Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Lewis Publishing Company, 1904, pp
413-415. [Caldwell]

     DR. JOHN ALLISON AKIN.  For more than three decades Dr. John Allison
Akin has been identified with Princeton, Kentucky, not only as a
practicing dentist but also as a leading representative citizen.  Dr.
Akin traces his ancestry back to Scotch origin.  The first Akins to land
in this country came here as refugees from Scotland on account of the
persecution of the Huguenots [sic], and made settlement in South
Carolina.  Robert H. Akin, Dr. Akin's grandfather, was born in South
Carolina.  He moved to Tennessee, and in Maury county, that state, his
son Allison, the Doctor's father, was born.  Allison Akin was a minister
of the Methodist Episcopal church, South.  His work took him to various
points, and from 1855 to 1866 his home was in Lyon county, Kentucky.  In
the last named year he moved to Caldwell county, Kentucky, and located in
the Rock Spring neighborhood, where he died in 1871, at the age of
fifty-eight years.  His widow survived him until 1890, when she died at
the age of sixty-seven years.  Her maiden name was Mary P. M. Tayloe; she
was a native of Stewart county, Tennessee, and a daughter of John Tayloe,
a native of North Carolina, of English descent.  Allison and Mary P. M.
Akin were the parents of seven children, five sons and two daughters, of
which number one died at the age of two years and one at the age of
seven, the others living to adult years.
     Dr. J. A. Akin is the eldest of the above family.  He was born in
Montgomery county, Tennessee, January 4, 1849, and was a small boy at the
time his parents moved, in 1855, to Lyon county, Kentucky, where he lived
until he reached the age of seventeen.  The years 1869 and 1870 he spent
in the study of dentistry.  In 1871 he began the practice of his
profession at Princeton, where he soon built up and has maintained an
excellent business, his professional career here extending over a period
of thirty-two years.  From time to time Dr. Akin has make profitable
investments in farming lands, and as the result of his years of labor and
good management has gained a fair competency.
     Dr. Akin married, in 1882, Miss Nannie King, daughter of Dr. J. A.
King, of Princeton.  Mrs. Akin was born in Caldwell county, Kentucky, and
educated at the Princeton College.  They are the parents of two children,
namely: Allison, named in honor of his grandfather, is a student in the
Kentucky State College at Lexington; and Melville, at home.
     For many years Dr. Akin has been a member of the Tennessee State
Dental Association; he has been a life-long Democrat, and since he was
nine years old has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal church,
South.  In church and Sunday school work he has always taken an active
part, filling various official positions in the same, and at this writing
he is a steward of the church and superintendent of the Sunday school.

Akin King Tayloe
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SC Maury-TN Lyon-KY Scotland Stewart-TN NC Montgomery-TN

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