HISTORY OF HENDERSON COUNTY, KY.



very successful in business affairs. During his life in Germany, he
was a member of the Army Reserve Force; his brother David was
in Napoleon's Russian Campaign, was present at the burning of Mos-
cow, and was one of the number who perished in Napoleon's memor-
able retreat. For seven or eight months in 1848, Mr. Mayer was
totally blind, cataracts having formed over his eyes, but he subse-
quently recovered, and now, at his old age, enjoys a good eyesight.
He is a great reader, loves his smoke and glass of wine, and awaits
the coming of his Maker with a spirit becoming a philosopher.
     AMON RATHBONE JENKINS, physician and surgeon, and
son of Thomas Morris Jenkins and Mary Ann King, was born in the
City of Henderson on the twelfth day of September, 1860. His early
education was obtained from schools taught by Professors Rousseau,
Kirby and Posey. His paternal grandfather was born in England,
and came to this country in 1810, settling in the City of Columbus,
Ohio. His paternal grandmother was a native of Maryland. His
maternal grandfather was John Boyle King, born in 1876, on Boyle
farm, County Cork, Ireland; came to Arverica at an early age, and
was a distinguished soldier in the War of 1812. His maternal grand-
mother, Madeline Hager King, of the family of Ormdorffs, Hagers
and Boharques, early colonist, was born in Maryland.
    The subject of this sketch early conceived a taste for medicine
and began its study even before he had finished his High School
education. He entered the office of Dr. Arch Dixon, and there
prepared himself to enter upon a regular collegiate course. In 1878
he matriculated at the Louisville Medical University, and attended its
winter course. Returning home he was employed in the active study
of his profession, and many experiments were made by him upon liv-
ing animals to tell the physiological action of remedies and to prove
or disprove the accepted theories in regard to them. He returned to
college in the autumn of 1879, and could have graduated with honor
the following spring, but, being under age, was compelled to attend a
third course, graduating in 1881.. Dr. Jenkins then returned to Hen-
derson, and immediately began an active practice, turning his attention
particularly to surgery. In 1883 he went abroad, spending a year in
Berlin, Prussia, where he was enrolled as a regular student in Fred-
erick Wilhelm Koeniglicher Universitaet in Berlin, under the tutelage
of such masters as Virchen, Von Langenbeck, Van Bergman, Koch,
Schroedin and Prof. Esmarch, in Kiel. He returned to Henderson in
1884, and again practiced his profession with zeal and energy until
1885, when he again returned to Berlin, where he perfected himself