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Andrew Jenkins
The Rev. Andrew W. Jenkins (November 26, 1885, Jenkinsburg, Georgia – April 25, 1957, Thomaston, Georgia〔Green p. 37〕) was a leading composer of American country, folk and gospel songs. He is credited with more than 800 compositions, about a third of which were nonsacred.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Andrew Jenkins )〕 He and his stepchildren performed as the Jenkins Family, a group considered to be the first family act to record country music, while Jenkins himself was among the most important country composers of the 1920s.〔Carlin p. 204〕〔McNeil p. 204〕
==Early life==
Jenkins was born in 1885 in Jenkinsburg, Georgia, on the edge of Atlanta. He was left partially blind by a mis-prescribed medication while still an infant.〔Miller p. 160〕 Early on, he exhibited remarkable musical talents and was able to play almost any instrument he picked up, learning completely by ear. Jenkins, who also showed a proficiency for writing songs at a young age, saw his musical abilities as "a God gift."〔〔Peterson p. 242-243〕
Because he had some vision, Jenkins could not attend the state's school for the blind and had to pursue an education on his own. Besides his musical talents, he was skilled in other ways. After becoming a Methodist at the age of nine, he began "preaching" to playmates from porches and tree stumps.〔 Not surprisingly, he became a licensed preacher around the age of 21 and moved into the city, supplementing whatever he could earn from preaching and street performing by running a newspaper stand.〔Peterson p. 24〕 After his first wife's death, Jenkins married Francis Jane Walden Eskew in 1919.〔McNeil p. 205〕 A young widow, his new wife had three musically talented children, Irene, Mary Lee and a son, T.P.〔 Thus was born the Jenkins Family, one of the most popular family acts of its day.〔
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