Bios: HENRY W. ALBORN 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens
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HENRY W. ALBORN,
[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.
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20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and
Representative Citizens Hon. Aaron L. Hazen Richmond-Arnold Publishing
Company, Chicago, Ill., 1908
Updated: 17 Oct 2001