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BARBOUR COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA
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Submitted to the West Virginia Biographies Project by:
Valerie & Tommy Crook
vfcrook@earthlink.net
July 16, 2000
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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume III,
pg. 503
Barbour
ALBERT GALLETIN JENKINS. Of the men called to the
service of the state government at Charleston by Governor
Morgan in the spring of 3921, one is A. G. Jenkins, state
pardon attorney. Prior to that time he had made a success-
ful record as a lawyer in his home county of Barbour.
He was born at Philippi in Barbour County, November
27, 1874, son of Henry Middleton Jenkins, of the same
county, and grandson of Jonathan Lewis and Manda Jell-
kins, who came from Loudoun County, Virginia. Henry M.
Jenking, who died in 1916, was for many years a member
of his local school board in Barbour County and also justice
of the peace.
A. G. Jenkins finished his normal school education at
Fairmont, and for nine years gave his time to teaching
school in Barbour County. He was elected and served four
years as county superintendent of schools. Among other
educational advantages he pursued a business course at
Parkersburg in 1890. In 1907 he graduated from the law
school of West Virginia University, and has been a member
of the Barbour County bar for fifteen years. He was elected
on the republican ticket, and served four years as prose-
cuting attorney. Governor Morgan made him pardon at-
torney in March, 1921.
Mr. Jenkins has been active in republican campaigns in
his home county. He is an out-door man, and spends his
vacations usually along streams and in the forests and
mountain sections of the state. He is affiliated with the
Knights of Pythias, Junior Order United American Me-
chanics and Woodmen of the World.
Mr. Jenkins married Miss Hazel Elizabeth Miller, of
Barbour County. They have a daughter, Pauline, now in
high school at Charleston.
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