Doctor Atkeson was born at Lawndale Farm, Buffalo, West Virginia, in 1852, son of Thomas and Virginia Harris (Brown) Atkeson. He grew up in a rural community, attended country schools, the Buffalo Academy, Buffalo, WV, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV and in 1874 graduated in law from Kentucky University.
Famed author and agriculturalist Thomas C. Atkeson, who was the chronicler of the Grange Movement and father of the agriculture school at West Virginia University, attended Buffalo Academy, as did his daughter Mary Meek Atkeson, a noted author in her own right and lecturer on rural life.
Doctor Atkeson was born at Lawndale Farm, Buffalo, West Virginia, in 1852, son of Thomas and Virginia Harris (Brown) Atkeson. He grew up in a rural community, attended country schools, the Buffalo Academy, Buffalo, WV, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV and in 1874 graduated in law from Kentucky University.
Famed author and agriculturalist Thomas C. Atkeson, who was the chronicler of the Grange Movement and father of the agriculture school at West Virginia University, attended Buffalo Academy, as did his daughter Mary Meek Atkeson, a noted author in her own right and lecturer on rural life.
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