In Washington Elkins met Hallie Davis, daughter of Sen. Before his election his wife died, leaving him with two small daughters, Elizabeth and Sallie. In 1872, he was elected to represent the New Mexico Territory in Congress. He served as New Mexico’s attorney general in 1867 and as its U.S. He moved west the same year, settling in Mesilla, New Mexico. He attended law school at least briefly and was admitted to the Missouri bar in 1864. During this time Elkins taught Cole Younger, later a notorious outlaw, and Younger once saved Elkins from Confederate guerrillas during the Civil War.Įlkins, whose father and brothers were in the Confederate army, served two years in the Union army as a captain. After graduation he taught school at Harrisonville, Missouri.
Young Elkins attended Masonic School at Lexington, Missouri, and graduated at the head of his class at the University of Missouri in 1860.
His father, originally from Virginia, moved the family from Ohio to Missouri when Stephen was small. Senator Stephen Benton Elkins (September 26, 1841-January 4, 1911) was born in Perry County, Ohio, and died at Halliehurst, his home in Elkins. Elkins | Back to e-WV The West Virginia Encyclopedia
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