D. H. Tobin, Calhoun County, AR

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SOURCE: Chicago: The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889.
Contributed by Carol Smith.
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Calhoun County, Arkansas - from Goodspeed's History of Arkansas

D. H. Tobin is another of the prominent farmers of Franklin Township. Born in this county, in 1850, and fifth in a family of eleven children born
to Daniel H. and Rebecca (Harrison) Tobin, natives of Alabama, where the former followed farming until 1845 when he came to Arkansas and
settled in Union County where he remained two years. Here he bought a farm which he soon sold and removed to Calhoun County, where he
entered a tract of 300 acres. He lived here about ten years and cleared about 300 acres and made extensive improvements. He removed from this
State to Texas in December, 1859, and bought a large tract of land in that State; he remained there until December, 1865, when he came back to
Arkansas and settle don a farm six miles south of Hampton. Here he engaged in farming on an extensive scale with free labor, but it did not
prove successful. He died in 1876. From the advent of Mr. Tobin in this section he took a great interest in its affairs. When the county seat of
this county was decided upon, Mr. Tobin surveyed the land and gave the town its name after his old friend, Col. Hampton of Hamburg,
Arkansas. He was interested in the steamboats on the Ouachita in connection with his brother John W. Tobin who was captain. Their first boat
was the "R. W. McCrea" a fine side-wheel steamer. This interest was destroyed at the outbreak of the war. He was in the Confederate service for
three years, engaged mostly in the Southwest. He was in the Confederate service for three years, engaged mostly in the Southwest. He also had
two sons, elder brothers of our subject, in the war. Henry enlisted at the age of fourteen years and served for three years. He died March 21,
1879; his birth occurred March 21, 1849. John W. enlisted in 1862 and served until the close of the war; he died in 1876, two weeks before his
father's death. Our subject was reared on his father's farm, receiving his education in the common schools of his native State, and remained at
home until his marriage in 1873, to Miss Jennie Barker, a native of Calhoun County, daughter of Sheriff Barker. He then entered a homestead and
soon added by purchase 360 acres, making 480, 103 acres of which he has under cultivation. He raises mostly cotton and potatoes, raising one
-half bale to the acre and other crops in proportion. He has a good young orchard, fair dwelling and good outbuildings. This is the result of Mr.
Tobin's industry and labor as he started in life poor, at the close of the war. To the union of Mr. and Mrs. Tobin were born six children, one of
whom is dead, viz: Henry Augustus, John (died in 1882, at the age of five years), Oll, Effie, and Grove Cleveland (Born November 4, 1884), the
date of the election in which Cleveland was elected President, and Mary. He takes an active interest in school matters and has served as school
director. Although not active politically, he votes with the Democratic party, and is one of the whole souled planters of this community.