He was an agent on the Underground Railroad. At age 26 he moved to Columbus, Ohio. An abolitionist, he co-founded a short-lived abolitionist paper in Columbus. He then became a school teacher. During the Civil War he served in the 127th Ohio Infantry. After the war he worked for the Freedmens Bureau in Mississippi.[6]
He and Alfred Handy, another African American state legislator for Madison County, were warned about opposing "honest rule" in a notice run in the Canton Mail in 1876.[8]
^"American Citizen, September 9, 1876 – Against All Odds".
^Levstik, Frank R (October 1975). "DAVID JENKINS: EAGLE THAT IS FORGOTTON". Negro History Bulletin. 38 (7): 464. ProQuest 1296735759.
^"Cincinnati Enquirer, January 25, 1872 – Against All Odds". much-ado.net.
^"Clarion-Ledger, January 7, 1877 – Against All Odds". much-ado.net.
^Snodgrass, Mary Ellen (March 26, 2015). The Underground Railroad: An Encyclopedia of People, Places, and Operations. Routledge. ISBN9781317454168 – via Google Books.
^"Clarion Ledger, February 17, 1876 – Against All Odds".
^Elections, United States Congress Senate Committee on Privileges and (October 14, 1877). "Mississippi: Testimony as to Denial of Elective Franchise in Mississippi at the Elections of 1875 and 1876: Taken Under the Resolution of the Senate of December 5, 1876". U.S. Government Printing Office – via Google Books.
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