US Congressman, Entrepreneur. He was a United States Representative from the State of Ohio. He was born on e of five children as Beriah B. Wilkins in Richwood, Ohio, to Alfred F. Wilkins (1817-1875), and his wife Harriet JAne Stewart Wilkins (1825-1909), on July 10, 1846. He was educated locally and attended the common public schools in Marysville, Ohio. During the American Civil War, he served his country after enlisting with the rank of Private in the Union Army, Company H, One Hundred and Thirty-Sixth Regiment, Ohio Voluntary Infantry, om May 2, 1864. He was honorably discharged from the military on August 31, 1864. Following his military service, he pursued banking in Uhrichsville, Ohio, and then entered politics. He served as a Member of the Ohio State Senate from 1880 to 1881, and then served as a Member of the Democratic State Central Committee in 1882. He then decided to run for a seat in the United States Congress and was elected to succeed the outgoing United States Representative Joseph Danner Taylor (1830-1899), in 1883. A Member of the Democratic Party, he then served Ohio's 16th District (Forty-Eighth Congress), in the United States House Representatives from 1883 to 1885. After his term in the United States Congress had expired he was succeeded in office by the incoming United States Representative George Washington Geddes (1824-1892), in 1885. He was then elected to succeed the outgoing United States Representative Adoniram Judson Walker (1834-1910), in 1885. A Member of the Democratic Party, he then served Ohio's 15th District (Forty-Nonth Congress), in the United States House of Representatives from 1885 to 1887. After his term in the United States Congress had expired he was succeeded in office by the incoming United States Representative Charles Henry Grosvenor (1833-1917), in 1887. A Member of the Democratic Party, he then served Ohio's 15th District (Fiftieth Congress), in the United States House of Representatives from 1887 to 1889. AFter his term in the United States Congress had expired he was succeeded in office by the incoming United States Representative James W. Owens (1837-1900), on March 4, 1889. While serving in the United States Congress he served as Chairman of the Committe on Banking and Currency representing the Fiftieth Congress. After leaving the United States Congress, he lived in Washington, D.C., where he became a majority owner and publisher of The Washington Post Newspaper in 1889, and also acquired the entire stock ownership of The Washington Post Newspaper by 1894, and serving as it's editor until his death. He passed away from heart failure in Washington, D.C., on June 7, 1905, at the age of 58. His funeral service was conducted at his home by the Reverend Teunis S. Hamlin, Pastor of the Church of the Covenant in Washington, D.C., with several important dignitaries in attendance. Following the funeral service at his home, he was buried in Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington, D.C. On his death, he was remembered with these words, "In the death of Beriah Wilkins the city of Washington has lost one of its best and most enterprising citizens, and the newspapermen at the capital a warm and good friend, many of them being indebted to him for courtesies and kind deeds. Mr. Wilkins with the brains and capital linked with the inspiring genius of Frank Hatton, built uo in Washington an enterprising and successful newspaper which now ranks with the foremost journals of the country, and will stand as a monument to the memory of the deceased, one of whom lived to see success assured in the venture and the other its complete triumph from a journalistic and business standpoint. The representative newspaper men here assembled deeply deplore the passing of Beriah Wilkins and extend to his griefstricken family their sincere sympathies." He was married to Emily J. "Emma" Robinson Wilkins (1847-1911), with whom he had two children John Franklin Wilkins (1872-1941), and Robert Crew Wilkins (1875-1921).