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About Stephen Rice Jenkins
- Stephen Rice Jenkins (November 12, 1858 – September 15, 1929) was a physician and political figure in Prince Edward Island, Canada.
- He represented 5th Queens in the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island from 1912 to 1919 as a Conservative member. He was born in Charlottetown, the son of John Theophilus Jenkins and Jessica Esther Rice, and was educated there and at King's College in Windsor, Nova Scotia.
- Jenkins went on to study medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and practiced at the Blockley hospital in Philadelphia.
- He returned to the island in 1885, practicing at Tignish and then Cardigan before moving to Charlottetown in 1888.
- In 1886, he married Ellen Josephine Sweeney.
- Raised as an Anglican, Jenkins became a Roman Catholic before his marriage.
- He was named a surgeon for the militia, eventually becoming an honorary lieutenant-colonel for his unit.
- He ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the provincial assembly in 1900 before being elected in 1912.
- He served as a minister without portfolio in the provincial cabinet. Jenkins was a member of the Canadian Army Medical Corps during World War I.
- He later helped establish a veteran's hospital at Charlottetown.
- Jenkins was senior surgeon at Prince Edward Island Hospital and chief of staff at Charlottetown Hospital.
- He served as president for the Maritime Medical Association and was president for the Canadian Medical Association in 1928 and 1929.
- He helped establish the Prince Edward Island Red Cross Society and served as its secretary.
- He was also president of the Anti-Tuberculosis Society and chair of the provincial branch of the American Society for the Control of Cancer.
- Jenkins also served on the Charlottetown school board.
- He died of pneumonia in Charlottetown in 1929. His brother Louis also served in the provincial assembly.
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