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George Adkins, the first of this family in New York, was born in New Hampshire about 1802. He came to Crown Point when a young man and followed the trade of carpenter and joiner. About 1836 he removed to Ticonderoga and worked at his trade there the remainder of his life. He died in 1867.
He was a Whig in politics until his party went to pieces, afterwards a Republican. He held the office of justice of the peace.
He married Susan Lane, of New Hampshire.
Children:
Orris, mentioned below.
Owen H.
Jane.
Orlando W.
Juliette, died in childhood.

(II) Orris, son of George Adkins, was born at Crown Point, Nov. 11, 1822, and attended the public schools of his native town. He removed with his parents to Ticonderoga when he was fourteen years old, and went to work with his father as a carpenter. In later years he owned and operated a sawmill for thirty-five years. He received his son in partenership with him in business. He had retired from active pursuits and lived with his son, George H. Adkins, in Ticonderoga, until April 17, 1910, when he died, aged eighty-seven years.
In politics he was a Republican; in religion a Methodist.
He married, June 28, 1847, Amanda P., born at Ticonderoga, May 25, 1824, died Aug. 28, 1890, daughter of George and Phebe (Miller) Grant, granddaughter of Anna Miller, who was kidnapped by the Indians when she was five years old.
Children:
1. George H., mentioned below.
2. Alice, born March 17, 1855; died July 17, 1857.
3. Altus Byron, Aug. 11, 1858; merchant of Essex county; married Millie Wolcott, daughter, Venice.
4. Arthur Grant, Sept. 17, 1862, merchant of Ticonderoga; married (first) Ida M. Armstrong; (second) Mrs. Anna McLaughlin.

(III) George Harvey, son of Orris Adkins, was born at Ticonderoga, May 29, 1848. He was educated in the public schools. He began to work in the lead and ore mines of the town, and later was the owner of a sawmill and general store at Street road, about three miles from Ticonderoga, and was postmaster there for twenty years. In 1891 he established a grocery and provision business in the village of Ticonderoga in partnership with his brothers, Altus B. and Arthur G. Adkins, and Mr. Scott, under the firm name of Adkins & Scott. Mr. Scott lies at a distance from the village and is not an active partner. George H. Adkins continued to operate his sawmill and to hold the office of postmaster, and the store at Ticonderoga was managed by his younger brother, Arthur G. Adkins, until the spring of 1900, when George H. Adkins sold out his business at Street road and removed to Ticonderoga village, devoting his time to the grocery and provision store of the firm of Adkins & Scott. The firm built the large Adkins & Scott block in which the store is now (1910) located. The store itself is the finest grocery in northern New York.
Mr. Adkins built his residence at Street road and another in which he now lives at Ticonderoga village. He has also other valuable real estate in this section. He is interested in the bee industry and has an apiary of some eighty colonies of bees, making sometimes from a half to a ton of honey in a season. He belongs to the bee keepers' national organization, and recently attended a convention held at San Antonio, Texas.
In politics he is a Republican, and he has held the office of constable of the town. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and trustee and treasurer of the society.
He married, March, 1870, Mary Brooks, born at Hague, N.Y., resided at Crown Point before her marriage, daughter of Nathan and Abigail (Capron) Brooks.
Children:
1. Mattie, born May 30, 1871; married Charles Carr, farmer, Wilton, Saratoga county, N.Y.; children: Ruth, Arthur, Elizabeth, Elsie and Frances Carr.
2. Elsie L., Sept. 25, 1873; married Leon Ostrander, farmer, of Dresden; child: Burdette Ostrander.
3. Mary Ellen, May 17, 1876; married Walter Johnson, merchant at Street road, town of Ticonderoga, children: Grant and Helen L. Johnson.
4. John, March 31, 1879; died March 3, 1881.
5. Jennie, Dec. 25, 1880; married John Rowley, a farmer of Wilton, Saratoga county, N.Y.
6. Orris G., Nov. 28, 1883; was in charge of the dynamo at the paper mill in Ticonderoga for four years, now taking a course in electrical engineering in New York City; married Elizabeth Hinds of Sandy Hill, N.Y.; son, Lawrence.
7. John B., Sept. 23, 1887; died Sept. 8, 1898.
8. Grace E., Sept. 19, 1891; married Robert Odell, now with Smith, Gray & Company, of Brooklyn, N.Y.
9. Leon M., July 14, 1896; student in high school in Ticonderoga.

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