John Jenkins (penmanship)

John Jenkins (1755–1822) was an American schoolteacher who wrote the first entirely American book on penmanship, The Art of Writing, Reduced to a Plain and Easy System, first printed in 1791 by Isaiah Thomas.

[1] It consisted of 32 pages of text, four plates of engraved writing samples and a frontispiece.

[2] It was recommended by John Adams,[2] Benjamin Franklin and John Hancock.

[1] Jenkins' system became the standard in America,[2] and a revised second edition was published in 1813 by Flagg & Gould.

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