and Fifty-ninth Congresses), and of member of the Committee on Interstate Commerce (Fifty-seventh through Sixty-first Congresses). Elkins served as Senator until his death in Washington, D.C. in 1911, and is interred in Maplewood Cemetery of Elkins, West Virginia. Legacy Stephen Benton Elkins is the namesake of Elkins, West Virginia. See also Davis & Elkins College, in Elkins, WV; named for Senators Elkins and Davis Halliehurst or Senator Stephen Benton Elkins House List of United States Congress members who died in office (1900–49) References Further reading Lambert, Oscar Doane. Stephen Benton Elkins: American Foursquare (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1955. viii + 336 pp. Williams, John Alexander. West Virginia and the Captains of Industry (1976) Williams, John Alexander. "Davis and Elkins of West Virginia: businessmen in politics" (PhD dissertation, Yale University, 1967) ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 1967. 6708432. Williams, John Alexander. "Stephen B. Elkins and the Benjamin Harrison Campaign and Cabinet, 1887-1891." Indiana Magazine of History (1972): 1-23. online Retrieved on 2008-10-19 Biography in Secretaries of War and Secretaries of the Army published by the United States Army Center of Military History Stephen B. Elkins, late a senator from West Virginia, Memorial addresses delivered in the House of Representatives and Senate frontispiece 1912 External links Death of Stephen B. Elkins |- |- |- 1841 births 1911 deaths American bank presidents American city founders American energy industry executives Benjamin Harrison administration cabinet members Businesspeople from West Virginia Davis and Elkins family Delegates to the United States House of Representatives from New Mexico Territory District attorneys in New Mexico Members of the New Mexico Territorial Legislature New Mexico Attorneys General Union Army officers United States Secretaries of War United States Attorneys for the District of New Mexico People from Elkins, West Virginia People from Perry County, Ohio People of Missouri in the American Civil War Republican Party United States senators from West Virginia University of Missouri alumni New Mexico Republicans Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from West Virginia 19th-century American politicians Davis & Elkins College