Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1911 — I. N. ATKINSON KILLS SELF [ARTICLE]

I. N. ATKINSON KILLS SELF

Wealthy Benton County Farmer Despondent Because of Hl Health. Isaac Newton Atkinson, one of Benton county’s most promi nent and wealthy citizens shot and killed himself last Thursday afternoon by firing a bullet into his breast, death following in a few moments. The weapon used was a small single shot 22-caliber pistol, and the act was committed in the front room of his home in Pine township, where he had lived for thirty years. He kept the pistol in his safe, and many of his friends believe that the shoofng was accidental. He had been in rather poor health for some time, having been in the hospital all last summer. The Fowler Republican of Friday, among other things, said of him: “I. N. Atkinson was the son of Cephas .and Rachel Atkinson and was bornin Oak Grove township in September 1855. In February 1881 he was united in marriage to Eliza Jane Smalley of Warren cotinty. Almost directly afterward, he moved to Pine township and waited for civilization to come to him, which it did. By this door runs a rural route. Three telephone lines run in tp his home. “By the failure of Baldwin & Co., his father being the company and he was Associated with his father, he assigned all the property he possessed. The failure

cost him $27,000 all of which was paid without a murmur. He began the struggle over again and at the time of his death owned 1725 acres of Benton county [teal estate with an incumberance of $4,000 and had fifty thousand dollars of personal property. “Men worked for him year in and year out. He had no difficulty with his hands. When his son's became of age; he gave them a signed check and told tiem to go buy a load of cattle, bring them home, feed them and sell, them, the proceeds would be theirs. “The widow, seven children, Roy. Earl, Ray, Claude, Lloyd, Opal and Bessie and the entire ! country mourn. > J “The burial services will be I held Sunday afternoon at . 2 o’clock at Mt. Gilboa church. The funeral discourse will be delivered by his friend and pastor of a third of a century, Dr. J. M. Rodman."