Stephen Rice Jenkins (November 12, 1858 – September 15, 1929) was a physician and political figure in

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. He represented

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in the

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from 1912 to 1919 as a

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member. He was born in

Charlottetown Charlottetown is the capital and largest city of the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island, and the county seat of Queens County. Named after Queen Charlotte, Charlottetown was an unincorporated town until it was incorporated as a city in ...

, the son of

John Theophilus Jenkins John Theophilus Jenkins (October 12, 1829 – January 17, 1919) was a physician and political figure in Prince Edward Island. He represented Charlottetown in the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island from 1873 to 1876 and Queen's Coun ...

and Jessica Esther Rice, and was educated there and at King's College in

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. Jenkins went on to study medicine at the

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and practiced at the

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. He returned to the island in 1885, practicing at

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and then Cardigan before moving to Charlottetown in 1888. In 1886, he married Ellen Josephine Sweeney. Raised as an

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, Jenkins became a

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before his marriage. He was named a surgeon for the militia, eventually becoming an honorary lieutenant-colonel for his unit. He ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the provincial assembly in 1900 before being elected in 1912. He served as a minister without portfolio in the provincial cabinet. Jenkins was a member of the Canadian Army Medical Corps during

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. He later helped establish a veteran's hospital at Charlottetown. Jenkins was senior surgeon at

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and chief of staff at

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. He served as president for the Maritime Medical Association and was president for the

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in 1928 and 1929. He helped establish the Prince Edward Island

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and served as its secretary. He was also president of the Anti-Tuberculosis Society and chair of the provincial branch of the

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. Jenkins also served on the Charlottetown school board. He died of

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in Charlottetown in 1929. His brother

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also served in the provincial assembly.

External links

Biography at the ''Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online''
1858 births 1929 deaths People from Charlottetown Progressive Conservative Party of Prince Edward Island MLAs Physicians from Prince Edward Island Deaths from pneumonia in Prince Edward Island Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps officers Canadian military personnel from Prince Edward Island Canadian military personnel of World War I {{PrinceEdwardIsland-politician-stub