Bios: HENRY C. 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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    HENRY C. ALBORN
    
    [p. 81] is a representative farmer of Shenango township, and resides on his
  farm on lot No. 65, Donation Land, Shenango township, about four miles south
  of the city of New Castle. Mr. Alborn comes from the German Fatherland, that
  proud old empire which has contributed to the United States so many of the
  best and most substantial citizens of the country. He was born in the village
  of Fuerstenhaagen, Nov. 7, 1839, and is a son of Augustus and Christiana
  (Elias) Alborn.
    
    Our subject's mother was born near Fuerstenhaagen, where her parents lived
  and died. Augustus Alborn was a miller when a resident of Germany. He set
  sail from Bremen for America in August, 1846, and after a long sea voyage of
  fifty-one days in a sailing vessel, he landed at Baltimore, Md. From that
  city he came direct to Pittsburg, and thence to Beaver County to the home of
  kinsfolks, who had preceded him to the New World which was so rich in promise
  to the Old World emigrant. After living two months with relatives, Mr. Alborn
  purchased a farm of fifty-five acres in Franklin township, Beaver County, and
  with true German thrift soon began adding to it, first by a purchase of ten
  acres, and then by a subsequent purchase of forty acres adjoining, making
  altogether a farm of 105 acres. Later on, he bought another farm of fifty
  acres near by, and took up his residence on the latter farm, renting his
  former home, but still cultivating the land. His death occurred in December,
  1885, when he was aged seventy-eight years. He and his wife were members of
  the Lutheran Church.
    
    Henry C. Alborn, the eldest of five children, three of whom were born in
  Germany, was seven years old, when his parents came to America. He was sent
  to school in Beaver County, and continued to be a quite regular pupil until
  he was seventeen years of age, from which age until he was twenty-two years
  old he remained under the parental roof, and worked for his father. He then
  began life for himself, renting at first a farm from his father in Perry
  township, Lawrence County, which he operated for three years. He then bought
  seventy-five acres in Franklin township near his father, where he lived and
  labored for ten years. In 1874 he bought his present farm of ninety-six acres
  in Shenango township, on which are standing a fine brick house and substantial
  outbuildings. Mr. Alborn devotes his time and attention to general mixed
  farming, and to the manufacture of cider, having a large steam-power press in
  a convenient location on the homestead. He has planted choice trees, kept
  fences and buildings in excellent repair, and everything in and about the
  premises betokens the existence of thrift and prosperity. He is favored with
  a good, physical constitution, and combines strictness of moral principles
  with energy and decision of character, winning honorable success in business,
  and securing a competence as a product of personal industry and good judgment
  put forth in a field wisely selected.
    
    On March 14, 1861, Mr. Alborn was joined in marriage with Miss Caroline
  Young, who was born in the village of Deutchweiler, Rheinfahls, Baiern, one
  of the provinces of Germany, and was a daughter of John and Mary (Mueller)
  Young, the latter a daughter of George Jacob Mueller, a tailor by trade, who
  lived and died in Germany. John Young came to the United States in 1852,
  sailing from Havre, April 3, and reaching New York City in twenty-six days.
  He came direct to Beaver County, where an uncle had preceded him, and for the
  first year after his arrival rented a house, and worked at what his hands
  could find to do, becoming acquainted with the American language and American
  customs in the meantime. In 1853, he bought a fifty-six acre tract of land and
  began improving it; this continued to be his home until his death in 1858,
  when aged fifty-two years. Of a family of four born to her parents, Mrs.
  Alborn was the third in seniority. Our subject's union with his estimable
  wife, has resulted in six childrenMary Amelia, deceased; Caroline, the wife
  of Rev. Ivan Dietrich of Allegheny City, to whom she has presented four
  childrenTheodore, Hilda, Luther, and Herman; Charles F., whose sketch
  appears elsewhere in this Book of Biographies; Henry; Tillie; and Frank. Mr.
  and Mrs. Alborn with their family are members of the Lutheran Church. Mr.
  Alborn is a Democrat in politics.