Biographical/Historical Sketch
Hubert Oliver Jenkins, born in Terre Haute, Indiana, in 1885, was the son of Stanford. professor Oliver P. Jenkins. He received his A.B. in zoology from Stanford in 1907 and his M.S. in biology and public health from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After 1931 he taught in the geology and natural history department at Sacramento Junior College in Sacramento, CA. Jenkins completed his Ph.D. in biology at Stanford in 1940. In 1958 he published Glaciation in Big Bend National Park, Texas (Sacramento: Sacramento State College Foundation).
From the guide to the Hubert Oliver Jenkins papers, 1902-1948, (Department of Special Collections and University Archives)