Jenkins, George Carrell
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Jenkins, George Carrell
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George Carrell Jenkins was a wealthy businessman, a Confederate veteran and Lost Cause supporter, and the donor of funds to construct two buildings on Loyola University Maryland's campus.
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George Carrell Jenkins, descendant of some of Maryland’s earliest Catholic colonists, was born in Baltimore in 1836. His grandfather, William Jenkins IV, established a successful tanning business in Baltimore in the late 1700s. The Jenkins family further built its fortunes through business ventures including banking, insurance, finance, and real estate. George Jenkins graduated from Mount St. Mary’s College in 1855 and in 1862 became a private in the Confederate Army, First Maryland Calvary, Company C, remaining with the unit until the end of the Civil War. Over the course of his life, Jenkins oversaw numerous businesses, including the Savings Bank of Baltimore, the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Railroad, and the Maryland Life Insurance Company, among others.
In the 1920s Jenkins became Loyola’s largest benefactor to date when he donated funds to build a science building (1923) and a library (1929). The science building, originally known as the George C. Jenkins Science Center, was renovated and renamed Beatty Hall in 1980. The library building, now used for other academic and administrative purposes, continues to bear the name Jenkins Hall. George Jenkins died on June 5, 1930. His Baltimore Sun obituary describes him as one of the oldest Confederate veterans in Maryland. Loyola's student newspaper noted in its obituary of Jenkins that he "always remained loyal to the 'lost cause'" and often took "delight in later years to recount his experiences in the days of the great conflict."
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15 October 1836
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5 June 1930
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"George C. Jenkins Rites Tomorrow," Baltimore Sun, June 6, 1930, p. 26.
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Mayer, Brantz. Baltimore: Past and Present. With biographical sketches of its representative men. Baltimore: Richardson & Bennett, 1871, p. 321-324.
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