Akeley, Healy Cady
lumber merchant, was born March 16, 1836, in Stowe, Vt. He was educated in the local schools, and began life as a farmer and surveyor, and later became a lawyer. In 1863, he enlisted in the second Michigan cavalry as a private, and was mustered out in 1865 as adjutant of the regiment. 1872, he went into the manufacture of lumber in Grand Haven, Mich., and continued therein until removal to Minneapolis in 1887. He was mayor of Grand Haven two terms, and 1866-81 collector of customs for the district of Michigan.
Mr. Akeley is now president of The H. C.
Akeley Lumber Co. of Minneapolis, in partnership with Charles H. Hackley and Thomas Hume, of Muskegon, Mich., president of The Itasca Lumber Co., and president of The Flour City National bank and The Metropolitan Trust Co.