[p. 418] a prosperous general farmer, of Shenango Township, is located on a fine farm of ninety-six acres. He was born in Franklin Township, Beaver County, Pennsylvania, August 9, 1869, and is a son of Henry C. and Caroline (Young) Alborn, and a grandson of Augustus and Christiana (Elias) Alborn.
Augustus Alborn, the grandfather, was born in Germany and there in early life learned and followed the trade of a miller. In August, 1846, he left his native land for America, and landed in Baltimore, Md., after an eventful voyage of fifty-one days. He immediately therafter located in Beaver County, where he had kinsfolk, and took up agricultural pursuits. He purchased a tract of fifty-five acres in Franklin Township, Beaver County, to which he subsequently added ten acres, and still later forty acres. He lived on and farmed that place some years, then moved to a well improved farm of fifty acres in Franklin Township, where he spent the remainder of his days, dying in December, 1885, at the age of seventy-eight years.
Henry C. Alborn was born in Fuerstenhaagen, Germany, which was also the birthplace of his mother, November 7, 1839, and he died in Shenango Township, Lawrence County, July 3, 1904, after a long and useful life. During his early manhood he farmed some three years on a rented farm in Perry Township, Lawrence County, then returned to Franklin County and purchased a seventy-five acre farm. Ten years later, or in 1874, he sold that property and purchased the farm of ninety-six acres in Shenango Township on which Henry W. Alborn now resides. He was endowed with those excellent qualities of thrift, enterprise and economy, which characterize the German race, and his business success was continuous throughout life. He married Caroline Young, who was born in Deutchweiler, Rheinfalz, Bavaria, one of the provinces of Germany, and is a daughter of John and Mary (Mueller) Young, and a granddaughter, maternally, of George Jacob Mueller, who was a tailor in the old country, where he lived and died. John Young emigrated to America in 1852 and settled in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, where the following year he purchased a farm of fifty-six acres. Henry C. and Caroline Alborn were parents of the following children: Mary Amelia, deceased; Caroline, wife of Rev. Ivan Deitrich, of Allegheny City; Charles F., Henry, Tillie, and Frank E.
Henry W. Alborn was reared on the home farm in Shenango Township and received his educational training in the public schools. He helped farm the place until 1891, when he went west to Knox County, Illinois, where he spent two years. He then returned to Lawrence County and engaged in farming, and worked in the mill which is now conducted by his brothers, for a period of five years. On April 1, 1898, he returned to the old homestead, where he has since followed farming with uninterrupted success. He is a man of public spirit, and a progressive citizen, who enjoys the esteem and good will of his neighbors and many friends.
Mr. Alborn was united in marriage with Alice Weinschenck, a daughter of George G. Weinschenck. Religiously, they are members of the Lutheran Church. In national politics, he is a Democrat, but is inclined to independence in local matters, exercising his franchise in favor of the man he feels is best fitted for the office.
20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens Hon. Aaron L. Hazen Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, Chicago, Ill., 1908
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