J. S. Atkins
J.S. Atkins, who has been engaged in the loan and investment business in Cincinnati for the past six or seven years, was born in the vicinity of Memphis, Tennessee, in 1879, being a son of Asa and Mary (Walker) Atkins.
Mr. Atkins was reared in the town of his nativity, where he acquired his preliminary education. After the completion of his high-school course he entered Cumberland University, from which institution he was graduated in the early ‘90s with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. In order to qualify himself for his present vocation he entered an office in Nashville, until such time as he felt he had the essential practical understanding of the business needed to enable him to intelligently and profitably conduct an establishment of his own.
Mr. Atkins married Miss. Charlotte Miller, a daughter of H.K. Miller of Georgetown in the vicinity of Denver, Colorado. Two children have been born unto Mr. and Mrs. Atkins, Elizabeth and James.
The family attends the Episcopal Church of Avondale, of which Mrs. Atkins is a member. During his student days at Cumberland Mr. Atkins joined the Kappa Sigma fraternity with which he has ever since kept in close touch. Both he and his wife are very popular in the social circles of Avondale, where they have a very pleasant home.
From Cincinnati, The Queen City, Volume III by Rev. Charles Frederic Goss, S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1912