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D. C. Eakin  


D. C. EAKIN, merchant, Centretown, is a son of James and Adeline (Murdock) Eakin, of Venango County, Penn., where our subject was born in 1842. In 1884 he enlisted in Company B, Eighty-third Regiment, and served until the close of the war. He was reared on a farm, and followed lumbering for many years. In 1870 he purchased an interest in the mercantile business at Centretown, with John Hughes, and two years afterward his partner retired from the firm, and he has since continued the business alone. In 1873 he was appointed postmaster of Centretown, and has since held that office. In 1868 he married Mary, daughter of Matthew and Elizabeth Black, of Pine Township, and they have no children. He and wife are members of the Springfield United Presbyterian Church.

Source: (History of Mercer County, 1888, page 1022)


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