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DELAWARE AND BUCHANAN COUNTIES.
HIRAM W. SABIN is a representative of Delaware
county's enterprising citizenship, a farmer, and one who has made farming pay,
albeit he has not done so without a large amount of hard labor, and an unusual
degree of close, economical management. Mr. Sabin is
a native of Cuyahoga county, Ohio, and was born June
8, 1848. He
was reared in his native county, and resided ' there till coming to this
county. He is a son of Nathaniel C. Sabin, one of Delaware county's
best citizens, a sketch of whom appears in this work; and in that sketch will
be found the facts relating to the ancestral history of the subject of this
notice.
Hiram W. Sabin came to Delaware county
with his father in February, 1869. He has resided here since. As the dates will
show, he had not attained his twenty-first year by a few months when he came to
this county. His residence here therefore has covered something over half of
his life, and that by far the more active period. He lived with his father in Delaware township,
where the family settled, and, having been brought up to farming pursuits,
naturally took to them on beginning the solution of the bread and butter
problem for himself. He bought the tract of land on which he now resides not
long after he came to the county, paying a small amount down, all that he then
had to pay, and he resolutely set about to dig the balance out of the ground.
He was then unmarried, and he had in contemplation the
making of a home, and worked at his self-imposed task with vigor and
enthusiasm. In 1872 he went back to Ohio, and on December 27th married a
young lady of Cuyahoga county, whom he had known from
girlhood up, and whose future happiness, as well as his own, he had always
kept in view in every important step he had taken since leaving his old
home. Returning, he settled on his
place and began in earnest a career which, it is but simple truth to say, has
been a successful one, and one that ought to be eminently satisfactory to him. Mr. Sabin has
persistently stood by the home of his adoption, and has steadily followed the
course outlined by himself now more than twenty years
ago. During this time he has had the
usual amount of ups and downs that fall to the lot of the farmer, and he has
not infrequently labored under trials and disappointments that taxed his
courage and energy to what seemed their utmost
tension. But these, fortunately, have
never failed him, and each succeeding year has witnessed a slow but gradual
improvement in his condition, and with the gradual rise of his fortunes, and
the meeting and successful management of difficulties, an increased strength and a happy
consciousness of growing power and ability which make the future more hopeful
as he surveys with satisfaction the past.
Mr. Sabin has a farm of one hundred and sixty
acres, lying three miles north of Manchester, one hundred and forty acres of which are under cultivation, representing
the last twenty years of his labor. It
lies well and is productive. He raises
the usual kind of crops grown in Delaware county, giving considerable attention
to grass and stock. He has a comfortable set of buildings and
all needful conveniences. He has not,
as many farmers do, left art wholly out of his calculations in improving his
place. His pleasant home, crowning a gently sloping
eminence, is surrounded with spacious grounds, ornamented with shrubbery,
showing taste in selection, skill in
planting and neatness and industry in keeping. But his place is not a flower garden, where
all is ease, culture and enjoyment.
It is more a hive of industry, where every day means from ten to twelve hours
of labor, where the cares of life increase with increasing fortune and a growing
family of children. In performing
this labor and in meeting these cares
Mr. Sabin has
been cheerfully seconded and
ably assisted by an excellent wife, who
has shared them all and
in every instance done a wife's
full part. Mr. and Mrs. Sabin have been married now for
more than seventeen
years. What they have is largely the result of their joint labors, and
what is here said of the husband as to industry, management and success applies with equal
force to the wife. To make this record
the more valuable as one of reference, as well as a chronicle of progress, the
facts of Mrs. Sabin's family history may here be inserted. Her maiden name was Eva Gates, and she is a
daughter of Charles and Celia (Rathbone) Gates, the
father having been a native
of Onondaga county,
N. Y., born November
9, 1812,
and the mother a native of Onondaga county, N. Y., born December 2, 1822.
These
accompanied their parents to
Ohio at an early day and
settled in Cuyahoga county, where
they subsequently met
and were married, and where they spent their entire
married life, the father dying there August 20, 1871.
In early life he was a tailor; later he followed farming, He was
a man of industrious habits, quiet disposition, and withall
a useful citizen. The mother is still
living, dividing her time as to residence between the families of her daughters,
Mrs. Sabin and Mrs. John B. Rutherford, of the same
community. Mrs. Sabin was born in Cuyahoga county, Ohio, December
27, 1852.
She is next to the youngest of a family of five children, the others
being—James, who was born January 17,1841, and now
resides in the town of Orange, Ohio; Jane E., who was born in 1813 and died
three years later; Helena, now wife of John B. Rutherford, of this county, a
sketch of whom appears in this work, and Charles T., who was born November 24,
1859, and died March 9,1862.
Mr. and
Mrs. Sabin are the parents of five children—Charlie
M., born November 6, 1873; Harry D., born March 13, 1877, and died March 19,
1887; Jerome G., born November 18, 1878; BerniL born March
23, 1881, and Lewis LeRoy, born September 11, 1884.
To their
family and their home Mr. and Mrs. Sabin are greatly
attached, as they have every reason to be. In politics Mr. Sabin
is a republican, having in early years been a stanch supporter of the principles
of that party and still an adherent of its doctrines on national issues. He possesses
strong temperance views and has given the weight of his influence and his votes
also to the cause of prohibition in recent years. He belongs to the Knights of Pythias, and in the benevolent purposes of that order
exhibits a commendable interest.
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