- M. J. AKIN, farmer, Sec. 33; P.O Janesville; born in Cayuga
Co., N.Y., November, 1836; son
- of Edward and Adaline AKIN. His father was born in Montgomery
Co., N.Y., April, 1803. He was a farmer. Married in Cayuga Co.,
in 1824, Miss Adeline MORGAN, who was born in Montgomery Co.,
N.Y., in September, 1805. They had ten children; nine are living
- Lucy Ann, born in 1826, married O. L. WEST, farmer at Richmond,
Walworth Co.; G. S. AKIN, a physician in Harrisonville, Cass
Co., Mo.; Lois M., married John M. HICKS, a farmer of Harmony
Township; Eunice F. married Ezra CRAMER, a carpenter of Fredonia,
Wilson Co., Kan. Levangah, married Augustus E. WILCOX, farming
in Harmony township; Adeline married Wilson MARTIN, farmer, in
Harmony Township; Wm. F. married Vina GREEN, born in Montgomery
Co., N.Y., and farming in Harmony Township; Emily, unmarried.
M. J. AKIN was born in Cayuga Co., N.Y., in November, 1831; with
his parents, came to Wisconsin 1843; they lived for a time in
Richmond, Walworth Co. In 1844, came to Rock Co.; bought a farm
of 120 acres of unimproved land in Harmony Township. His father
died, January, 1878, and his mother died, January, 1879. M. J.
received a good education, and learned farming thoroughly. When
21 years of age, he bought a farm of 120 acres of good land in
La Prairie, where he lived eight years then sold out and returned
to Harmony Township, where he bought 240 acres of excellent land
on Rock Prairie, where he is now living; raises 100 acres of
barley, seventy of wheat, forty of corn, thirty of clover, vegetables,
stock Leicester sheep, Poland-China hogs sixty head, seven head
of Clydesdale horses. Mr. AKIN is a broad-gauge man; his farm
is on a large plan. He uses all the latest necessary agricultural
implements. He is a radical Republican and has served four consecutive
years as a member of the Board of Supervisors.
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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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