John WILKIN - History

WILKIN, MOSES

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 6/16/2006 at 14:24:55

"Portrait & Biographical Album of Jefferson & Van Buren Counties", pub. 1890, Page 548 ~~

JOHN WILKIN, Sec. 28, Buchanan Township, born May 7, 1804, on the banks of the river Thies in Yorkshire, England, on the Duke of Northumberland's estate, son of Robert and Ann (MOSES) WILKIN... He lived for seven years under the Territorial government of Iowa... When he came, Indian wigwams marked the site of many a white man's home of today....

*Transcribed for genealogy purposes; I have no relation to the person(s) mentioned.