History of Branch county, Michigan, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers . JABIN R. GWIN. JABIN 11. GWIX.Among the successful and self-made men of Sherwood,the subject of this narrative occupies a prominent posi-tion. He was born in Green township, Richland Co.,Ohio, Jan. 17, 1816. His father, Joseph Gwin, who wasa farmer, had two sons, Jabin R. and Calvin W. Jabinlived at home until be Wius seventeen, when he commenced43. 1 ^ MRS. JABIN R. GWIN. life for himself :is a farm laborer. At the age of twenty-two he was married to Miss Lorinda Peas
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History of Branch county, Michigan, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers . JABIN R. GWIN. JABIN 11. GWIX.Among the successful and self-made men of Sherwood, the subject of this narrative occupies a prominent posi-tion. He was born in Green township, Richland Co., Ohio, Jan. 17, 1816. His father, Joseph Gwin, who wasa farmer, had two sons, Jabin R. and Calvin W. Jabinlived at home until be Wius seventeen, when he commenced43. 1 ^ MRS. JABIN R. GWIN. life for himself :is a farm laborer. At the age of twenty-two he was married to Miss Lorinda Pease, of Genesee Co., N. Y., where she was born Nov. 22, 1820. In 1840 hecame to Michigan and purchased a farm in Cass County.His venture proved unprofitable, and in 1849 he removedto Wisconsin. After a residence of two years he returnedto Sherwood and pnrcha.sed the farm now owned by Frank 338 HISTORY OF BRANCH COUNTY, MICHIGAN. Ensign. Two years subsequently he sold and puicliasedthe farm where he now resides, which at present consists oftwo hundred acres. The land was entirely new, and thefine farm of to-day is the result of his own energy and in-dustry. A view of his place we present on another page, in connection with portraits of himself and wife. Mr. and Mrs. Gwin have been blessed with seven child-ren, three of whom are now dead. Both have passedthrough the ordeal of the construction of a farm and a home from the wilderness, and are entitled to the appella-tion