Post by Eric Standridge on Oct 27, 2011 9:31:18 GMT -6
Formerly a leading business man of Cameron, Charles G. Adkins, register of deeds of LeFlore county, was born in Johnson county, Arkansas, September 4, 1871. His father, William' Adkins, who is now a farmer near Cameron, Oklahoma, is also a native of that county and obtained his early training and education there. He served in the Confederate army under General Cabell, his regiment being first attached to the TransMississippi department and later to that east of the Mississippi river. He participated, among others, in the battle of Wilson's Creek and served throughout the war. Resuming civil life, William Adkins returned to the farm and subsequently engaged in merchandising at Clarksville, Arkansas, residing there until he came to the Choctaw country, and after spending some years at Cameron in mercantile pursuits engaged in farming at his present location near the city. The paternal grandparents were Joseph and Martha (May) Adkins, the former being a Tennessee farmer who established the family homestead in Johnson county, Arkansas. William Adkins, the father, was married in that county, to Miss Mattie A. Paine, and the issue of the union is Charles G., of this review: Frank, of Van Buren; William, also of that place; and Mrs. Annie Poole, of Poteau, Oklahoma.
While the parental home was at Clarksville, Arkansas, Charles G. Adkins reached mature years and received his education in its public schools. When a youth of sixteen he became a merchant's clerk in his native town, and made this his business until he became a student in the famous normal school at Valparaiso. Indiana. Added to his work in the normal was a business course which he pursued in the Fort Smith Business College, just before his advent to the Indian country in 1892. He became a bookkeeper at Cameron in 1892, and was identified with that town as employe or proprietor until he was chosen register of deeds. He was in the employ of W. H. McMurray and J. W. Carrel at Cameron for nine years, and then successfully engaged in business for himself. He also became interested in coal, and developed quite a valuable mining property, after organizing a company known as the Cameron Coal and Mercantile Company, which business, as well as his store, was sold out in 1907. Being thus free from the cares of private business and having a wide acquaintance over the county, Mr. Adkins became a candidate for register of deeds and received the nomination in the Democratic primary without opposition—an unusual honor and indicating a high degree of personal popularity and public confidence.
He was elected over his Republican opponent by a majority of five hundred and twenty votes, and assumed office in Poteau with the advent of statehood, succeeding to the office of the recorder of district fourteen of the Indian Territory under the Federal regime.
On December 25, 1895, Mr. Adkins was married at Van Buren, Arkansas, to Miss Maud M. Eichenberger, a daughter of Jackson and Mary E. (Carey) Eichenberger, who were the parents of five children. Mr. and Mrs. Adkins are the parents of the following children: Charles G., Jr., Carey P., William J., Amasa M. and Henry F. Mr. Adkins is a member of the Knights of Pythias, and both he and his wife are Methodists.
While the parental home was at Clarksville, Arkansas, Charles G. Adkins reached mature years and received his education in its public schools. When a youth of sixteen he became a merchant's clerk in his native town, and made this his business until he became a student in the famous normal school at Valparaiso. Indiana. Added to his work in the normal was a business course which he pursued in the Fort Smith Business College, just before his advent to the Indian country in 1892. He became a bookkeeper at Cameron in 1892, and was identified with that town as employe or proprietor until he was chosen register of deeds. He was in the employ of W. H. McMurray and J. W. Carrel at Cameron for nine years, and then successfully engaged in business for himself. He also became interested in coal, and developed quite a valuable mining property, after organizing a company known as the Cameron Coal and Mercantile Company, which business, as well as his store, was sold out in 1907. Being thus free from the cares of private business and having a wide acquaintance over the county, Mr. Adkins became a candidate for register of deeds and received the nomination in the Democratic primary without opposition—an unusual honor and indicating a high degree of personal popularity and public confidence.
He was elected over his Republican opponent by a majority of five hundred and twenty votes, and assumed office in Poteau with the advent of statehood, succeeding to the office of the recorder of district fourteen of the Indian Territory under the Federal regime.
On December 25, 1895, Mr. Adkins was married at Van Buren, Arkansas, to Miss Maud M. Eichenberger, a daughter of Jackson and Mary E. (Carey) Eichenberger, who were the parents of five children. Mr. and Mrs. Adkins are the parents of the following children: Charles G., Jr., Carey P., William J., Amasa M. and Henry F. Mr. Adkins is a member of the Knights of Pythias, and both he and his wife are Methodists.