The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 1037 EARL D. CALKINS. E. D. Calkins, whose name is associated with the wholesale fruit trade at Yakima, comes to the northwest from Nebraska. His birth occurred in Ashland, that state, on the 1st of January, 1890, his parents being Charles E. and Ida May Calkins. The mother passed away in 1896 and the father, removing to the northwest, is now engaged in farming near Sunnyside in Yakima county. E. D. Calkins. after acquiring a public school education in Nebraska, went to Seattle, Washington, where he was graduated from the high school, and later he spent a year as a student in the university of Washington, thus becoming well qualified by liberal educational opportunities for life's practical and responsible duties. He afterward turned his attention to the fruit commission business in Tacoma, where he remained for a year, and in 1910 he came to Yakima, where for one year he was associated with the firm of Richey & Gilbert. Subsequently he spent three years with the Yakima Valley Fruit Growers' Association as warehouse manager and for one year he served as deputy horticulturist for Yakima. In 1916 he joined C. R. Paddock and in 1918 purchased an interest in the wholesale fruit business of which he is now one of the proprietors. They are conducting one of the important enterprises of this character in Yakima, enjoying an extensive patronage, their sales covering a wide territory. On the 27th of February, 1914, Mr. Calkins was married to Miss Verna B. Pratt, of Yakima, and they have become parents of a daughter and son, Dorothy Jean and Richard Earl. Mr. Calkins is a member of the Elks Lodge No. 318 of Yakima and also a member of the Cameretta Club, which is a male chorus, Mr. Calkins possessing an excellent baritone voice. Much of his pleasure and recreation comes to him through music. His political allegiance is given to the republican party, but while he keeps well informed on the questions and issues of the day, he has never been active in politics as an office seeker. His business career is free from any spectacular phases. He has gradually worked his way upward and won his success by legitimate methods and unfaltering industry and he has today gained an enviable position in commercial circles of his adopted city. ******************************** Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in January 2008 by Jeffrey L. Elmer. Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.