Edgar Maitland Atkin, B.A. 1899.
Born August 10, 1876, in Detroit, Mich.
Died April 6, 1928, in Washington, D C
Father, Richard Atkin, a graduate of Queens College, Belfast, Ireland, in 1864; a lawyer.
Mother, Elizabeth Ellen (Haugh) Atkin; daughter of James and Jane (Watts) Haugh; ancestors settled m Ohio
St George's School, Baltimore, Worcester (Mass.) Academy, and Berkeley School, New York City. Member Freshman Baseball Team; substitute on University Baseball Team; coached Worcester Academy football team four years; member Phi Sigma Kappa. Athletic director at Smith Academy, St. Louis, Mo., 1899- 1900; studied in Yale School of Law 1900-02 (special student the last year; member of his class football and baseball teams and of the Law School eleven, head coach of the Freshman Baseball Team 1900-01, and member Kent Club and Pi Delta Alpha); in law office of his stepfather, Major Edward Payson Brown (B.A. Brown 1866, LL B Harvard 1867), in New York City 1902-03; admitted to New York Bar 1903 and afterwards specialized in workmen's compensation and employers' liability law and insurance; taught at St. Paul's School, Garden City, N.Y., and coached baseball and football teams 1906; chief of claim department of New York Edison Company 1907-1913; manager of service bureau of Yale & Towne Manufacturing Company at its Stamford (Conn ) plant 1913-15; admitted to Connecticut Bar 1913 and in 1917 was lawyer for an insurance company in New York City; served as an attorney in Bureau of Investigation of Alien Property Custodian in New York office March-November, 1918, employed by War Department in connection with the cancellation of contracts 1918-1921, in office of Alien Property Custodian, Washington, and connected with Department of Justice 1921-25; with claims department of Virginia Electric & Power Company, Richmond, in 1927; actively engaged in presidential campaigns of 1912, 1916, 1920, and 1924, serving on speakers' bureaus of the Republican National and State committees; since 1913 had •made his home in Stamford, Conn., where he was member of St. John's Episcopal Church; author of Jingle Book, a volume of college verse.
Married June 15, 1904, in Worcester, Mass., Edith Almy, daughter of William Sumner and Katharine (Ellery) Barton
children.
Death due to accidental gas poisoning.
Buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, New York.
His wife survives him.
http://mssa.library.yale.edu/obituary_record/1925_1952/1927-28.pdf
Born August 10, 1876, in Detroit, Mich.
Died April 6, 1928, in Washington, D C
Father, Richard Atkin, a graduate of Queens College, Belfast, Ireland, in 1864; a lawyer.
Mother, Elizabeth Ellen (Haugh) Atkin; daughter of James and Jane (Watts) Haugh; ancestors settled m Ohio
St George's School, Baltimore, Worcester (Mass.) Academy, and Berkeley School, New York City. Member Freshman Baseball Team; substitute on University Baseball Team; coached Worcester Academy football team four years; member Phi Sigma Kappa. Athletic director at Smith Academy, St. Louis, Mo., 1899- 1900; studied in Yale School of Law 1900-02 (special student the last year; member of his class football and baseball teams and of the Law School eleven, head coach of the Freshman Baseball Team 1900-01, and member Kent Club and Pi Delta Alpha); in law office of his stepfather, Major Edward Payson Brown (B.A. Brown 1866, LL B Harvard 1867), in New York City 1902-03; admitted to New York Bar 1903 and afterwards specialized in workmen's compensation and employers' liability law and insurance; taught at St. Paul's School, Garden City, N.Y., and coached baseball and football teams 1906; chief of claim department of New York Edison Company 1907-1913; manager of service bureau of Yale & Towne Manufacturing Company at its Stamford (Conn ) plant 1913-15; admitted to Connecticut Bar 1913 and in 1917 was lawyer for an insurance company in New York City; served as an attorney in Bureau of Investigation of Alien Property Custodian in New York office March-November, 1918, employed by War Department in connection with the cancellation of contracts 1918-1921, in office of Alien Property Custodian, Washington, and connected with Department of Justice 1921-25; with claims department of Virginia Electric & Power Company, Richmond, in 1927; actively engaged in presidential campaigns of 1912, 1916, 1920, and 1924, serving on speakers' bureaus of the Republican National and State committees; since 1913 had •made his home in Stamford, Conn., where he was member of St. John's Episcopal Church; author of Jingle Book, a volume of college verse.
Married June 15, 1904, in Worcester, Mass., Edith Almy, daughter of William Sumner and Katharine (Ellery) Barton
children.
Death due to accidental gas poisoning.
Buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, New York.
His wife survives him.
http://mssa.library.yale.edu/obituary_record/1925_1952/1927-28.pdf
Edgar Maitland Atkin, B.A. 1899.
