About Therese A. Jenkins
Lived 1853 – 1936 (aged 82–83). Therese A. Jenkins was an American suffragist.
Therese Alberta Parkinson Jenkins (May 1, 1853 – February 28, 1936) was an American suffragist, credited with saving women's suffrage in the State of Wyoming. She was the first woman delegate to any Republican National Convention, the one in Minneapolis in 1892.
Personal life
Parkinson moved from Wisconsin to Wyoming in 1877. On December 20, 1877, she married James Flood Jenkins (1852-1928), a commissary clerk and later wealthy merchant of Cheyenne, Wyoming. She had four children: May Jenkins (1879-1879), Elsie C. Jenkins (b. 1881), Horace M. Jenkins (b. 1882) and Agnes W. Jenkins (b. 1889).
She died on February 28, 1936, and is buried at Lakeview Cemetery, Cheyenne, with her husband.
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American suffragist
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Therese A. Jenkins was born in 1853 in Lafayette County.
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Therese A. Jenkins died in 1936.
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Therese A. Jenkins was a suffragist.
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Therese A. Jenkins was American.
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