ATKINSON, JAMES

ATKINSON, FORD

Posted By: Marilyn Norris Holmes
Date: 4/13/2013 at 17:09:50

The 1880 History of Poweshiek County Iowa

Warren Township

Page 796

ATKINSON, JAMES--Farmer and stock-raiser, section 36, P.O. Victor. Was born August 28, 1828, in Ohio county, West Virginia, and when four years old left there in company with his parents, going to Guernsey county, Ohio, where, after completing his education, he engaged in tilling the soil until the fall of 1856. Then came to Iowa and engaged in threshing in this county and in freighting from Iowa City, till August 1, 1859, at which time, in Iowa county, he married Miss Nancy Ford, who was born in 1835, in Richland county, Ohio. Then he engaged in farming in this county till 1862, when he bought and settled where he now lives and owns 417 acres of well improved land, including timber, having the same well stocked. Mr. Atkinson is one of the early settlers, there being but few in Warren township when he came here. He has been township trustee three terms, assessor one term, to which position he has just been again elected on the Democratic ticket, November 2, 1880. Mr. and Mrs. Atkinson have six children: Lizzie (born May 25, 1861), George (born March 17, 1862), Alice (born April 7, 1864), James (born May 25, 1866), Robert (born August 9, 1869; died September 20, 1879) and Nannie (born August 28, 1876).