Fountain County IN Archives Biographies.....Wilkins, B. M. 1811 - 
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Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881)

   B. M. Wilkins, minister of the Gospel, Veedersburg, a pioneer minister of the
Christian church, came to Fountain county in 1830. Remaining some time, he
returned to Ross county, Ohio, his native state, and came a second time in 1832.
He is the son of Thomas and Elizabeth Wilkins, and was born in 1811, near
Chillicothe. Both his parents were natives of New Jersey, his father a pastor in
the Friends church. B. M. was married December 4, 1833, to Zipporah Thompson,
native of Fayette county, Ohio, daughter of Job and Zipporah Thompson, both of
whom were natives of Ohio. By this marriage they had twelve children, nine of
whom are living. Mr. Wilkins has been engaged in the ministry forty-five years.
He first began preaching, in 1835, in his native state, then in Indiana, then in
Michigan, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, and Kansas. He has traveled eighteen
years as home missionary, to which, he affirms, he is indebted for his
principles of church union. During his ministerial life he has traveled on foot,
on horseback, by carriage, and railroad, 86,000 miles, and delivered over 10,000
public addresses. Says he: "If I had my life to live over again I should prepare
for the ministry." He had two sons in the late war, B. S. and Thomas J., and two
sons-in-law, George W. Vincen and Wesley D. Ray. As relics highly prized, he
exhibited his sons' swords, which bore the inscription "B. S. Wilkin." In 1871
Mr. Wilkin located permanently on a small farm one mile north of Chambersburg,
where he expects to end his pilgrimage in the service of his God.

Additional Comments:
Van Buren Township

Extracted from:

HISTORY OF FOUNTAIN COUNTY,

TOGETHER WITH
HISTORIC NOTES ON THE WABASH VALLEY,

GLEANED FROM EARLY AUTHORS, OLD MAPS AND MANUSCRIPTS
PRIVATE AND OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE, AND OTHER AUTHENTIC, THOUGH, FOR THE MOST
PART, OUT-OF-THE-WAY SOURCES.

BY H. W. BECKWITH,
OF THE DANVILLE BAR; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETIES OF
WISCONSIN AND CHICAGO.

WITH MAP AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

CHICAGO: H. H. HILL AND N. IDDINGS, PUBLISHERS.
1881.

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