massachusetts - birth place: nantucket , massachusetts - alma mater: boston latin school -lrb- 1851 -rrb- . Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of francis h. jenks .
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francis henry jenks -lrb- june 2 , 1838 -- december 9 , 1894 -rrb- was a 19th-century theater critic in boston whose work appeared in the '' boston globe '' , '' the boston daily advertiser '' , '' the boston courier '' and '' the boston evening transcript '' newspapers , '' the new england '' magazine , '' grove dictionary of music and musicians '' , and other publications .jenks was music and dramatic editor of '' the boston evening transcript '' from 1881 to 1894 .jenks donated a number of theater-related items to the collection of the boston athenum .