Fifty years and over of Akron and Summit County : embellished by nearly six hundred engravings--portraits of pioneer settlers, prominent citizens, business, official and professional--ancient and modern views, etc....

SAMUEL ALANSON LANE, fourth son of Comfort and Betsey (Sikes) Lane, was born in Suffield, Hartford County, Conn., June 29, 1815. The father, a carriage maker by trade— an extensive manufacturer of the old-time thorough-brace stage coach —owing to a natural aptness in that direction, had designed the boy, Alanson, for a carriage and ornamental painter, and hence, during his childhood, he was permitted to dabble in colors to his heart's content, his own face, hands and clothing often presenting a more variegated and picturesque appearance than the majority of the lavishly bepraised subjects of his juvenile pencil.