Tuscola-Saginaw County MI Archives Biographies.....Atkin, George 1858 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

GEORGE ATKIN. We are gratified to be able to give to our readers a sketch of
another member of one of the representative families of Arbela Township, Tuscola
County, in the person of George Atkin, son of Thomas and Ann (Barker) Atkin, of
whom we have elsewhere spoken more at length. He is a native of Lincolnshire,
England, and was born December 16, 1858. In his native home he remained until he
reached the age of twenty-one, and there pursued the work of a day laborer. He
decided that if he would get ahead in the world and provide as he should for the
future he must leave the overcrowded regions of the Old World and come to America.

  When this young man landed in this country in 1880, he came directly to the
West, and two years later he took up a farm of forty acres which he still owns.
He was a poor man and when he started for himself in the New World he had only
fifteen cents as his capital, but he had a great capacity for hard work, and an
undaunted perseverance. He followed farming and milling in Saginaw County and
also in the woods of Northern Michigan.

  George Atkin celebrated Christmas Day in 1887 by being united in marriage with
Emma Harris, a native of Genesee County, this State. This lady is a daughter of
Isaac and Cornelia (Van Branken) Harris, natives of Lockport, N. Y. On the 22d
of September, 1891, our subject was married to Annie, daughter of Christian Shultz.

  Mr. Shultz was born in New York and there grew to man's estate and married
Lena Wagner, who was also a native of the same State. One son and four daughters
were born to them and at an early day Mr. Shultz decided to better the prospects
of his young and growing family by coining to the Far West, as Michigan was then
called. They therefore became pioneers in Tuscola County, settling in Fremont
Township, where his faithful companion departed this life in 1886. Mr. Shultz
was a farmer throughout life but left his home to enlist in the service of his
country during the late war.

  During the year 1888 Mr. Atkin resided on his farm and then went to Saginaw
which he made his home for three years, and then in 1891 came to reside upon the
place where he now lives. The political doctrines which are promulgated by the
Republican party are the ones which Mr. Atkin considers most sound and best
adapted to the ultimate prosperity of our country.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Portrait and Biographical Record of Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties,
Michigan, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative
Citizens, Together with Biographies of all the Governors of the State, and of
the Presidents of the United States

Chicago:
Chapman Bros.
1892


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