Atkinson, Colonel Matthew John

ATKINSON

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The Daily Nonpareil Sat, Mar 03, 1900 ·Page 5 - Colonel Matthew John Atkinson

The Daily Nonpareil

Sat., Mar 03, 1900 Page 5

Colonel Atkinson Dead

New York, March 2.---Col. Matthew John Atkinson is dead in this city. Colonel Atkinson was born in Ohio in 1827.

At Steubenville, O., he studied law with Edwin H. Stanton, Secretary of War under President Lincoln. He also took an active part in the Civil War, starting out as a captain of the Sixteenth Illinois Cavalry. At the end of the war he was mustered out as a brevet colonel.