LAKIN, J. S.

LAKIN, LESHOME, STUART, CHAMBERS

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 5/12/2019 at 22:01:44

MONTROSE TOWNSHIP

LAKIN, J. S., millwright, Montrose; was born in 1811, in Frederick Co., Md. ; he removed to' Columbus, Ohio, in 1832, where he resided eight years ; came to Iowa, and located at Muscatine, in 1839 ; to Montrose in 1857. He was married in 1835, to Julia A. Leshome, a native of Maryland ; has had eight children ; three now living — David, John and Emma (now Mrs. Stuart) ; Mary E. married Mr. John Chambers, of Muscatine ; she died in 1857. Mr. Lakin has been Justice of the Peace four years, and Mayor of Montrose four years.

Source: BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY
HISTORY OF LEE COUNTY IOWA
CHICAGO: WESTERN HISTORICAL COMPANY, 1879

Transcription typed/proofed as article was originally published in 1879