Mason F. Atkins, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by: Gaytha Carver Thompson
Source: Bigraphical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana, 1890



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MASON F. ATKINS

Mason F. Atkins is a man whom nature seems to have intended for a planter, for
he has met with more than an average degree of success in pursuing that
calling, and is the owner of a good and well conducted plantation of 550
acres, on which he has resided since 1885, his residence being on Cane River,
about five miles below Natchitoches.  He gives considerable attention to stock
raising and trading, and makes a specialty of growing grass for hay, selling
in 1889 over 2,000 bales.

He was born in the Green Mountain State, December 7, 1845, to John and Abigail
Atkins, and when about thirteen years of age he left the shelter of his
parents' roof and went west as far as Michigan, but after remaining there
until 1867 he removed to St. Charles, Mo., and from that time until about 1880
he was engaged in steam boating on the Mississippi, Missouri and Ohio Rivers,
and was considered one of the best steamboat men of his day.  He came to the
parish of Natchitoches in 1881, and settled near Campti, but four years later
, came to his present farm.  He was married in 1872, his wife being Miss Alice
Boal, who was born in Missouri, and an interesting family of three children
has been born to them: Medora, Lizzie and Maggie May.