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Memorials Addresses on the Life and Character of Stephen Benton Elkins (19139 words) |
 | ELKINS was constituted to enjoy these struggles, in the larger sense, and to him the overcoming of a difficulty was a pleasure and a pride. |
| ELKINS the statesman carried into his public life that innate sense of justice and fair dealing that always characterized him, and he viewed all public questions in a broad and patriotic spirit that won the admiration of his associates and the Nation. |
| ELKINS he was succeeded in the Senate by his son Davis Elkins, and it may thus be seen that there was practically three generations of Senators in the same family. |
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| Stephen Benton Elkins was born in 1841 near New Lexington, Ohio. |
| Elkins was a leading legal authority in New Mexico, as well as a prosperous businessman who had invested in land and mining, founding and presiding over the First National Bank of Santa Fe. |
| Elkins served from 1891 until the end of the Harrison administration in 1893, during which time he expanded the responsibilities of the Division of Military Intelligence and recommended that the salaries of noncommissioned officers be increased. |
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