Charles F. Jenkins (Quaker)

Charles Francis Jenkins (17 December 1865 – 1951) was an American Quaker and historian.

He lived in Wilmington, Delaware, and West Chester, Pennsylvania, where he completed his basic education.

[1] Jenkins's early career was at the Farm Journal, which had been founded by his uncle Wilmer Atkinson.

[1] He was a member and president of the Buck Hill Falls Company for fifty years, and a member and president of the Board of Managers of Swarthmore College for forty years.

[2] He was a noted horticulturist who collected hemlocks and created the Hemlock Arboretum at his home in Germantown and campaigned to have the plant selected as the state tree of Pennsylvania.