BIO: Timothy H. AKERS, Huntingdon County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley: 
Comprising the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata and Perry, 
Pennsylvania, Containing Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens and Many of the Early Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. 
Runk & Co., 1897, pages 69-70.
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  TIMOTHY H. AKERS, Huntingdon, Pa., was born at the foot of Ray's Hill, in 
East Providence township, Bedford county, Pa., October 21, 1837.  He is a 
son of Jesse and Rachel (Hixon) Akers, natives of Bedford county, and of 
American ancestry.  Uriah Akers, the father of Jesse Akers, removed with his 
wife from Loudon county, Va., to Bedford county; they were among the seven 
members who established Methodism in the latter locality, where the first 
Methodist meetings were held in 1793, in an old mill.  The maternal 
grandmother of Mr. T. H. Akers, Leah Hanks, was a sister of the grandmother 
of President Lincoln.  His parents had seven children; their four daughters 
died, two in early infancy, and two after arriving at womanhood.  The sons 
are:  Jabez H., of Junction City, Ore.; Timothy, of Huntingdon; and Jesse 
R., of Carlisle, Pa.
  Mr. T. H. Akers received his education in an old log school house in his 
native place.  He was clerk for his father, after leaving school, in a store 
kept by the elder Akers in what is now Fulton county.  Having held this 
position for fifteen years, he went to Everett, Bedford county, and remained 
one year; then to Bellefonte, where he was engaged in the wholesale tobacco 
and cigar business until 1878.  In this year he removed to Huntingdon, and 
was for two years superintendent of the tobacco and cigar factory of his 
brother, Jesse R.  From 1880 to 1885, he was traveling salesman for Artman & 
Treichler, 713 Market st., Philadelphia.  In 1885, having made a contract 
with the Union Central Life Insurance Co., of Cincinnati, Ohio, he resigned 
his former position as salesman to become their general agent for Central 
Pennsylvania, and has had this agency continuously for eleven years.  He has 
been a resident of the borough of Huntingdon since 1878.  He is a member of 
Centre Lodge, No. 73, I. O. O. F., Centre county, Pa.; and of P. O. S. of 
A., No. 123, of Huntingdon.  Mr. Akers is a director in the proposed street 
railway company.  He is a sound money Democrat.
  Timothy H. Akers was married June 5, 1862, in Chaneysville, Bedford 
county, to Martha A., daughter of Jacob C. and Mahala Mills, of Bedford 
county.  They have four daughters:  Philena B. (Mrs. Oliver C. Mordorf), of 
Trenton, N. J.; Oneta C. (Mrs. E. C. Wells), of Philadelphia; Jessie R.; and 
Martha T., residing at home.  The family are all members of the Methodist 
church.