U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: --------------------------------------------------------------------- Akins, Ira Alvin (b.1874) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Source: West Virginia Legislative Hand Book and Manual and Official Register Author: Compiled and Edited by John T. Harris, Clerk of Senate The Tribune Printing Co., Charleston, W. Va. Page 785 AKINS, IRA ALVIN. (Democrat.) One of the members of the House of Delegates from Marion county; resides at Fairmont. Born August 2, 1874, at Circleville, Pennsylvania; attended the common schools of that state and spent one year in high school; came from a line of Scotch-Irish ancestry who settled in Western Pennsylvania; became a resident of West Virginia in 1896; occupation, railroad conductor; has been connected with the Baltimore & Ohio and the Ohio River railroads for twenty years, and has represented railroad employees in wage adjustments and other ways; committee assignments, session of 1915: Railroads; Federal Relations; Executive Offices; Labor; State Boundaries. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Additional Information: --------------------------------------------------------------------- VITAL RECORDS Marriage Certificate, Marion County WV, 1898, Page 183 Ira Alvin Akins, age 23, born in Westmoreland County PA Georgia Linden Combs, age 22, born in Marion County WV were married 20-Apr-1898 in Fairmont by L. W. Barr, Minister Death Certificate, Marion County WV #6562 Full-name: Georgia L. Akins Wife-of: Ira Akins Date-of-Birth: 5-Aug-1875 in Fairmont, WV Date-of-Death: 24-May-1928 in Fairmont, WV Father: Leslie S. Combs (born in Smithtown PA) Mother: Cariolyn Stone (born in Fairmont WV) Cause-of-death: Diabetes Mellitus Informant: Ira Akins Burial: Woodlawn Cemetery --------------------------------------------------------------------- US FEDERAL CENSUS INFORMATION 1900 Census, Marion County WV Fairmont District, Ward 3, ED:52, Sheet 13B Lines 75-77, Monroe Street AIKEN, Ira (head), Aug-1874, 25, M-2yrs, Pa-Pa-Pa, Day-Laborer ", Georgia L. (wife), Aug-1875, 24, 1-child/1-living, WV-WV-WV ", Harry B. (son), Jan-1899, 1, WV-Pa-WV 1910 Census, Marion County WV Union District, ED:74, Sheet 10A Lines 16-21, Enum-Dwelling #172, Enum-Family #181 AKINS, Ira A. (head) 35, M1-12yrs, Pa-Pa-Pa, Conductor, Steam Railroad ", Georgia L. (wife) 34, 3-children/3-living, WV-WV-WV ", Harry B. (son) 11, WV-WV-WV ", Elizabeth C. (dau) 8, WV-WV-WV ", Mary A. (dau) 6, WV-WV-WV COMBS, Leslie S. (f-in-law), 68, M1-36yrs, WV-WV-WV, Laborer, Planing Mill ---------------------------------------------------------------------