{"id":1420,"date":"2011-09-16T14:22:34","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T21:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1420"},"modified":"2011-09-16T14:22:34","modified_gmt":"2011-09-16T21:22:34","slug":"jenkins-florence-smith-1901","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1420","title":{"rendered":"JENKINS, FLORENCE SMITH, 1904-1998"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Businesswoman. Born&#8211; May 21, 1904, Selma. Parents&#8211; R.A.P. and Ernestine (Blue) Smith. Married&#8211; George Lewis Jenkins, II, November 8, 1921. Children&#8211; Two. Assisted her husband for twenty years in running a game preserve on the old James plantation at Letohatchee, Ala., and wrote a dozen stories during this time which were published in Field and Stream and later collected into a book. After her husband&#8217;s death, became a field underwriter for New York Life Insurance Co. Member; board of directors, Montgomery Association of Life Underwriters; secretary, Montgomery Estate Planning Council; member, Central Alabama Chapter, American Society of Chartered Life Underwriters. Died March 31, 1998.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Files at Birmingham Public Library.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dog Stories. New York; Vantage, 1967.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Businesswoman. Born&#8211; May 21, 1904, Selma. Parents&#8211; R.A.P. and Ernestine (Blue) Smith. Married&#8211; George Lewis Jenkins, II, November 8, 1921. Children&#8211; Two. Assisted her husband for twenty years in running a game preserve on the old James plantation at Letohatchee, Ala., and wrote a dozen stories during this time which were published in Field [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-j-l"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}