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Joseph Jenckes Jr. (baptized October 12, 1628 – January 4, 1717), also spelled Jencks and Jenks, was the founder of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, where he erected a forge in 1671. After his mother and only sibling died in England, his father, Joseph Jenckes Sr. , immigrated to New England.
George Frederick Jenks (16 July 1916 – 29 December 1996) was an American geographer known for his significant contributions to cartography and geographic ...
One of the major issues concerning Rhode Island during Jenckes' terms of leadership was the boundary-line controversy with the neighboring Colony of Connecticut, and between his two terms as Deputy Governor Jenckes was in England with Richard Partridge to obtain royal intervention in this dispute. [1]
William Sprague III, Governor of Rhode Island and U.S. Senator [15] William Sprague IV, Governor of Rhode Island and U.S. Senator [15] Margaret Bingham Stillwell, bibliographer and librarian; Alfred Stone, Providence architect [3] Royal C. Taft, Governor of Rhode Island; George William Whitaker (1840–1916), the "Dean of Providence Painters" [10]
William Cole Cozzens – Mayor of Newport and Governor of Rhode Island, 1863; Henry Y. Cranston – United States Representative from Rhode Island and commander of the Artillery Company of Newport; Robert B. Cranston – United States Representative from Rhode Island; George T. Downing (1819–1903) – abolitionist, entrepreneur, restaurateur [6]
Miramar is a 30,000-square-foot (2,800 m 2) French neoclassical-style mansion on 7.8 acres (32,000 m 2) bordering Bellevue Avenue on Aquidneck Island at Newport, Rhode Island. Overlooking Rhode Island Sound , it was intended as a summer home for the George D. Widener family of Philadelphia .
“He continued to perform during treatment, playing his last show, a surprise appearance in Rhode Island, in early July,” Jimmy Buffett's Obituary Reveals Cause of Death, Private Cancer Battle ...
The Jenckes House is a historic house at 81 Jenckes Hill Road in Lincoln, Rhode Island.It is a 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-story wood-frame structure, five bays wide, with a central chimney.A 20th-century screened porch extends to the right side of the house, and a modern kitchen ell extends to the rear.