[p. 599] Register of Wills and Recorder of Deeds for Lawrence County, has occupied his pleasant residence at No. 356 Carlisle Street, New Castle, since May, 1908, and is one of the best known and most popular public officials in the county. He was born February 28, 1872, in Scott Township, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, and is a son of William and Mary (Nelson) Eakin, and a grandson of William Eakin.
Both grandfather and father of Mr. Eakin were born in Ireland, and after coming to Lawrence County settled in Scott Township. The father of William A. still survives and continues to live on his farm there, to which he came when eighteen years of age. He married Mary Nelson, who belongs to one of the early pioneer families of that township.
William A. Eakin attended the public schools of Scott Township and a private school at Harlansburg, after which he went to Princeton, in Slippery Rock Township, where he learned horseshoeing and blacksmithing, where he remained until October, 1892, when he removed to Hillsville. There Mr. Eakin engaged in a vehicle and harness business, together with a blacksmith business, and resided in that village until November 1907, when he was elected to his present office, the duties of which he assumed on January 6, 1908. He is a Republican in politics and is well known all over the county as a loyal party man and an honest citizen. For three years he served as a member of the School Board of Mahoning Township and in many ways has testified to his public-spirited interest in the general welfare.
Mr. Eakin married Maggie McIntosh, who was born at Hillsville and is a daughter of William McIntosh, who is the superintendent of the Carbon Limestone Company of that place. They have two children, Francis E. and Janey M.
Mr. Eakin is a member of the Home Guards at Lowellville, Ohio, and of Marietta Lodge, Knights of Pythias, at Mt. Jackson. He is one of the leading members of the Zoar Baptist Church at Hillsville.
20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens Hon. Aaron L. Hazen Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, Chicago, Ill., 1908
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