Sedgwick County KSGenWeb

Portrait And Biographical Album of Sedgwick County, Kan.

Chapman Brothers 1888

Pages 345 - 346

GLADDIN GORIN was born on the 13th of August, 1820, in Todd County, Ky., and is the son of John D. and Martha Gorin, who were natives of Virginia. They left the Old Dominion at an early day, and located upon the farm in Todd County, Ky., where they remained till 1828, and thence moved to Vandalia, Ill., at that time the State capital, and here the father died in 1846, when fifty-six years old. The mother lived to a ripe old age, dying at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Pugh, at Decatur, Ill., in 1876, having nearly attained the eighty-eighth year of her age. Her remains were interred at Vandalia.

     The paternal ancestors of our subject are believed to have been of Scotch descent, and John D. served as a soldier in the War of 1812. The parental household included eight children, of whom the following survive: Maria, the widow of Thomas K. Kirkman, of Scott County, Ill.; Henry M., of Scotland County, Mo.; Elvira, widow of Gen. Isaac C. Pugh, a commander of the Union forces during the late war; Jerome R., of Decatur, Ill., and Gladdin, of our sketch. Those deceased are Dr. Bartley W., John D. and Mary J.

     When about eight years of age our subject removed with his parents from Kentucky to Fayette County, Ill., where they settled among the early pioneers of that region. Young Gorin left his home in 1837, and crossed the Mississippi into Pike County, Mo., where in the town of Louisiana he engaged as clerk in a store of general merchandise, and where he continued until 1842. During that year he took a similar position at St. Louis, Mo., and in 1873 located in Kansas City, where he was employed as book-keeper with the wholesale dry-goods house firm of Tootle, Hanna & Co., until 1881. He next became the employe in the same capacity of the dry-goods house of W. B. Grimes, with whom he remained until 1884. In that year he came to this State, locating first in Wichita, and took up his residence in Clearwater in the spring of 1887.

     Mr. Gorin. while a resident of Louisiana, Mo., was united in marriage with Miss Mary C., daughter of Abraham and Sarah M. Weber, the wedding taking place at the home of the bride on the 19th of October, 1841. Mrs. G. is a native of Center County, Pa., and was born Jan. 18, 1824. Her father died at his home in Louisiana, in 1850, when nearly fifty-five years old. The mother is still living, and makes her home in Florence, this State; she is now in the eighty-sixth year of her age, Their family consisted of nine children, of whom the following survive: Anna L., the wife of Isaac H. Sisson, of Pike County, Mo.; Clara M., Mrs. Thomas McGinness, of Florence, this State; Angela, Mrs. W. W. Bickford, of Florence, and Mary C., the wife of our subject. Those deceased are - Rosalia, Eliza, Helen, Sarah M. and Florence A.

     To our subject and his wife there have been born six children, of whom three only are living, namely: Henry J., who is employed as a book-keeper with the Winner Investment Company; Sally M., the wife of George N. Byers, of Kansas City, and who is book-keeper for the firm of W. Norris & Co., railroad supply merchants; and Joseph R., who lives in Clearwater. Those deceased are Francis A., Horace, and Gladdin, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Gorin are members of the Old-School Presbyterian Church, in which our subject has officiated as Elder. During their residence in St. Louis he was a deacon. He takes an active interest in the maintenance of churches and schools, and has always given cheerfully of his means for the promotion of religion and education. He is independent, politically, with Prohibition tendencies, and endeavors to support the men whom he considers best qualified for office.

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