Atkins, Eli A.
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Atkins, Eli A.
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Classification: Biography
Surnames: Atkins, Bemis, Burbaker, Sayer, Wildman
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from reprint of “Clarke County Historical and Biographical Record†by Lewis Publishing, 1886. p. 41.
ELI A. ATKINS, one of the substantial business men of Osceola, was born in Deavertown, Morgan County, Ohio, April 17, 1823, a son of Elijah and Mary (Younkin) Atkins, natives of Delaware and Virginia, respectively, the father born April 17, 1797. He followed merchandising and hotel keeping through life. The parents were among the early settlers of Ohio, in which State they made their home till death. They had a family of six children of whom their son, Eli A., and three daughters are yet living.
Eli A. began learning the marble-cutters trade at the age of eighteen years, which he followed about four years. He then engaged in the mercantile business at Cumberland, Ohio, remaining there till 1852, when he came to Iowa, locating in Henry County for one year.
Mr. Atkins came to Osceola, Clarke County, in July, 1867, and opened a marble-cutter’s shop, which he carried on about a year, when he sold out his business and engaged in the grocery business in which he was very successful, continuing in the same business about ten years, in connection with which he dealt in grain for some time. Disposing of his stock of groceries he turned his attention to dealing in horses, which he shipped to Nebraska and other Western States, for six years. He has of late years been engaged in dealing in grain, buying and shipping between Denver, Colorado, and Eastern markets, oats being the principal product handled.
Mr. Atkins has been twice married. For his first wife he married Anna Bemis in 1845, who died in 1850, leaving three children--Charles O., now engaged in the abstract business, at Lincoln, Nebraska; Emery B., a grain merchant, of Denver, Colorado, and Mary E., wife of A. Burbaker, a lumber dealer, of York, Nebraska. Mr. Atkins was again married in 1852 to Maria J. Agnew, a native of Ohio, and to this union have been born three children--Laura E., married David E. Sayer, banker of York, Nebraska; Frank K., dealer in real estate and loan agent at York, Nebraska, and Cora D. married W. J. Wildman, banker, of York, Nebraska. Mr. Atkins and his family are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, of which he is a trustee.
from reprint of “Clarke County Historical and Biographical Record†by Lewis Publishing, 1886. p. 41.
ELI A. ATKINS, one of the substantial business men of Osceola, was born in Deavertown, Morgan County, Ohio, April 17, 1823, a son of Elijah and Mary (Younkin) Atkins, natives of Delaware and Virginia, respectively, the father born April 17, 1797. He followed merchandising and hotel keeping through life. The parents were among the early settlers of Ohio, in which State they made their home till death. They had a family of six children of whom their son, Eli A., and three daughters are yet living.
Eli A. began learning the marble-cutters trade at the age of eighteen years, which he followed about four years. He then engaged in the mercantile business at Cumberland, Ohio, remaining there till 1852, when he came to Iowa, locating in Henry County for one year.
Mr. Atkins came to Osceola, Clarke County, in July, 1867, and opened a marble-cutter’s shop, which he carried on about a year, when he sold out his business and engaged in the grocery business in which he was very successful, continuing in the same business about ten years, in connection with which he dealt in grain for some time. Disposing of his stock of groceries he turned his attention to dealing in horses, which he shipped to Nebraska and other Western States, for six years. He has of late years been engaged in dealing in grain, buying and shipping between Denver, Colorado, and Eastern markets, oats being the principal product handled.
Mr. Atkins has been twice married. For his first wife he married Anna Bemis in 1845, who died in 1850, leaving three children--Charles O., now engaged in the abstract business, at Lincoln, Nebraska; Emery B., a grain merchant, of Denver, Colorado, and Mary E., wife of A. Burbaker, a lumber dealer, of York, Nebraska. Mr. Atkins was again married in 1852 to Maria J. Agnew, a native of Ohio, and to this union have been born three children--Laura E., married David E. Sayer, banker of York, Nebraska; Frank K., dealer in real estate and loan agent at York, Nebraska, and Cora D. married W. J. Wildman, banker, of York, Nebraska. Mr. Atkins and his family are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, of which he is a trustee.