Theron P. Jenkins    

Jenkins, Theron P., Russell P. O., Farmington, was born in Farmington, December 23, 1846. He was a son of Joseph and Sophronia (Weatherby) Jenkins. His father was a native of Boston, was a blacksmith by trade, and settled in Pine Grove in 1823, where he worked at his trade until 1837, when he settled in what is now Russellburg, on the farm which is now owned and occupied by Theron J., a part of which he cleared and improved, and on which he resided until the time, of his death, which occurred August 4, 1866, aged sixty years. His children were Weston, Matilda, Almeda, Eldridge, Almira, Myron, Rachel, Orlinda, and Theron P. Theron P.’s maternal grandparents were Samuel and Abigail (Eddy) Weatherby, who settled in Farmington in 1835. Theron P. succeeded to the homestead farm of his father. He was married in 1872 to Mary A., daughter of B.F. and Maria (Gifford) Palmeter, of Kiantone, N.Y. They have had two children born to them— Frank F. and Willie D.

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