Edward A. Jenks (1830-1908) was born in Newport, New Hampshire, and died in Concord, New Hampshire. He was a printer, editor, proofreader, author, poet, and businessman. He moved to Concord in 1846 and learned the printing business. In 1852 he moved to Manchester, New Hampshire, where he became a part-owner of the Manchester Union, published the journals American Messenger and Daily American, and was employed as a proofreader in several publishing houses. Also in 1852 he married Harriet S. Jenks (b. Stickney) in Newport. He thereafter engaged in various business ventures in New York, New York; Cincinnati, Ohio; and Vicksburg, Mississippi. Jenks returned to Concord in 1869 and became the business manager and treasurer of the Republican Press Association, the executive commissioner for New Hampshire at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, the public printer of the state of New Hampshire, and the official reporter of its supreme court decisions. In 1889 he was awarded an honorary Master of Arts degree from Dartmouth College.
After retirement from active business in 1892, Jenks dedicated himself to literary pursuits, including writing and publishing original essays as well as a volume of poems titled The Spinning-Wheel at Rest, from which on one occasion he recited aloud to Eddy in her Pleasant View home and gifted her an inscribed copy. Eddy's favorite poem from that volume, "Going and Coming," was published in the March 1899 number of The Christian Science Journal, and other of Jenks' poems were occasionally published in the Journal and the Christian Science Sentinel as well. Jenks and Eddy were neighbors in Concord from 1889 to 1908, and Eddy thought highly of his scholarship and writing. In the late 1890s she engaged Jenks to review and edit some of her own writings, including Christian Science Versus Pantheism and several of her Messages to The Mother Church.
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Edward A. Jenks (1830-1908) was born in Newport, New Hampshire, and died in Concord, New Hampshire. He was a printer, editor, proofreader, author, poet, and businessman. He moved to Concord in 1846 and learned the printing business. In 1852 he moved to Manchester, New Hampshire, where he became a part-owner of the Manchester Union, published the journals American Messenger and Daily American, and was employed as a proofreader in several publishing houses. Also in 1852 he married Harriet S. Jenks (b. Stickney) in Newport. He thereafter engaged in various business ventures in New York, New York; Cincinnati, Ohio; and Vicksburg, Mississippi. Jenks returned to Concord in 1869 and became the business manager and treasurer of the Republican Press Association, the executive commissioner for New Hampshire at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, the public printer of the state of New Hampshire, and the official reporter of its supreme court decisions. In 1889 he was awarded an honorary Master of Arts degree from Dartmouth College.
After retirement from active business in 1892, Jenks dedicated himself to literary pursuits, including writing and publishing original essays as well as a volume of poems titled The Spinning-Wheel at Rest, from which on one occasion he recited aloud to Eddy in her Pleasant View home and gifted her an inscribed copy. Eddy's favorite poem from that volume, "Going and Coming," was published in the March 1899 number of The Christian Science Journal, and other of Jenks' poems were occasionally published in the Journal and the Christian Science Sentinel as well. Jenks and Eddy were neighbors in Concord from 1889 to 1908, and Eddy thought highly of his scholarship and writing. In the late 1890s she engaged Jenks to review and edit some of her own writings, including Christian Science Versus Pantheism and several of her Messages to The Mother Church.
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