Frances C. Jenkins | |
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| Personal life | |
| Born | Frances Clanton Wiles April 13, 1826 |
| Died | December 14, 1915 Kansas City, Missouri, U.S. |
| Resting place | Wabash, Indiana, U.S. |
| Spouse |
Benjamin F. Jenkins
(m. 1843; died 1889) |
| Children | 11 |
| Known for | |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Quakers |
| Church | Friends' Church, 30th Street and Bales Avenue, Kansas City, Missouri |
| Profession | minister |
Frances C. Jenkins (née, Wiles; April 13, 1826 – December 14, 1915) was an American evangelist, Quaker minister, and social reformer, involved in the temperance and suffrage movements of the day. While in Illinois, she served as a vice-president of the state's Woman's Christian Temperance Union (W.C.T.U.).[1] She came to Kansas City, Missouri about 1880 and was active in church and club work there. It was chiefly through her influence that the Friends' Church at 30th Street and Bales Avenue was organized in that city in 1882. Several times since 1890, Jenkins was pastor of this church. In Kansas City, she was the first president of the Federation of Women's Clubs and was also president of the first equal suffrage organization in that town.[2]
- ^ Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice (1893). "JENKINS, Mrs. Frances C.". A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life. Charles Wells Moulton. p. 419.
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- ^ "END TO MRS. FRANCES JENKINS". The Kansas City Star. 14 December 1915. p. 9. Retrieved 15 October 2022 – via Newspapers.com. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
