Charles Lemuel Eakin Biography


	This biography appears on page 1569 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	CHARLES LEMUEL EAKIN, the owner of a finely improved ranch of 
sixteen hundred acres, near Blunt, Hughes county, is a native of 
Illinois, having been born in Indianola, Vermillion county, on the 2d of 
August, 1865, and being a son of Edmond W. and Ellen M. Eakin. He was 
afforded the advantages of the excellent public schools of his native 
state, completing his specific scholastic discipline in the high school 
at Danville. He continued to reside in Illinois until 1883, when he came 
to what was then the territory of Dakota, and here he has achieved 
prosperity and independence and gained prestige as one of the able 
business men and influential citizens of his home county, where he is 
held in high esteem by all who know him. In politics Mr. Eakin is a 
stalwart adherent of the Republican party, and in a social way he is 
affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, the Ancient Order of United 
Workmen and the Knights of the Maccabees. 

	On the 11th of November, 1891, Mr. Eakin was united in marriage to 
Miss Etta J. Sheldon, who was born in Eyota, Olmsted county, Minnesota, 
in 1865, and whose death occurred on the 14th of May, 1892. She was a 
daughter of Porter G. and Caroline Sheldon, who were numbered among the 
pioneers of Minnesota. On the 8th of July, 1895, the subject consummated 
a second marriage, being then united to Miss Lelia Bailey, who was born 
in Rochester, Illinois, on the 8th of March, 1870, being a daughter of 
Emory and Lucinda Bailey. Mr. Eakin has three children one of whom was 
born of the first marriage. and two of the second, namely: Etta S., 
Russell L. and Muriel.