WABASHA COUNTY, MINNESOTA
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			HISTORY OF WABASHA COUNTY


            TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL MATTER, STATISTICS, ETC.
                   GATHERED FROM MATTER FURNISHED BY 
                       INTERVIEWS WITH OLD SETTLERS,
        COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND OTHER RECORDS, AND EXTRACTS FROM 
                FILES OF PAPERS, PAMPHLETS, AND SUCH OTHER 
                     SOURCES AS HAVE BEEN AVAILABLE. 

                                   ALSO A 

                        HISTORY OF WINONA COUNTY

                                  CHICAGO:
                      H. H. HILL & COMPANY, PUBLISHERS.
                                     1884





Akers, George W., son of Simeon and Margaret Akers, was ushered into this world in 1855, in the 
 State of Kentucky. His youth was spent on the farm, and he was educated at the district schools. He 
 lived at different times in Wisconsin and Kentucky, and finally came to Hastings, Minnesota, in the 
 year 1860. In 1876 he removed to Zumbro Falls, Gillford township, and has been there ever since. In 
 politics he is a democrat. He married Belle Dane, of Wisconsin, and has three children, Simeon, 
 Emma and George.