R. S. Elkins
R. S. Elkins, P. O. Ravenna, a native of Vermont, was born in Vermont, January 30, 1818. He learned the printers' trade and came to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1837, when twenty years of age. Here he worked two years in the Herald office. In 1839 he came to Ravenna and engaged in the publication of the Ohio Star until 1844, when he went to Akron, same State, where he engaged in the publication of the Summit County Beacon. In 1880 he returned to this county and located where he now resides on the old Dr. De Wolf homestead. Mr. Elkins married Miss Adeline L. De Wolf, February 9, 1842. She was born in Ravenna, August 8, 1823. They have one daughter—Mrs. Adelaide E., wife of Rev. W. K. Ingersoll, a Presbyterian minister in Milford, Mich.
From History of Portage County, Ohio, Warner, Beers & Co., Chicago, 1885