Suggested edit: STEPHEN E. ADKINS, hardware merchant and plumber, doing a very prosperous business at Mingo Junction, Ohio, was born at Point Pleasant, W. Va., April 7, 1863, and is a son of Spencer and Caroline (Glover) Adkins.
Stephen E. Adkins was reared at Point Pleasant and during boyhood attended school four months each year. He was ambitious to learn a good trade and was only thirteen when he started to work in a tinner's establishment. As soon as he completed the usual apprenticeship, he opened a shop of his own at Point Pleasant and then learned the plumbing trade. Thus equipped with two excellent trades, Mr. Adkins came as a very desirable citizen to Mingo Junction, moving his stock to this place in September 1901, and opening a store in the McLister Building, on Commercial Street. In October 1909, he came to his present excellent location on Commercial Street, opposite the public school building, and added a full stock of hardware and paints, and builders' supplies. He owns seven pieces of good property at Mingo Junction in addition to his three-story brick block which he built on Commercial Street.
Mr. Adkins was married Oct. 29, 1884, to Miss Maggie E. Hysell, a daughter of Curt Hysell, of Point Pleasant, W. Va., and they have two children: Oscar E., who managed the plumbing end of the business, having learned the trade with his father, before he established his own plumbing shop on Fourth Street, Steubenville; and Oca, who is the wife of Ralph Porter, a leading grocer of Mingo Junction. Mr. and Mrs. Porter have one daughter, Ella Deborah. Mr. Adkins and his wife reside in the Adkins Block. In politics, he is a Democrat and has taken quite an active part in public matters. In 1909 his party nominated him for county commissioner and he failed of election by but 188 votes, having run far ahead of his ticket and carried Steubenville by sixteen votes. Mr. Adkins is a member of the Knights of Pythias and the Modern Woodmen.
Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co., Ohio by Joseph B. Doyle - Publ Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago - 1910 - Page 1036
Contributor: Kerry Szymanski (49782268)
Stephen E. Adkins was reared at Point Pleasant and during boyhood attended school four months each year. He was ambitious to learn a good trade and was only thirteen when he started to work in a tinner's establishment. As soon as he completed the usual apprenticeship, he opened a shop of his own at Point Pleasant and then learned the plumbing trade. Thus equipped with two excellent trades, Mr. Adkins came as a very desirable citizen to Mingo Junction, moving his stock to this place in September 1901, and opening a store in the McLister Building, on Commercial Street. In October 1909, he came to his present excellent location on Commercial Street, opposite the public school building, and added a full stock of hardware and paints, and builders' supplies. He owns seven pieces of good property at Mingo Junction in addition to his three-story brick block which he built on Commercial Street.
Mr. Adkins was married Oct. 29, 1884, to Miss Maggie E. Hysell, a daughter of Curt Hysell, of Point Pleasant, W. Va., and they have two children: Oscar E., who managed the plumbing end of the business, having learned the trade with his father, before he established his own plumbing shop on Fourth Street, Steubenville; and Oca, who is the wife of Ralph Porter, a leading grocer of Mingo Junction. Mr. and Mrs. Porter have one daughter, Ella Deborah. Mr. Adkins and his wife reside in the Adkins Block. In politics, he is a Democrat and has taken quite an active part in public matters. In 1909 his party nominated him for county commissioner and he failed of election by but 188 votes, having run far ahead of his ticket and carried Steubenville by sixteen votes. Mr. Adkins is a member of the Knights of Pythias and the Modern Woodmen.
Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co., Ohio by Joseph B. Doyle - Publ Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago - 1910 - Page 1036
Contributor: Kerry Szymanski (49782268)
Suggested edit: STEPHEN E. ADKINS, hardware merchant and plumber, doing a very prosperous business at Mingo Junction, Ohio, was born at Point Pleasant, W. Va., April 7, 1863, and is a son of Spencer and Caroline (Glover) Adkins.
Stephen E. Adkins was reared at Point Pleasant and during boyhood attended school four months each year. He was ambitious to learn a good trade and was only thirteen when he started to work in a tinner's establishment. As soon as he completed the usual apprenticeship, he opened a shop of his own at Point Pleasant and then learned the plumbing trade. Thus equipped with two excellent trades, Mr. Adkins came as a very desirable citizen to Mingo Junction, moving his stock to this place in September 1901, and opening a store in the McLister Building, on Commercial Street. In October 1909, he came to his present excellent location on Commercial Street, opposite the public school building, and added a full stock of hardware and paints, and builders' supplies. He owns seven pieces of good property at Mingo Junction in addition to his three-story brick block which he built on Commercial Street.
Mr. Adkins was married Oct. 29, 1884, to Miss Maggie E. Hysell, a daughter of Curt Hysell, of Point Pleasant, W. Va., and they have two children: Oscar E., who managed the plumbing end of the business, having learned the trade with his father, before he established his own plumbing shop on Fourth Street, Steubenville; and Oca, who is the wife of Ralph Porter, a leading grocer of Mingo Junction. Mr. and Mrs. Porter have one daughter, Ella Deborah. Mr. Adkins and his wife reside in the Adkins Block. In politics, he is a Democrat and has taken quite an active part in public matters. In 1909 his party nominated him for county commissioner and he failed of election by but 188 votes, having run far ahead of his ticket and carried Steubenville by sixteen votes. Mr. Adkins is a member of the Knights of Pythias and the Modern Woodmen.
Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co., Ohio by Joseph B. Doyle - Publ Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago - 1910 - Page 1036
Contributor: Kerry Szymanski (49782268)
Stephen E. Adkins was reared at Point Pleasant and during boyhood attended school four months each year. He was ambitious to learn a good trade and was only thirteen when he started to work in a tinner's establishment. As soon as he completed the usual apprenticeship, he opened a shop of his own at Point Pleasant and then learned the plumbing trade. Thus equipped with two excellent trades, Mr. Adkins came as a very desirable citizen to Mingo Junction, moving his stock to this place in September 1901, and opening a store in the McLister Building, on Commercial Street. In October 1909, he came to his present excellent location on Commercial Street, opposite the public school building, and added a full stock of hardware and paints, and builders' supplies. He owns seven pieces of good property at Mingo Junction in addition to his three-story brick block which he built on Commercial Street.
Mr. Adkins was married Oct. 29, 1884, to Miss Maggie E. Hysell, a daughter of Curt Hysell, of Point Pleasant, W. Va., and they have two children: Oscar E., who managed the plumbing end of the business, having learned the trade with his father, before he established his own plumbing shop on Fourth Street, Steubenville; and Oca, who is the wife of Ralph Porter, a leading grocer of Mingo Junction. Mr. and Mrs. Porter have one daughter, Ella Deborah. Mr. Adkins and his wife reside in the Adkins Block. In politics, he is a Democrat and has taken quite an active part in public matters. In 1909 his party nominated him for county commissioner and he failed of election by but 188 votes, having run far ahead of his ticket and carried Steubenville by sixteen votes. Mr. Adkins is a member of the Knights of Pythias and the Modern Woodmen.
Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co., Ohio by Joseph B. Doyle - Publ Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago - 1910 - Page 1036
Contributor: Kerry Szymanski (49782268)
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