- WILLIAM F. AKIN, farmer; P.O. Janesville, born in Cayuga
Co., N.Y., in September, 1843,
- son of Edward and Adeline AKIN, both deceased, and brother
of M. J. AKIN, who owns a large farm adjoining him. William F.
came, when 6 weeks old, with his parents to Wisconsin. They lived
on a farm in Harmony Township. William F. was born and raised
on a farm; his parents gave him a good education. He assisted
them in working the farm till he was 20 years old, and then began
life for himself. At the age of 20, in 1863, he bought forty
acres of unimproved land, which he improved and sold at a profit,
in 1865. In 1864, William F. enlisted in Madison, Wis., in Company
H, 42d Regt., Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. They were sent to
Cairo, Ill., and detailed on duty in different parts of that
State; mustered out in June, 1865, he returned home and engaged
in farming. Married in Harmony, in the fall of 1865, Miss Vina
GREEN, who was born in March, 1845, in Ontario Co., N.Y.; have
six children - Clarence, born in 1866; Julia, in 1869; George,
in 1871; Edna R., in 1873; Edward in 1875; Henrietta in 1878.
Mr. AKIN and his wife went, in the fall of 1866, to Harrisonville,
Cass Co., Mo., where he bought 100 acres of wild land, on which
he built, lived and worked till the fall of 1867; he sold that
farm, and they returned to Harmony Township, where he worked
and managed his father's farm. In 1874, he bought eighty acres
of unimproved land, on which he is now living; he built a new
house and made other improvements; has forty-five acres under
cultivation; he raises the usual crops of the county, Norman
horses, hogs (Poland-China crossed with Berkshire); besides working
his own farm, he is renting and working other farms successfully.
Religion, liberal; radical Republican.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, p. 890.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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