Bedford County PA Archives Biographies.....Ake, Samuel 
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Source: History of Bedford, Somerset & Fulton Counties, Pennsylvania.  With Illustrations & Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Pioneers & Prominent Men
Author: Waterman & Watkins; Chicago; 1884

Samuel Ake was born in Union township, Bedford county, Pennsylvania, August 
14, 1826.  He read law in the offices of Hon. Thaddeus Banks, of 
Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, and Oliver E. Shannon, Esq., of Bedford, 
Pennsylvania, and was admitted to the bar of this county, February 13, 1852.  
During the war of the rebellion he served in Co. H, 1st regt. Iowa In. (three-
months volunteers), from May 14 to August 20, 1861 and in Co. H, 22d regt. 
Penn. Cav., from February 23, 1864 to August 14, 1865.  Although mustered as a 
private in both organizations, he performed duty as color-sergeant in the Iowa 
regiment and as quartermaster-sergeant in the Pennsylvania command.  He 
participated, with the Iowa regiment, in the fiercely fought engagement, and 
in which Gen. Lyon lost his life--the battle of Wilson's Creek, Missouri.  
Also in the many encounters of he 22d Cav with the enemy in Virginia.  Since 
the war, besides practicing his profession, he has served as clerk in the 
state surveyor-general's office (from May 2, 1866, May 2, 1872) as surveyor 
and civil engineer, and is likewise a well known pension-claim agent.

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