HAHN, Adam F.

HAHN

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Date: 5/30/2021 at 15:18:37

Adam F. Hahn
A. F. Hahn, a farmer and minister of the Evangelical Church of Garfield township, Ida county, was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, June 12, 1842, a son of William Hahn, a native of Maryland. The latter’s father, Adam Hahn, was born in Baltimore county, Maryland. Two brothers of William Hahn were soldiers in the war of 1812. The mother of our subject, formerly Mary Magdalena Sents, a native of Virginia, was a daughter of Henry Sents, who was also born in that State. Mr. and Mrs. Hahn were the parents of eleven children, nine of whom grew to years of maturity, and two were soldiers in the late war; John, in the One Hundred and Fifteenth Ohio Infantry; and Henry in the One Hundred and Seventh Ohio Infantry. The father died in Knox township, Columbiana county, Ohio, at the age of sixty-seven years, and the mother departed this life at the same place, aged forty-two years. The former was a farmer by occupation and a Democrat of the old Jacksonian type.
A. F. Hahn, the subject of this sketch, was reared to farm life, and received a common and high school education. He united with the Lutheran Church in early life, ant at the age of twenty-two joined the Evangelical Association, and was licensed to preach in 1877, and was regularly ordained in 1883. In 1865 he located near Vinton, Benton county, Iowa, but in 1881 located on a farm of wild land in Garfield township, Ida county. He now owns 200 acres in one body, well fenced and improved, a good, one and a half story residence, 20 x 26 feet, a barn, 32 x 36 feet, and a good pasture, grove and orchard.
Mr. Hahn was married at the age of twenty-one years to Miss Caroline Kern, who was born, reared and educated in Ohio, a daughter of Solmon and Catherine (Keck) Kern. To this union has been born eight children: Eldon E., who resides and owns 160 acres in Garfield township; Eli Ellsworth, studying for the ministry at Highland Park College; Alfred F., Adam E., Samantha O., Clara O., and two who died in infancy. Mr. Hahn votes with the Republican party, and has served as Justice of the Peace of Benton county, Iowa, for eight years successively. He has been engaged in ministerial work for many years, still has charge of his congregation, and is on of the leading and progressive men of Ida county.
Source: Biographical History of Crawford, Ida, and Sac Counties, Iowa, 1893, p.437