ASHTABULA COUNTY OHIO 
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Transcribed by Cherre Loftus Flynn.

According to 
            THE HISTORY OF ASHTABULA COUNTY, OHIO
        WITH ILLUSTRATIONS AND BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
           OF ITS PIONEERS AND MOST PROMINENT MENT
           Published in Philadelphia by Williams Brothers in 1878

 "JOSHIAH ATKINS, JR., a well-known citizen of Ashtabula County for more than
 sixty years, was born in Wolcott, New Haven County, Connecticut, October 16,
 1789.  He was a younger brother of Hon. Quintus F. Atkins, and came to Ohio
 when quite a young man.

 For several years previous to 1821 he was a confidential clerk in the mercantile
 house of Austin & Hawley, in Austinburg, one of the most important business
 houses in northern Ohio.  In 1821 he was a clerk and a deputy in the county
 auditor's office in Jefferson, and a year or two later surveyed the lands in
 northwestern Ohio, granted by Congress to the State, for the pupose of building a
 road from the west line of the Connecticut Reserve to Perrysburg, through what
 was known as the "Maumee Swamp".  

 Afterwards he pursued the occupation of surveyor and builder, varied occasionally
 by services as storekeeper and accountant.  He also held the office of county
 surveyor for several years.  At a later period, ill health and infirmities intervening,
 he gave up surveying, and for a few years served as justice of the peace and
 postmaster in Lenox.

 In 1847, assisted by Colonel Erastus N. House, he wrote, for the county historical
 society, an interesting history of the pioneer settlement of Lenox, which with many
 other valuable documents of like kind, is supposed to have been destroyed by the
 subsequent burning of the courthouse, in which they were deposited.

 He was a diligent student and ardent lover of sound literature, as well as an
 indusrious working man, and in the course of his long life had accumulated a large
 and valuable library, which he gave, by will, to Tabor College, Iowa.

 He was widely known and justly esteemed as a man of strict integrity, great
 intelligence, and pure morals.

 He died March 12, 1871, at Oberlin, Ohio, in the eighty-second year of his age.
  He had never married."