. History of Steuben County, New York, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers. Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron von, 1730-1794. e/7?i^ Jesse T. Atkins was born in the town of En- field, Tompkins Co., N. Y., Jan. 29, 1820. He was one in a family of six children of William and Rozina Atkins. His father by a previous marriage had fifteen children, and hence was the father of twenty-one children. He was a native of Cherry Valley. His parents removed from Enfield and settled in the town of Greenwood among the earlier settlers;
. History of Steuben County, New York, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers. Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron von, 1730-1794. e/7?i^ Jesse T. Atkins was born in the town of En- field, Tompkins Co., N. Y., Jan. 29, 1820. He was one in a family of six children of William and Rozina Atkins. His father by a previous marriage had fifteen children, and hence was the father of twenty-one children. He was a native of Cherry Valley. His parents removed from Enfield and settled in the town of Greenwood among the earlier settlers; was a farmer during his residence here, where both he and his wife died. Jesse T. Atkins had very limited opportunities for in education, as ir the early history of the town a pecuniary value was placed upon the time of chil- dren ; he was reared on the farm and inured to the hardships common to a farmer^s life, in clearing off the forest and preparing the land for cultivation. After reaching his majority he purchased one hun- dred and ninety-five acres of land in the west part of the town of Greenwood,—on which his widow and family now reside,—a considerable part of which he cleared and made improvements upon of good farm buildings. July 19, 1854, he married Harriet, daughter of John and Roby Scott, of Greenwood. Her parents formerly resided in Genoa, Cayuga Co., N. Y., and settled in Greenwood about 1841; her father died two years prior to the settlement of the family here; her mother died February, 1876. Mrs. Atkins was born Dec. 21, 1836. Mr. Atkins spent his life as a farmer. He was a man of indomitable perseverance, resolution, and industry. He carried forward to successful com- pletion whatever he undertook. For many years prior to his decease he dealt quite largely in stock, shipping to New York. He was known as an enter- prising, thrifty business man, and possessed strict in- tegrity in all his business operations. Mr. Atkins never gave much attention to politics,
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