Indiana and Indianans - a history of aboriginal and territorial Indiana and the century of statehood (1919) (14763781842)

Identifier: indianaindianans04dunn (find matches)
Title: Indiana and Indianans : a history of aboriginal and territorial Indiana and the century of statehood
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Dunn, Jacob Piatt, 1855-1924 Kemper, General William Harrison, 1839-
Subjects: Medicine
Publisher: Chicago and New York : The American historical society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center



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ed all over the world andare known for their high standard of ex-cellence and quality. As a result of theenterprise of the late Elias C. Atkins,founder of the business, the industry wasestablished at Indianapolis when it was asmall town, and for a period of fifty yearsit has been one of the chief sources of in-dustrial prosperity to the growing city. It seems appropriate that the businessitself is a development of Yankee industryand ingenuity. The founder of this branchof the Atkins family in America wasThomas Atkins, a native of England whowent to Connecticut about the middle ofthe seventeenth century. In a later gen-eration was Samuel Atkins, a sturdy andrepresentative citizen of his native stateof Connecticut, where he spent all his life.One of his twelve children was Rollin At-kins, who early in life learned the tradeof clock maker. He possessed special me-chanical ability and finally took up themanufacture of saws, and the output of hislittle shop had a more than local reputation
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SSK INDIANA AND INDIANANS 1855 and was extensively sold. However, he didnot live to develop the business to largeproportions and died in the prime of hismanhood. He served as a captain of theFourth Company, Fourth Regiment ofConnecticut Militia. Rollin Atkins mar-ried Harriet Bishop, daughter of Austinand Anna (Stalker) Bishop, the formerborn in 1764 and the latter in 1766. Aus-tin Bishop was a perfect representative ofthe old fashioned, pious New Englanddeacon. He died September 23, 1833, andhis wife on October 22, 1840. In the home of Rollin Atkins and wifeat Bristol, Connecticut, Elias Cornelius At-kins was born June 28, 1833. The closeof his honored and useful life came at In-dianapolis April 18, 1901, in his sixty-eighth year. When he was a mere boy thedeath of his father threw upon him prac-tical responsibilities in providing not onlyfor his own support but for other mem-bers of the family. At the age of elevenhe was working on a farm, but the follow-ing year began an apprentice