John K. Hamblin and Elizabeth Hickok

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Husband John K. Hamblin ¹

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           Born: 2 Mar 1809 - Wilmington, Essex Co, NY 1
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         Father: Samuel Hamblin (      -1838) 1
         Mother: Rhoda Smith (      -      ) 1

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       Marriage: 20 Sep 1835 - Wilmington, Essex Co, NY 1

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   Other Spouse: Mrs. Eunice B. Hunstable (      -1888) 1

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Wife Elizabeth Hickok ¹

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           Born: 10 Sep 1810 - Essex Co, NY 1
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Children

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1 M Henry M. Hamblin ¹

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           Born: 29 Aug 1836 - Lake Co, OH 1
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2 F Mary E. Hamblin ¹

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         Spouse: [Unk] Thalimer (      -      ) 1

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3 M Samuel Hamblin ^{2 3}

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           Born: 7 Jan 1840 - Greenville, Mercer Co, PA 2
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         Spouse: E. J. Kyle (      -      ) 2
           Marr: 7 Dec 1861 2

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4 F Harriett Hamblin ¹

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         Spouse: [Unk] Donaldson (      -      ) 1

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5 F Emeline Hamblin ¹

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         Spouse: [Unk] McClelland (      -      ) 1

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General Notes: Husband - John K. Hamblin

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In 1829 he came west, and located in Unionville, Lake County, Ohio, and taught school in that county two terms. He then, as confidential clerk, took charge of a furnace store in the same county, which position he filled three years, and then went to Cleveland, Ohio, to occupy a similar position. In 1835 he went back to Wilmington, New York, and was there married. He immediately returned to Lake County, Ohio, and resided there until March, 1838, when he removed to Greenville, Pennsylvania, and opened on Canal Street the first foundry operated in the town, and one of the first in Mercer County. For more than fifty years, excepting one short interval, he was then continuously engaged in the same business, the later foundry being just across the street from the site of the first he established.

Hamblin, Sons & Co., manufacturers of automatic balance slide valve steam engines, circular saw-mills, head blocks, saws, brass goods, pipe and fittings, are the successors of a business enterprise that was established in March, 1838, by J. K. Hamblin and Gardner Bond, in a small frame building directly opposite the present site. It is claimed for the firm of Hamblin & Bond that they were the first foundry operators in Greenville, and one of the first in Mercer County. Their products were mainly plows and lock castings for the Erie Canal, which was then in course of construction. In 1850 the name of the firm was changed to Bond, Heath & Co., and three years later to Hamblin & Heath, under which title the enterprise was continued with varying success until 1866, when the works were destroyed by fire, with a total loss of all machinery and products. Shortly afterward, however, the business was resumed by J. K. Hamblin, who built and occupied the present quarters. March 15, 1870, by the association of Hon. Jacob F. Kreps, of Westmoreland County, Penn., and Samuel Hamblin, a member of the present firm, the title of the business became Hamblin, Kreps & Co. On the 28th of August, 1871, a reorganization took place, and the present firm, consisting of J. K. Hamblin, Samuel Hamblin, H. M. Hamblin and A. T. Kreps was formed. Since then the business of the foundry has been considerably increased, and the market now extends into several States, as far south as South Carolina, and west through Ohio. Connected with the enterprise is a general jobbing department, in which all sorts of castings are made and miscellaneous repairing done. [HMC 1888, 438]

1 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 793.

2 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 794.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. IV (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 21.