"A HISTORY OF THE DAVIESS-McLEAN BAPTIST ASSOCIATION IN KENTUCKY, 
1844-1943" by Wendell H. Rone.  Probably published in 1944 by 
Messenger Job Printing Co., Inc., Owensboro, Kentucky, pp. 396-398.  
Used by permission.  [Jefferson]

MILLARD ALFORD JENKENS, D.D.:  Dr. Millard A. Jenkens is widely known 
in both the North and the South as one of the leading preachers of 
the Baptist Denomination.  He was born in Buncombe County, near 
Biltmore, North Carolina, on November 17, 1872.  His father was 
Alford J. Jenkens and his mother was Miss Nancy Jones.  In the union 
of this couple there was brought together the racial streams of 
Welsh, Scotch, and Irish, and in Dr. Jenkens, the characteristics are 
very pronouned [sic].  Reared on a mountain farm where he learned to 
toil, this school of hard knocks taught him self-control, persistence, 
and endurance.
	At an early age he joined the Methodists.  They preached falling 
from grace and young Jenkens practiced it, but the Holy Spirit gripped 
his heart and he felt the heavenly call to enter the ministry.  With 
the New Testament as his book and the Holy Spirit as his guide he 
pondered the great truths of the Gospel.  He became a Baptist, much to 
the displeasure of some of his own people, but they soon became 
reconciled, and the family almost entirely became Baptists.  A nephew 
who was a Methodist becoming a prominent Baptist preacher.
	He attended school at Brent Creek High School and Sand Hill 
Academy.  He also attended Judson College three years and pursued an 
elective course at Wake Forrest College in North Carolina for a time.  
While at Hopkinsville, Kentucky, Bethel College conferred on him the 
Degree of Doctor of Divinity.
	He was ordained by the French Broad Avenue Baptist Church, 
Asheville, North Carolina, in September, 1892.  He served the 
Biltmore and Waynesville, N. C., Churches, as a boy preacher and 
edited for some time the Western North Carolina Baptist published at 
Waynesville.  In the years 1896-1898 he served the Tattnali Square 
Church at Macon, Georgia.  In 1899-1901 he served the East Side 
Church at Macon, Georgia, where he led the Church in a great 
missionary revival, which was the sensation of the city and the 
entire Southern Baptist Convention.  A large new building was 
completed while there.  We next find him at Dublin, Georgia, where he 
labored from 1902 to 1905.  Four hundred were added to the 
membership, a new Sunday School annex was completed, and the 
foundations for a new Church were laid.  In the fall of 1906 he came 
to Hopkinsville, Kentucky, and labored for three years.  After 
serving for two years at the First Church of Athens, Georgia, he 
assumed the pastorate of the First Baptist Church, Owensboro, 
Kentucky, and served here in the year 1911-1912.  He served the 22nd 
and Walnut Street Church in Louisville in 1913 and the Calvary Church 
at Asheville, N. C., in 1914-1915 and at the close of the last 
mentioned pastorate went to Abilene, Texas, where he served 
consecutively from 1915 to 1942, a period of twenty-seven years.  He 
is now retired from activity.
	He married Miss Margaret Holman of Athens, Georgia, on June 14, 
1911.  She was the daughter of Col. and Mrs. W. S. Holman.  Two sons 
and two daughters blessed this union.  His first wife, Miss Maryetta 
Sales, lost her life in giving herself to the sick and distressed 
during an epidemic brought by the soldiers from Cuba.  This was in 
1899.  She was of his native mountain county.
	He has served as President of the General Convention of Texas 
Baptists and has served on the Executive Board of the Southern 
Baptist Convention.  He also served as Moderator of the Sweetwater 
Baptist Association in Texas and has served as a Trustee of Hardin-
Simmons University in the same state.  He is also the author of a 
number of books of sermons and other items of interest.
	He is a gifted preacher, but his greatest gift is perhaps that 
of evangelistic zeal.  His active participation in the work of the 
ministry has been brought to a close by his retirement.  While at the 
First Church in Owensboro he experienced a stormy ministry.  The 
liquor interests were intrenched [sic] in the churches, the city, and 
the county.  He won a signal victory and resigned but the membership 
of the Church voted unanimously, asking him not to leave them, but he 
felt that his ministry was needed in another field.  He was a 
valuable asset to the life of the Association during his brief stay 
here.  He returned to the First Church in 1935 during the Centennial 
Celebration.

Jenkens Jones Holman Sales
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Biltmore-Buncombe-NC Hopkinsville-Christian-KY GA Owensboro-Daviess-KY
TX

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