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Counties of PORTER and Lake Indiana.
Historical and Biographical
Weston A. Goodspeed, Historical Editor
Charles Blanchard, Biographical Editor
F. A. Battey & Co., Pub., Chicago - 1882

   374-375

        L. ATKINS, M. D., Kout's Station, Ind., was born at Westfield,
     Hampden Co., Mass., August 26, 1819.  He was a son of ELISHA ATKINS,
     who was born in Connecticut October 8, 1792.  His grandfather's name
     was LUTHER ATKINS, and he was also a native of Connecticut, and was of
     English descent.  In an early day, he moved to Hampden County, Mass.,
     where he remained until his death.  He served all through the Revo-
     lutionary war, and died in his eighty-fourth year.  He was blessed
     with a family of six children, two of whom were sons, namely PERRY
     and ELISHA, the father of the subject of our sketch.  Elisha ATKINS'
     occupation was that of a carpenter and joiner, which trade he pursued
     the principal part of his life.  He married, at Westfield, Mass., in
     the year 1816, a Miss POLLY NOBLE, who was born in Massachusetts, in
     the year 1796, and in the year 1832 moved to Ashtabula County, Ohio,
     and in 1845 moved to Porter County, Ind., where he now lives, at the
     advanced age of ninety years.  His wife died in 1864. They had a
     family of nine children, of whom our subject was next to the eldest.
     He received his education in Ashtabula County, Ohio, and in 1844 came
     to Porter County, Ind., and the following winter began the study of
     medicine, being his own preceptor.  He studied three years, and then
     began practice.  February 27, 1845, he married CATHARINE VANDALSEN,
     who was born in Franklin County, Ind., May 18, 1822.  In 1865 and
     1866, he attended lectures at Philadelphia, Penn., receiving a dip-
     loma.  In the fall of 1880, he moved to Kout's Station, and opened up
     a drug store, and also resumed his practice.  He has had born to him
     three children - ALZINA (deceased), ADELAIDE and ELZINA (deceased).

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