These are the surnames mentioned in the bio below: Morgan, West, Wilcox, Hicks, Gleason, White, Wilber, Corbin, Edden, Gallup, Wagner, Driscol From Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin, publ. 1901 - Page 74-76. MORGAN J. AKIN, a well-to-do retired farmer of Rock county, Wis., has a home at No. 53 Ruger avenue, Janesville, which he has fitted up with all the appliances that conduce to the comfort and peace of modern life. He has led a long and honorable career, has worked and saved, played a man's part in the great struggle for success, and now that the shadows are lengthening down the vale he has a right to a few restful years. Mr. AKIN was born in Cayuga county, N.Y., Nov. 10, 1836, a son of Edward and Adeline (MORGAN) AKIN, both natives of that State. They had three sons and six daughters, and the following children are now living; Lucy Ann, wife of O. L. WEST, of Johnstown, Wis.; Morgan J.; Levanjah, wife of A. E. WILCOX, of Harmony township, Rock county; William F., of Whitewater, Wis.; and Emily W., widow of John HICKS, of Janesville. Edward AKIN, who was a farmer, came to Wisconsin in October, 1843. He spent two years in Janesville, to give his children the privilege of the schools, and then bought 120 acres of government land, which he converted into a productive farm, and made his home there until his death, which occurred in 1877. He was seventy-four years and eleven months old, and his wife survived him one year, also reaching the age of seventy-four. They were both Universalists in their religious faith, and were people of fine character and habits. Ira AKIN, his father, was born i! n New York, of Scotch-Irish descent. His father owned slaves, and he was his father's overseer; the slaves were freed by the State when New York blotted that shame from her statutes. Ira AKIN grew to manhood, married in New York, and reared a family of six children. When his wife died he broke up his home and journeyed West to Sandusky, Ohio, where he made a new beginning, married again, and died in middle life. Jacob MORGAN, the maternal grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was a native of Connecticut, and moved to Cayuga county, N.Y., where his younger children were born, and where he died, at the age of eighty-seven. He was a farmer, and was eighteen years old when the war of the Revolution closed. In that war his father was a soldier, and his maternal grandfather a colonel of militia. Morgan J. AKIN was not quite seven years old when his parents came to Wisconsin and here he grew to manhood, and has lived to the present time, always following the occupation of a farmer. When he became of age, in company with J. E. GLEASON, he bought eighty acres of land in LaPrairie township, Rock county, each buying forty acres. Some years later he sold his land to Mr. GLEASON but the original forty had grown to 120 acres. Having closed up this deal very successfully, Mr. AKIN bought a tract of land comprising 240 acres in Harmony township, which under his careful tillage became a model farm, and continued to be his home until 1896. That year he sold one-half of it, putting the other half into the charge of his son Frank (who has proved himself a very capable farmer), and moved into Janesville to spend his last years quietly and peacefully. He owns a fine residence property, and is very nicely "fixed." Mr. AKIN and Miss Martha WHITE, a daughter of Aaron and Bracey WHITE, were married May 4, 1859. They had three sons and five daughters: Sybil Ann, Reno C., Elsie E., Lettie W., Clifford M., Ida H., Lois M., and George N. Sybil Ann married Walter WILBER, and lives in Harmony township; two children have been born to then, Ethel and Eleanor. Reno C. married Christina CORBIN, and lives in Helena, Mont. Elsie E. is first matron in the Illinois Training School for Nurses at Chicago. Lettie W. is unmarried, and lives in Dane county. Clifford married Miss Ida EDDEN, and lives in Rock township. Ida, Lois and George are still single. Ida is at home, Lois is a "stenographer" in Chicago. George was a soldier, serving in the Philippines, and now makes his home in southern California. Mrs. Martha AKIN, the first wife of our subject, died Feb. 6, 1872, at the age of thirty-six years. Mr. AKIN married Miss Eliza GALLUP, a daughter of Gideon and Maria (WAGNER) GALLUP, March 30, 18! 76, and they have two children, Frank W. and Lucy M. Frank married Elizabeth DRISCOL, and is in charge of the home farm; they have one child, Morgan J. Lucy M. is a teacher, and lives at home. Mr. AKIN belongs to the A. O. U. W. Politically he is a Republican, cast his first vote for John C. Fremont, and has never missed voting since. He was supervisor of the town of Harmony six years, chairman of the town board two years, town treasurer one year, clerk of the school district fifteen years, and has always been an active and public-spirited man. The parents of Mrs. Eliza AKIN were natives of New York, where they were married. They had a family of four sons and two daughters, and three of their children are now living; Andrew, of Sharon, Wis.; Henry, of Janesville; and Mrs. AKIN. The father was a capable carpenter. He came to Wisconsin in the early 'fifties, and located at Johnstown, where he followed his trade for some time, later moving to Mauston, where the family lived seventeen years. At the expiration of that period they came back to the southern part of the State, and settled at Richmond, Walworth county. There Mrs. GALLUP died in the fall of 1875, at the age of seventy-two. Her husband then broke up his home, and went to live with his daughter, Mrs. AKIN. He died under her roof in 1894, at the age of eighty-eight. He was a man of much intelligence, a great reader, and a fine historian. His father, Gideon GALLUP, was born in Connecticut, and came from Scotch-Irish ancestry. His emigrant ancestor, Joh! n GALLUP, came to America in 1630, with two of his brothers, in company with their cousin Humphrey from Plymouth, England, in the ship "Mary and John." They left England March 20, and arrived at Hull, Mass., May 30. Mrs. AKIN's maternal grandfather, Henry WAGNER, came to this country and settled at Rome, N.Y., where he died while still a young man, leaving two daughters and one son.