AKIN, James  (c1773-1846) Colonial American engraver,
           copperplate, wood engraver, miniaturist, designer.
           Name variation:  Aitken, James.
           Born Charleston, South Carolina, moved to Philadelphia
           (c1790). Listed in first directory of engravers, 1799.
           Worked in Newburyport, Massachusetts (1804-08) where
           he created his only known medal.
           Died Philadelphia, 18 July 1846.

           M   E   D   A   L   S

1804 Merrimac Humane Society Medal . . . . . . .  Storer 1486

           B I O G R A P I C A L  R E F E R E N C E S

101 {1799} New Trade Directory for Philadelphia, p 58.
Px  {1898} Sanborn (Franklin B.) Thomas Leavitt and His Artist Friend James Akin, Granite Monthly            
           (October 1898) 25:224-34.
101 {1906-09} Currier (John James)  History of Newburyport Massachusetts 2:130, 372.
D3  {1911} Benezit (1999 14ed), 1:132.
D7  {1921} Bolton.
M10 {1923} Storer (Massachusetts) 1486, p 191.
D15 {1957} Groce and Wallace, p 3.
BF2 {1999} Falk. Who Was Who in American Art, p 1:70.
D3a {2006} Benezit. Dictionary of Artists, 1:203.