Biography of Rucker Jenkins - Mercer Co. WV


The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume II,
pg. 530


RUCKER JENKINS, a representative citizen and progressive
business man residing in the City of Bluefield, Mercer
County, is Eastern manager of the Great Eastern Coal Com-
pany, selling agents for various coal mines in Virginia,
West Virginia and Kentucky.

Mr. Jenkins was born at Graham, Virginia, March 29,
1887, and is a son of O. C. and Lucy D. Jenkins, specific
mention of the father being made on other pages of this
work. In the year following the birth of Rucker Jenkins
his parents came to Bluefield, in 1888, and here he was
reared to adult age, his early educational advantages being
those of the public schools. Thereafter he completed a
three years' course in mechanical engineering at the Vir-
ginia Polytechnical Institute. For twelve years thereafter
Mr. Jenkins was in the service of the Norfolk & Western
Railroad Company, first as secretary to the assistant super-
intendent, and thereafter as secretary to the general super-
intendent. After leaving the employ of the railroad com-
pany Mr. Jenkins was in turn connected with the traffic
department of the United States Coal & Coke Company,
with the sales department of the Central Pocahontas Coal
Company and the Eastern Coal & Export Company. He
then became resident manager of the Inter-State Coal &
Dock Company, and during the final year of his connection
with this concern he had charge of purchasing and shipping
large tonnage of coal from the West Virginia fields to tide-
water, for exportation to foreign countries.

In the World war period Mr. Jenkins gave loyal and
effective service as a member of the United States Fuel
Administration, in which connection he directed the ac-
tivities of various public speakers who were furthering the
Government's policy of fuel production and conservation.
Mr. Jenkins brings to bear wide experience and resourceful
policies in the ordering of the affairs of the important com-
pany with which he is now connected as noted in the open-
ing paragraph of this review. He is a loyal member of the
Bluefield Chamber of Commerce, is affiliated with the
Country Club and Old Colony Club, and he and his wife
hold membership in the Presbyterian Church.

November 26, 1910, recorded the marriage of Mr. Jenkins
and Miss Martha Bosworth Becker, daughter of William S.
Becker, formerly general superintendent of the Norfolk &
Western Railroad. Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins have one son,
William Becker Jenkins.


Submitted by Valerie Crook <vfcrook@earthlink.net> 

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