Hi Listers - I have Debbie's permission to repost these bios to any appropriate list. Her only request is that you continue to make the information free for all to use. Lisa A Narrative History of The People of Iowa with SPECIAL TREATMENT OF THEIR CHIEF ENTERPRISES IN EDUCATION, RELIGION, VALOR, INDUSTRY, BUSINESS, ETC. by EDGAR RUBEY HARLAN, LL. B., A. M. Curator of the Historical, Memorial and Art Department of Iowa Volume IV THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Inc. Chicago and New York 1931 WALTER L. JENKINS, secretary of the Kimball Brothers Company of Council Bluffs, elevator manufacturers, has been identified with that important industry since the close of the World war, in which he saw service overseas. Mr. Jenkins was born November 24, 1892, in Chicago, Illinois, where his parents, Lott and Virginia Daisey (Boxley) Jenkins, still reside. His father was born in Wales, at Morristown, son of John Jenkins, who came to the United States and lived out his life here. Lott Jenkins for many years was connected with the American Steel & Wire Company as superintendent of mills, but is now retired. His wife as born in Spottsylvania County, Virginia, a daughter of William E. Boxley, a native of the same state. William E. Boxley when a boy ran away from home to join the Union army, and later for number of years was engaged in the transfer business in Chicago. After the war he went back to Virginia and became reconciled with his southern father for his act of joining the ranks of the enemy. Lott Jenkins and wife are members of the Baptist Church and he is a Republican in politics and belongs to the Royal Arcanum. They had a family of four children: Edith, wife of Leland Tilton, a farmer at Ashton, Illinois; Gertrude Jane, wife of W. Lovering, who conducts an automobile accessory business in Chicago and lives on a farm at Shabbona, Illinois; Walter L.; and Dorothy Boxley, a graduate of the Crane Technical High School in Chicago now attending Chicago University. Walter L. Jenkins attended high school at DeKalb, Illinois, was graduated in 1913 from the Northern Illinois State Normal School at DeKalb, and until the war was engaged in educational work as a manual training instructor. He was instructor at Rupert, Idaho, until 1917. Mr. Jenkins is a talented singer and for one year was engaged in Chautauqua work. In 1917 he was appointed instructor in manual training at the Council Bluff's public schools, but resigned to join the Second Officers Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, and received his commission as second lieutenant of artillery in November, 1917. He went overseas with the One Hundred Nineteenth Field Artillery, Thirty-second Division, and was in France sixteen months. He was wounded during the great Agronne drive, and in consequence was absent from active duty for three months. He received his honorable discharge in June, 1919, and soon afterward joined the Kimball Brothers Company at Council Bluffs and has since become secretary of the corporation. He married in 1920 Miss Ruth Kimball, a daughter of W. H. Kimball, one of the founders of this Council Bluffs industry. Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins have a daughter, Martha Jean, born in 1923, and a son, Walter Kimball, born in 1929. Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins are members of the Congregational Church, but Mr. Jenkins sings in the choir of a Methodist Church at Omaha. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, a past exalted ruler of B. P. O. Elks Lodge No. 531, is a member of the American Legion Post and the Rotary Club. Debbie Clough Gerischer gerischer.rootsweb.com/ Iowa History Site iagenweb.org/history/index.htm Scott County celticcousins.net/scott/index.htm