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| Repository: | Appalachian State University W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection |
| Creator: | Reverend J. Norton Atkins |
| Title: | Reverend J. Norton Atkins Papers, 1900-1919, n.d. |
| Language of Material: | Material in English |
| Location: | For current information on the location of these materials, please consult Appalachian State University. |
| Abstract: | The J. Norton Atkins Papers is a collection of Atkins' correspondence and working papers generated while he was an Episcopal teacher and priest in Ashe and Watauga Counties of North Carolina. |
| Extent: | 1.5 linear feet, 3 archival boxes |
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[Identification of item], Reverend J. Norton Atkins Papers, W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina, NC, USA.
George Albert Atkins donated this collection to the W.L. Eury Appalachian Collection on 23 October 2002. The accession number is 02-44. This collection was opened to the public on 5 November 2002. Atkins donated an addition on 21 October 2005.
Processed by Kathryn Staley, November 2002
Encoded by Kathryn Staley, January 2005
John Norton Atkins was born in 4 August 1881 to George Washington Ely Atkins in Bayonne, New Jersey. His father was a vice president of Western Union. He was called both Norton and "Tommy", after the British soldier nickname, "Tommy Atkins". Atkins married Katharine Moran of Wisconsin on 31 December 1913 at Good Shepherd Episcopal Church in Tryon, North Carolina. They had four children: Mary Katharine (b. 6 April 1915), Joseph (b. June 1917), John Jr. (b. January 1919), and George Albert (b. 1920). Atkins died on 11 September 1962 in Blowing Rock Hospital. Atkins and his wife are buried at Holy Cross Episcopal Church in Valle Crucis, North Carolina.
Atkins was a teacher at the Valle Crucis Mission School from November 1902 to June 1904. From 1904 to 1907, Atkins attended General Theological Seminary in New York and spent the summers in Valle Crucis Associate Missions. After being ordained as an Episcopal priest in December 1907, he worked as a mission priest in Ashe and Watauga Counties from 1907 to 1919. In 1910, Atkins worked as the priest in charge at Christ School of Asheville, where he met his wife Katharine Moran. During this time, he lived in the Foscoe community in Watauga County. In 1920, Atkins and his family briefly lived in Vermont until he began working as the University Hospital chaplain at the University of the South.
| Atkins, J. Norton (John Norton), 1881-1962 |
| Horner, Junius M |
| House of Childhood (Watauga County, N.C.) |
| Prout School (Watauga County, N.C.) |
| Episcopal Church. Diocese of Western North Carolina |
| Episcopal Church. Missionary District of Asheville. Student Associate Mission |
| Missionaries -- North Carolina -- Ashe County |
| Missionaries -- North Carolina -- Watauga County |
| Episcopal Church -- Clergy -- Correspondence |
| Watauga County (N.C.) -- Religion |
| Collection 182E. Photographs Series. (1907-1912, n.d.) | |||||||||
| Photographs Series contains photographs and one glass slide. Two photographs are interior views of St. Paul's Episcopal Church of Wilkesboro. | |||||||||
