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Atkin, George

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a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in High Hall, Lincolnshire, England, April 16, 1793. He emigrated to New York state with his parents at the age of seven; experienced conversion in his twelfth year; removed to Kentucky in his twenty-first year, spent four years in school-teaching, and in 1818 entered the itinerancy in the Kentucky Conference. In 1819 he located and retired to Knoxville, where for seven years he taught school. In 1826 he re-entered the travelling connection, and died Aug. 29, 1827: Mr. Atkin was argumentative, agreeable, benevolent, zealous. See Methodist Magazine, 11:172.

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McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Atkin, George'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​tce/​a/atkin-george.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.
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