Dec 20,1894 Atkinson Graphic DIED
At the residence of his son, Delbert, in this village, Dec 16,1894, Benjamin Franklin Akin, aged 62 years, 4 months and 16 days.
The deceased was born Aug 1,1832 at Spring Creek, Warren Co, Penn. His ancestors were numbered among the pioneers of the Brokenstraw valley and were important factors in the early development of the then great lumbering resources of that region. They were men of strong physical mold and keen intellectual perception and obtained enviable notoriety far beyond the local limits of the grand old hills that skirted the inviting valley where the subject of this sketch was reared. One of his uncles was a man of remarkable inventive genius and mechanical skills, and in the latter years of the 30’s was famed among river men on the Allegheny and Ohio as constructor of a model steamboat, in which the propelling power was successfully applied from a small upright stationary engine, the result of his inventive genius and skillful handiwork.
The deceased came to the west with the great flood tide of emigration in 1858, an had the pleasure of seeing and to a considerable extent participate in the wonderful developments of this vast industrial empire.
He was a man unassuming in his manners, temperate and frugal in his habits and congenial in his intercourse with his fellow men. Impressive funeral services were had, Rev Blackburn delivering an appropriate and touching discourse, after which his remains, followed by relatives and a large number of friends, were conveyed to, and interred in, the Atkinson Cemetery.
At the residence of his son, Delbert, in this village, Dec 16,1894, Benjamin Franklin Akin, aged 62 years, 4 months and 16 days.
The deceased was born Aug 1,1832 at Spring Creek, Warren Co, Penn. His ancestors were numbered among the pioneers of the Brokenstraw valley and were important factors in the early development of the then great lumbering resources of that region. They were men of strong physical mold and keen intellectual perception and obtained enviable notoriety far beyond the local limits of the grand old hills that skirted the inviting valley where the subject of this sketch was reared. One of his uncles was a man of remarkable inventive genius and mechanical skills, and in the latter years of the 30’s was famed among river men on the Allegheny and Ohio as constructor of a model steamboat, in which the propelling power was successfully applied from a small upright stationary engine, the result of his inventive genius and skillful handiwork.
The deceased came to the west with the great flood tide of emigration in 1858, an had the pleasure of seeing and to a considerable extent participate in the wonderful developments of this vast industrial empire.
He was a man unassuming in his manners, temperate and frugal in his habits and congenial in his intercourse with his fellow men. Impressive funeral services were had, Rev Blackburn delivering an appropriate and touching discourse, after which his remains, followed by relatives and a large number of friends, were conveyed to, and interred in, the Atkinson Cemetery.
Dec 20,1894 Atkinson Graphic DIED
At the residence of his son, Delbert, in this village, Dec 16,1894, Benjamin Franklin Akin, aged 62 years, 4 months and 16 days.
The deceased was born Aug 1,1832 at Spring Creek, Warren Co, Penn. His ancestors were numbered among the pioneers of the Brokenstraw valley and were important factors in the early development of the then great lumbering resources of that region. They were men of strong physical mold and keen intellectual perception and obtained enviable notoriety far beyond the local limits of the grand old hills that skirted the inviting valley where the subject of this sketch was reared. One of his uncles was a man of remarkable inventive genius and mechanical skills, and in the latter years of the 30’s was famed among river men on the Allegheny and Ohio as constructor of a model steamboat, in which the propelling power was successfully applied from a small upright stationary engine, the result of his inventive genius and skillful handiwork.
The deceased came to the west with the great flood tide of emigration in 1858, an had the pleasure of seeing and to a considerable extent participate in the wonderful developments of this vast industrial empire.
He was a man unassuming in his manners, temperate and frugal in his habits and congenial in his intercourse with his fellow men. Impressive funeral services were had, Rev Blackburn delivering an appropriate and touching discourse, after which his remains, followed by relatives and a large number of friends, were conveyed to, and interred in, the Atkinson Cemetery.
At the residence of his son, Delbert, in this village, Dec 16,1894, Benjamin Franklin Akin, aged 62 years, 4 months and 16 days.
The deceased was born Aug 1,1832 at Spring Creek, Warren Co, Penn. His ancestors were numbered among the pioneers of the Brokenstraw valley and were important factors in the early development of the then great lumbering resources of that region. They were men of strong physical mold and keen intellectual perception and obtained enviable notoriety far beyond the local limits of the grand old hills that skirted the inviting valley where the subject of this sketch was reared. One of his uncles was a man of remarkable inventive genius and mechanical skills, and in the latter years of the 30’s was famed among river men on the Allegheny and Ohio as constructor of a model steamboat, in which the propelling power was successfully applied from a small upright stationary engine, the result of his inventive genius and skillful handiwork.
The deceased came to the west with the great flood tide of emigration in 1858, an had the pleasure of seeing and to a considerable extent participate in the wonderful developments of this vast industrial empire.
He was a man unassuming in his manners, temperate and frugal in his habits and congenial in his intercourse with his fellow men. Impressive funeral services were had, Rev Blackburn delivering an appropriate and touching discourse, after which his remains, followed by relatives and a large number of friends, were conveyed to, and interred in, the Atkinson Cemetery.
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