Eli Wilkin (1902)

WILKIN

Posted By: Kent Transier (email)
Date: 5/10/2007 at 17:29:08

Winterset Madisonian, Thursday, May 22, 1902, page 1

Major Wilkin Dead

Maj. Eli Wilkin died at his home at Purity, Licking county, Ohio, at three o’clock a. m., May 13, 1902, aged a little over sixty four years. His best years were spent in Winterset. He settled here about 1868, and began the practice of law. He soon developed a large practice, and for several years was a partner of S. G. Ruby. He was a member of the state senate from 1883 to 1887, and in earlier years had held several city offices. About 1890 he emigrated to Washington and settled in Fairhaven. He soon attracted attention and was meeting well deserved success, when his health failed and he went back to his early home in Ohio, where he had always had property interests. His death was caused by paralysis. He was much weakened by former strokes, and his once good constitution succumbed to an attack that found him much too enfeebled to resist.

Maj. Wilkin will long be remembered in Winterset, where he had a host of friends.