Atkins, Charles

ATKINS

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 10/10/2006 at 14:01:06

Charles Atkins

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.4, Council Bluffs)
Charles Atkins, Railroad Pool Commissioner, Council Bluffs, was born in Maine in 1831; was educated in his native State, and, when twenty years of age, went to California, where he remained four years. In 1856, he came to Iowa, and settled in Onawa, where he engaged in merchandising. In 1873, in left Onawa, and began railroading on the Union Pacific Railroad, and, in 1875, was tendered the position of General Agent of the Chicago & North-Western Railroad. In the spring of 1880, he went to Colorado as President of the Colorado Mining, Smelting & Investment Company, which position he still holds. In Onawa, Iowa, in 1860, he married Miss Mary Sears, of that place, and they hvae one child, Carrie, aged twenty years. Mrs. Atkins' father kept the Pacific House in Council Bluffs in 1854. Mr. Atkins is at present Pool Commissioner for the Iowa lines at the Transfer Yards of Council Bluffs.