Abel Larkin had mills on Otter creek, Vermont, which were
swept away by floods. He then started with wife and four
children to Ohio, coming to Leading creek in 1804, in June.
He was able to obtain a house on Judge Higley's farm, where
his family remained four years. Mr. Larkin and Judge Higley
were acquainted in Vermont. In 1808 Mr. Larkin moved into
his own cabin on the farm he had purchased. Mr. Larkin was
the first township clerk for Salisbury township, elected July
27th, 1805; was also elected justice of the peace in 1808, again
in 1812, and again in 1818. Afterwards he served as associate
judge for Meigs County.
Their children were four sons and five daughters.
Susanna, born in Vermont in 1796, and died in Rutland in
July, 1805.
Emeline Larkin, born in Vermont 1798, and died in Rutland,
Ohio, in May, 1824, aged twenty-six years.
Abel Larkin, Jr., was born April 21st 1801, married Adeline
Hadley in Illinois, near Mt. Sterling, in 1835. He settled on a
farm in Brown county, where they reared a numerous family
-five sons and four daughters. Three of his sons enlisted in
the Civil war, and one came back alive with injuries from
which he died. He was John Larkin. The daughters were
grown to womanhood, married and moved to different parts
of the country. Mrs. Adeline Larkin died in 1881. Mr. Abel
Larkin, Jr., died in 1884 in Illinois. He had been a pioneer in
Ohio, and going to Illinois in 1829, was a pioneer in that state.
Julia Larkin was born June 29th, 1802, in Rutland, Vermont,
and removed with her parents to Leading creek in 1804. She
was married to Nehemiah Bicknell March 16th, 1826, and
came with him to Lebanon township, to his farm, where she
lived until her death, February 25th, 1863. They had six chil-
dren, one son and five daughters.
Stillman Carter Larkin was born in Rutland, Ohio, March
9th, 1808. He married Mary Hedrick, November 21st, 1837,
and lived on the Larkin homestead until death. Stillman C.
