Bios: CHARLES F. ALBORN: Lawrence County, Pennsylvania
    
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  Biographical Sketches of Leading Citizens
  Lawrence County Pennsylvania
  Biographical Publishing Company, Buffalo, N.Y., 1897
  
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    CHARLES F. ALBORN,
    
    [p. 630] the manager of Big Run Mill of Alborn & Son, located in Shenango
  township, not far from New Castle, was born in Franklin township, Beaver Co.,
  Pa., Oct. 11, 1865, and is a son of Henry C. and Caroline (Young) Alborn, and
  grandson of Augustus and Christiana (Elias) Alborn.
    
    Our subject's grandmother was born near the village of Fuerstenhaagen,
  Germany, where her parents lived and died. Augustus Alborn was a miller when
  a resident of Germany, but after coming to this country in the summer of 1846
  he followed agricultural pursuits. Landing in Baltimore, Md., after a long
  sea-voyage of 51 days from Bremen, he went direct to Pittsburg, and thence to
  Beaver County to the home of kinsfolks, who had preceded him to the New World.
  Commencing with fifty-five acres he succeeded so well that he came at length
  to own one hundred acres besides. His death took place in December, 1885,
  when he was aged seventy-eight years. He and his wife were members of the
  Lutheran Church.
    
    Henry C. Alborn was born in Germany, and was the oldest of five children
  born to his parents, three of whom were born in the Fatherland; he was seven
  years old when his parents brought him with them to the United States. He was
  educated in Butler County, and remained under the parental roof until he was
  twenty-five years old. He then began for himself, first on a farm, which he
  rented from his father, and then on a farm of 100 acres which he purchased in
  Perry township, this county. He next transferred the scenes of his labors to
  Franklin township, near his father, where he operated a farm of seventy-five
  acres for ten years. He bought his present farm in 1874 of ninety-six acres
  in Shenango township, and has since devoted himself to general mixed farming
  and to cider-making. His wife, who was born in the village of Deutchweiler,
  Rheinfels, Bavaria, was a daughter of John and Mary (Miller) Young, the
  latter a daughter of Jacob Miller, a tailor by trade, who lived and died in
  Germany. John Young came to the United States in 1852, and at once became a
  resident of Butler County where his uncle lived. A year after his arrival he
  bought a farm of fifty-six acres, and made it his home until his death in
  1858, aged fifty-two years. Six children were born in the family of our
  subject's parents, as follows: Mary Ellen, deceased; Caroline, the wife of
  Rev. Ivan Dietrich of Allegheny City, to whom she has presented four
  childrenTheodore, Hilda, Luther, and Herman; Charles F., the subject of this
  brief biography; Henry; Tillie, and Frank. Our subject's parents are members
  of the Lutheran Church, and his father votes the Democratic ticket.
    
    Charles F. Alborn lived in Franklin township, Beaver County, until he was
  eight years old, when the family moved to Lawrence County, and made its home
  on what was known as the McEwen farm. He attended school in Beaver and
  Lawrence counties until he was eighteen years of age, and remained at home
  until he was twenty-three, when he learned the business of milling at Big Run
  Mill, under the instruction of E. D. Failer. After the mill was burned, Mr.
  Alborn and his father bought the mill site, including the dam, pond and water
  rights, besides eight acres of adjoining land, and erected the present mill,
  which is fully equipped for making the finest of bolted flour, as well as
  grinding feed and other grist. The mill is fitted out with suitable machinery
  and engines, so that the water power may at any time be reinforced or entirely
  supplanted by steam-power. As the entire product finds a ready local market,
  the firm is not required to look elsewhere for trade. Mr. Alborn is orderly,
  systematic and a great "hustler," and the result of such valuable
  characteristics aiding him in his work is that the business is prospering and
  yields handsome profits to the firm.
    
    Mr. Alborn was married Jan. 21, 1892, at the residence of the bride's
  parents, to Annie M. Weinschenk, daughter of George G. Weinschenk, whose life
  sketch appears elsewhere in this work. Three children have blessed this union:
  Carrie Alice; Emanuel Henry; and Carl Louis, They are members of the Lutheran
  Church, and Mr. Alborn has independent views in politics.