BIOGRAPHIES:  Eugene S. AKERS, Knapp, Dunn County, WI

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Eugene S. Akers, physician and surgeon, Knapp, Dunn county, was born in 
Ebenezer, Morgan county, Ill., May 10, 1850, a son of George H. and Julia 
E. (Harmon) Akers, both of English descent, the former born in Louisville, 
Ky., in February, 1827, the latter in Wabash county, Ind., the same year.  
The maternal grandfather of our subject was a soldier in the war of 1812.  
The paternal grandfather, Rev. Peter Akers, D. D., was a member of the 
Methodist conference for seventy years, and president of the McKendre 
college and Hamline university for several years.  George H. Akers moved 
from Illinois to Minnesota in 1859, and has since resided there.  Mrs. 
Julia Akers, his wife, is a first cousin of John Harmon, first territorial 
governor of Minnesota, and was one of the three to name the city of 
Minneapolis.  She is also a relative of Lieut. John L. Worden, of Monitor 
and Merrimac fame.  She is now engaged in literary work, at the present 
time writing a Poetical History of the United States, and has been a writer 
of repute for many years.  Both George H. and wife now reside in Hamline, 
Minn.  Six children have been born to them, of whom our subject is next to 
the oldest.

Eugene S. remained at home on the farm, until eighteen years of age, 
preparing himself for college, after which he taught school several terms, 
in order to earn money to pay for his tuition.  He attended one year at 
both the Hamline and the Madison university.  March 7, 1873, at Red Wing, 
Minn., he married Miss Martha Greer, and to them one child, Mabel M., was 
born September 12, 1875.  His wife only lived three years.  After his 
marriage Mr. Akers taught school and clerked in a drug store to support his 
family and carry him through two years of study at the Detroit Medical 
college, where he graduated at the age of twenty-five years.  He then 
practiced at Morris, Ill., for a short time, after which he came to the 
Chippewa Valley, and located at Prescott, Wis., where he resided one year.  
After the death of his wife he was a wanderer for several years, located in 
Knapp the first time in 1878.  January 22, 1883, he married Mrs. Mary L. 
Carney, a widow of Emerson, Manitoba.  Her parents, Fernando and Mary J. 
White, both reside at Black Creek, Allegany county, N. Y.  Her grandfather, 
E. M. Covell, is now living at Knapp village, at the age of eighty-six years.  
After his marriage Dr. Akers again located at Knapp, where, with the exception 
of a few years spent in travel through the western states, he has since 
resided.  He has been successful as a physician and holds the office of 
health officer for the third term.  One child has been born to his second 
marriage, William Holland, born April 25, 1887.  Mrs. Akers has two children 
by her first husband:  George C. and Archie T.  Dr. Akers is a republican in 
politics.  He was baptized in the Methodist Episcopal faith, and is a member 
of the I. O. O. F. and the Modern Woodmen.

-- Transcribed from the "Historical and Biographical Album of the Chippewa
Valley Wisconsin, 1891-2," page 875