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History of the Western Reserve, Volume 3
By Harriet Taylor Upton, Harry Gardner Cutler
"Henry B. Hamlin.? Prominent among the best known and highly respected citizens of Wellington is Henry B. Hamlin, whose father, Alamanza Hamlin, was a pioneer settler of the Western Reserve, and for many years a valued resident of Huron county. He comes from honored New England ancestry, being a lineal descendant of one James Hamlin, who emigrated from London, England, in 1639, becoming one of the original settlers of Barnstable, Massachusetts, where, according to early records, he was a landholder.
The descendants of James Hamlin, the emigrant ancestor, became scattered throughout the country, some of his more immediate ones locating in Sharon, Connecticut, where Deacon Benjamin Hamlin, the grandfather of Henry was born, his birth occurring in 1760. He married Deborah Rowley, who was born in 1762. Deacon Hamlin lived about three-score years, his death occurring October 6, 1820, but his widow survived him many years, passing away September 8, 1848, at a venerable age. Of the twelve children born to Deacon and Mrs. Hamlin, four died in early childhood, Alamanza, the eleventh child, being the father of the subject of this sketch.
Alamanza Hamlin was born November 21, 1797, in Sharon, Connecticut, and was there brought up and educated. Coming to the Western Reserve as a young man he bought large tracts of land in Huron and Lorain counties, and from the forest improved a good homestead, on which was spent his remaining years, dying January i, 1854. He married Mary R. Webster, who belonged to a prominent family of that name in Wellington, Lorain county, Ohio, their marriage being solemnized May 13, 1847. She survived him many years, her death occurring January 4, 1899. Three children were born to them, namely : David, born May 8, 1849, died April, 1859; Henry the special subject of this brief biographical sketch ; and William, born January 4, 1853, died in 1854.
Henry B. Hamlin, born October 5, 1850, lived on the home farm until 1858, when he came with his widowed mother to Wellington to live. He subsequently began his early studies in the public schools of this place, and afterward attended Oberlin Commercial Institute in Oberlin, Ohio, and Berea College in Berea, Kentucky. On his return to Wellington, Mr. Hamlin was employed as a clerk in a dry goods store for a year or two, after which he was in the First National Bank of Wellington for about a year. Embarking then in the grain business, he carried it on successfully for a period of ten years. In March, 1883, Mr. Hamlin made a decided change of occupation and residence, going to Wadena, Minnesota, where he was engaged in business as a lumber dealer and farmer for seven years, being exceedingly prosperous in his operations. Removing then to Tennessee, he lived in Knoxville for two years, from there coming, in the spring of 1893, to Wellington, where he spent a year. Returning to Minnesota in March, 1894, Mr. Hamlin located in Duluth, where he purchased a seat in the Duluth Board of Trade. A few months later, on account of the ill health of his mother, who made her home with him, he returned to his old home in Wellington, where he has since resided.
Although not engaged in active business pursuits, Mr. Hamlin has been financially interested in the extensive business of The Horr- Warner Company since 1894, when he bought the stock of the late C. W. Horr, one of its founders, and since the incorporation of the company has been one of its directors.
On January 8, 1873, Mr. Hamlin married Abbie C., daughter of the late Hon. Rollin A. Horr. She was born July 15, 1854, in Huntington, Lorain county, where her father was for many years a man of prominence. Removing with his family from Huntington to Wellington in 1864, Rollin A. Horr assisted in that year in the organization of the First National Bank of Wellington, and the following twenty-seven years served as its cashier, afterward becoming its vice-president. Mr. Horr was also a member of the W. R. Santley & Co. lumber firm, and of the Clarksfield Stone Company. Prominent and influential in political circles, Mr. Horr served as a Republican member of the Ohio state senate in 1880, 1881, 1882 and 1883, while from Octo
ber 8, 1891, until June i, 1893, he was a special employe of the United States treasury department, serving under Secretary Foster. Mr. Horr married in 1853 Sarah A. Ames, and the children were: Abbie C., Roswell P., Rollin Walter S., Warner M., Charles P., Nell A. The mother of these children died September 23, 1909.
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