Carter Ashton Jenkens
was born in Oxford, North Carolina, on April 9, 1882, and received his early education in New Jersey. He graduated from Richmond College in June, 1902, and then taught for two years at Chase City, Virginia, Military Academy and Richmond Preparatory. He received a baccalaureate degree in the ministry at Crozer Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania, and served for more than 20 years as a pastor in churches in Hampton, Norfolk, and Richmond, finally to become an evangelist and conduct revivals throughout the United States. His gift for inspiring oratory was so outstanding that the famed evangelist "Billy Sunday" is reported on one occasion to have exclaimed, "If only the Almighty had blessed me with the voice of Carter Jenkens!" His twilight years were spent in Louisville, Kentucky, where he died on July 23, 1952. |
