Therese A. Jenkins

Therese Alberta Parkinson Jenkins (May 1, 1853 - February 28, 1936) was a suffragist, credited with saving women's suffrage in the State of Wyoming.

She was the daughter of the Peter "Badger Pete" Parkinson (1813-1895), one of the pioneers of Wisconsin, who fought in the Black Hawk War and won military honors, and Cleantha Stone Welch (1825-1863).

In April 1889, she contributed to the Popular Science a striking paper entitled "The Mental Force of Woman", in reply to Professor Cope's article on "The Relation of the Sexes to the Government", in a preceding number of that journal.

[3] Jenkins and Cora Georgiana Snow Carleton were sent as alternate delegates to the Republican national convention in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1892.

On December 20, 1877, she married James Flood Jenkins (1852-1928), a commissary clerk and later wealthy merchant of Cheyenne, Wyoming.