Multnomah County OR Archives Biographies.....Atkins, Joseph Leicester March 20, 1863 - 
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     JOSEPH LEICESTER ATKINS, who has been engaged in the practice of law in 
Portland for many years and has gained a reputation as a sound and reliable 
attorney, was born in Akron, Ohio, on the 20th day of March, 1863, and is a 
son of James and Helen Dunbar (King) Atkins. His father was there engaged in 
the practice of law and after the close of the Civil war was United States 
collector of internal revenue at Atlanta, Georgia. He held that position many 
years, and was later made collector of customs at Savannah, Georgia. On 
quitting that position he engaged in the practice of law in Savannah and 
resided in that city until his death. The mother also is deceased.

     Joseph L. Atkins received his elementary education in the public schools 
and entered Bethany College, at Bethany, West Virginia, from which he was 
graduated, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, in 1882. Many noted men have 
graduated from that institution, among whom may be mentioned the Hon. Champ 
Clark, for many years congressman from Missouri, and Justice Lamar, laie? of 
the United States Supreme bench. On leaving Bethany, Mr. Atkins took the law 
course in the National University, at Washington, D. C., from which he 
received the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1884. The same year he was admitted 
to the bar of Georgia, and in the following year he entered upon the practice 
of his profession at Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, where he remained three years. 
From 1888 to 1910 he practiced his profession in Washington, D. C., 
specializing in patent cases, and then came to Portland, Oregon, where he has 
since resided. He bought a farm in Oregon, to the operation of which he 
devoted his attention until 1913, when he resumed the active practice of law, 
in which he has been engaged to the present time. Specializing in patent law, 
in which he is regarded as an authority, he commands an important clientele.

     In 1885, in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, Mr. Atkins was united in marriage 
to Miss Kate M. Best, who died in 1900, leaving two children, Leicester B. and 
Katherine, the latter now in the east. Leicester B. Atkins is a veteran of the 
World war, a first lieutenant, having been in the service two years, one year 
of which was spent in France and Germany. He is now president of the Portland 
Cement Brick Company. He is married and has a son, Joseph L.

     In 1925 Mr. Atkins was married to Miss Florence Beane of Portland, a 
daughter of James Beane, a pioneer settler of Roseburg, Oregon. The republican 
party receives Mr. Atkins' support, while fraternally he is a member of 
Imperial Lodge, No. 159, A. F. & A. M., of which he is a past master by 
affiliation, and of Portland Chapter, No. 3, R. A. M., of which he is an 
affiliated past high priest.

Additional Comments:
History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. II, 
Pages 926-927

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