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History of Tuscola and Bay Counties, Mich.
H. R. Page & Co., Chicago, 1883

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        WILLIAM ATKIN, farmer and lumber dealer, was born in England,
    November 25, 1847.  He spent his youth in his native country, and
    came to New York, June 11, 1872, on board the ill-fated steamer
    Atlantic, 562 of whose passengers shortly after lost their lives
    off Halifax, Nova Scotia.  He has spent five years in Lapeer County,
    at Otter Lake, and has now been five years in Arbela.  On November
    10, 1879, he was married to Miss ALMINA BIRD, of Elba, Mich.  They
    have two children, CLARA ANN and CLARENCE WILLIAM.  They have forty
    acres of excellent land and good buildings on section 36.  Mr. ATKIN
    last year raised over forty bushels of wheat to the acre on his
    place.  He is crop correspondent for Arbela Township, to the secre-
    tary of State.  He also deals quite extensively in lumber for him-
    self, and sells on commission for others.  He is agent for the
    L. H. Bennett Improved Plymouth Fanning Mill, and also for the New
    Baltimore Mill, manufactured by William W. Parker & Sons, and also
    for the Almont Nursery, Lapeer County, Mich.
     
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