Dallas County AlArchives Biographies.....Atkins, V. B. April 25 1856 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   V. B. ATKINS, of the firm of Atkins, Dortch & Co., Selma, Ala., was born in
Hale county, Ala., April 25, 1856. His parents were John and Florence R.
(Harrison) Atkins, the former of whom was born in King and Queen county, Va. The
grandfather of V. B. Atkins was born in Virginia, while his great-grandfather
was a native of England and was the founder of the family in the United States.
It is held that the ancestry was Scotch and Irish. Mr. V. B. Atkins was reared
and educated in Virginia, and came to Alabama when quite a young man. He began
business for himself as a druggist at Greensboro. Ala., where he remained about
ten years, and where he was succeeded by his brother, who had joined him a few
years before. He then returned to his farm on which he lived until after the
war, when he removed to Selma, and lived there for some years engaged in the dry
goods business. After a short time he returned to his farm in Hale county, Ala.,
where he died in July, 1877, at the age of sixty-five years. A short time after
coming to Alabama he married Miss Florence R. Harrison, who bore him nine sons
and three daughters. She was born in Hale county, near Greensboro, and is now
living, at the age of sixty-five years. Her father was a Mr. Harrison, a native
of Alabama, his ancestors removing to Alabama from Virginia, and laterally
related to the branch from which sprang President Benjamin Harrison. V. B.
Atkins was reared in Hale county, where he lived till sixteen years old, when he
removed for Selma, where he has since remained, with an intermission of three
years, which he spent in Hale county. He was first a clerk for the dry goods
firm of Hurt, Corbin & Atkins, the latter member of the firm being his brother.
He afterward traveled for four years in Alabama for a Louisville clothing house.
In 1881 he was united in marriage with Miss Mary Martin, of Martin's Station,
Ala., and in 1883 he became a salesman for the firm, Montgomery & Bowen,
wholesale grocers of Selma. Two years later he accepted a position with Moore,
Kornegay & Co., at Selma, and became a partner September 1, 1889. Changes were
subsequently made and the firm is now known as Atkins, Dortch & Co. The business
of this firm is at the present time a wholesale grocery and cotton commission
business. Mr. Atkins is a member of I. O. O. F. and the Episcopal church. Mr.
and Mrs. Atkins are the parents of three sons.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 844-845
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

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