An Illustrated History of Central Oregon, Western Historical Publishing Company,
Spokane, WA. 1905, pages 272-273.

CAREY H. JENKINS, D.M.D., is one of the younger professional men of Hood River,
who has achieved a worthy success and bids fair to be one of the leading
dentists of the entire northwest. He is a careful and conscientious student,
tireless in his research and thorough in every detail of his important
profession. His endowments by nature have especially fitted him for this line of
work and the careful and extended training in the best institutions of the west
have so fortified him that he is master of dentistry and dental surgery in a
high degree.      

Carey B. Jenkins was born in The Dalles, Oregon, on October 2, 1874, the son of
James H. and Hattie (Bolton) Jenkins, natives of Missouri and Iowa,
respectively. The father was a heavy stockman and died at Columbus, Washington,
when our subject was thirteen. The mother came with her parents across the
plains in 1849 and was married in The Dalles. Her family settled on Fifteenmile
creek when The Dalles was but a post for government soldiers and Grant and
Sherman were there. Carey's father first came to California in the forties with
his parents. His grandfather was engaged in mining and in the fifties they moved
to southern Oregon.      

Later they came to Klickitat county, Washington, being pioneers there and our
subject's father's father bought the old block house on Spring creek. His mother
died when he was twelve years old and later he went to live with an uncle,
Simeon Bolton, now clerk of Wasco county. Carey H. Jenkins was educated in the
schools of Klickitat county and then entered the Portland University, completing
a three years' course. He entered the North Pacific Dental College in October,
1898, graduated in 1901, and commenced practice in Portland. In November, 1901,
he came to Hood River and since then has secured a fine practice and has made a
success in which he may well take pride.  
    
At The Dalles, on October 10, 1899, Mr. Jenkins married Miss Ethel Riddell, who
was born near Corvallis, Oregon. Her father, George H. Riddell, was born in
Brooklyn and came west around the Horn, in 1852. He settled in Salem and spent
the greater part of his life as a contractor and builder. According to the
family record, Mr. Riddell's ancestors came from Scotland to Holland in 1608,
and the next year migrated to the New World, settling where Brooklyn now stands.
The Brewers were, also, in the company. George H. Riddell's
great-great-grandfather, on his mother's side, was a Brewer and married a
daughter of Anaca Jens. Angeline (Hamilton) Riddell, Mrs. Jenkins' mother, was
born in 1847, while her parents were crossing the plains. Her people were
southerners and her father held slaves before the war. Dr. Jenkins has one
brother, Coke, and one sister, Josephine. Mrs. Jenkins has three brothers,
Hayward, Clyde and Xenophen, and three sisters, Grace Parish, Maybel, and
Bessie. To Dr. and Mrs. Jenkins two children have been born, Boyd, aged three,
and Louise, one year old. Dr. Jenkins is a member of the K.P., and is very
popular in fraternal circles. He and his wife belong to the United Presbyterian
church. Politically, he is a stanch Republican, but not active.


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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in January 2005 by Jeffrey L. Elmer. 
Submitter has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned
above.