Born August 10, 1876, in Detroit, Mich.
Died April 6, 1928, in Washington, D C
Father, Richard Atkin, a graduate of Queens College, Belfast, Ireland, in 1864; a lawyer.
Mother, Elizabeth Ellen (Haugh) Atkin; daughter of James and Jane (Watts) Haugh; ancestors settled m Ohio
St George's School, Baltimore, Worcester (Mass.) Academy, and Berkeley School, New York City. Member Freshman Baseball Team; substitute on University Baseball Team; coached Worcester Academy football team four years; member Phi Sigma Kappa. Athletic director at Smith Academy, St. Louis, Mo., 1899- 1900; studied in Yale School of Law 1900-02 (special student the last year; member of his class football and baseball teams and of the Law School eleven, head coach of the Freshman Baseball Team 1900-01, and member Kent Club and Pi Delta Alpha); in law office of his stepfather, Major Edward Payson Brown (B.A. Brown 1866, LL B Harvard 1867), in New York City 1902-03; admitted to New York Bar 1903 and afterwards specialized in workmen's compensation and employers' liability law and insurance; taught at St. Paul's School, Garden City, N.Y., and coached baseball and football teams 1906; chief of claim department of New York Edison Company 1907-1913; manager of service bureau of Yale & Towne Manufacturing Company at its Stamford (Conn ) plant 1913-15; admitted to Connecticut Bar 1913 and in 1917 was lawyer for an insurance company in New York City; served as an attorney in Bureau of Investigation of Alien Property Custodian in New York office March-November, 1918, employed by War Department in connection with the cancellation of contracts 1918-1921, in office of Alien Property Custodian, Washington, and connected with Department of Justice 1921-25; with claims department of Virginia Electric & Power Company, Richmond, in 1927; actively engaged in presidential campaigns of 1912, 1916, 1920, and 1924, serving on speakers' bureaus of the Republican National and State committees; since 1913 had •made his home in Stamford, Conn., where he was member of St. John's Episcopal Church; author of Jingle Book, a volume of college verse.
Married June 15, 1904, in Worcester, Mass., Edith Almy, daughter of William Sumner and Katharine (Ellery) Barton
children.
Death due to accidental gas poisoning.
Buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, New York.
His wife survives him.
http://mssa.library.yale.edu/obituary_record/1925_1952/1927-28.pdf
Born August 10, 1876, in Detroit, Mich.
Died April 6, 1928, in Washington, D C
Father, Richard Atkin, a graduate of Queens College, Belfast, Ireland, in 1864; a lawyer.
Mother, Elizabeth Ellen (Haugh) Atkin; daughter of James and Jane (Watts) Haugh; ancestors settled m Ohio
St George's School, Baltimore, Worcester (Mass.) Academy, and Berkeley School, New York City. Member Freshman Baseball Team; substitute on University Baseball Team; coached Worcester Academy football team four years; member Phi Sigma Kappa. Athletic director at Smith Academy, St. Louis, Mo., 1899- 1900; studied in Yale School of Law 1900-02 (special student the last year; member of his class football and baseball teams and of the Law School eleven, head coach of the Freshman Baseball Team 1900-01, and member Kent Club and Pi Delta Alpha); in law office of his stepfather, Major Edward Payson Brown (B.A. Brown 1866, LL B Harvard 1867), in New York City 1902-03; admitted to New York Bar 1903 and afterwards specialized in workmen's compensation and employers' liability law and insurance; taught at St. Paul's School, Garden City, N.Y., and coached baseball and football teams 1906; chief of claim department of New York Edison Company 1907-1913; manager of service bureau of Yale & Towne Manufacturing Company at its Stamford (Conn ) plant 1913-15; admitted to Connecticut Bar 1913 and in 1917 was lawyer for an insurance company in New York City; served as an attorney in Bureau of Investigation of Alien Property Custodian in New York office March-November, 1918, employed by War Department in connection with the cancellation of contracts 1918-1921, in office of Alien Property Custodian, Washington, and connected with Department of Justice 1921-25; with claims department of Virginia Electric & Power Company, Richmond, in 1927; actively engaged in presidential campaigns of 1912, 1916, 1920, and 1924, serving on speakers' bureaus of the Republican National and State committees; since 1913 had •made his home in Stamford, Conn., where he was member of St. John's Episcopal Church; author of Jingle Book, a volume of college verse.
Married June 15, 1904, in Worcester, Mass., Edith Almy, daughter of William Sumner and Katharine (Ellery) Barton
children.
Death due to accidental gas poisoning.
Buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, New York.
His wife survives him.
http://mssa.library.yale.edu/obituary_record/1925_1952/1927-28.pdf
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