. History of Shiawassee and Clinton counties, Michigan . al labor at Vernon, in theyear 1845. The association has recently made an extension to thecemetery plat in the purchase of two acres of land adjoining,which is being rapidly improved and beautified. The present trustees of the Greenwood Cemetery Asso-ciation are : President, John Read ; Secretary, A. F. West-cott; Treasurer, A. Garrison. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. HENRY JENNINGS VAN AKIN. The representative of the Van Akin family at presentresiding in Vernon is Henry Jennings, the fourth child ofJames and Elizabeth Van Akin, who was born Jul
. History of Shiawassee and Clinton counties, Michigan . al labor at Vernon, in theyear 1845. The association has recently made an extension to thecemetery plat in the purchase of two acres of land adjoining,which is being rapidly improved and beautified. The present trustees of the Greenwood Cemetery Asso-ciation are : President, John Read ; Secretary, A. F. West-cott; Treasurer, A. Garrison. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. HENRY JENNINGS VAN AKIN. The representative of the Van Akin family at presentresiding in Vernon is Henry Jennings, the fourth child ofJames and Elizabeth Van Akin, who was born July 13,1823, near the village of Dublin, Seneca Co., N. Y., andafter changes of residence with his parents in his nativeState ultimately removed to Vernon, Mich. He assisted inthe clearing of the land his father had purchased until184(5, when, a taste for study having been encouraged, heentered the preparatory class at the Univei-sity of Michi-gan, located at Ann Arbor. Soon discovering, however, awant of taste for the Litin nouns and verbs, he abandoned. ResiOBftcE OF N M. SMITH, Vepnoh Tp. Shiawassee, Co Mich. VERNON TOWNSHIP. 313 the classics for the more active duties of life. The follow-ing year he entered the store of Osborn & Baker, of Hud-son, Lenawee Co., Mich., and the following year was sum-moned home by the death of his father. He was, in 1848, married to Miss Jane Lytic, of Venicetownship, whose death occurred in 1850. Five years later
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