. History of Shiawassee and Clinton counties, Michigan . 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. HENRY J. VAN AKIN. he was married a second time, to Miss Margaret E. Holley,daughter of 11. W. Holley, of Vernon. To them fivechildren were b
. History of Shiawassee and Clinton counties, Michigan . 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. HENRY J. VAN AKIN. he was married a second time, to Miss Margaret E. Holley,daughter of 11. W. Holley, of Vernon. To them fivechildren were born, the youngest of whom, Henry R., livedto the age of fourteen years, and died May 5, 1880. Akin was again afflicted in the loss of his secondwife in 1875, and was united to the present Mrs. VanAkin in January, 1879, who was Miss Anna, daughter ofAddison Stewart, of Flint, Mich. Mr. Van Akin still re-tains and lives upon the homestead, located upon the banksof the beautiful Shiawassee River, where duster the mosttender memories of his childhood. Among his early In-dian friends was Shaco, a famous warrior who fought MadAnthony Wayne and frequently boasted the scalps he hadtaken in battle. But two of the large family of eleven children of eTaniesVan Akin survive, (J. W. being a resident of Mount Ver-non, Ohio, and Henry J., the subject of this biography. JAMES VAN AKIN. James, the father of Henry Jennings Van Akin, wasborn on the banks of
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