Warren County OhArchives Obituaries.....Corwin, Ichabod, Sen. October 31, 1834
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The Western Star
Ichabod Corwin, Sen.

OBITUARY.

Died, on Sunday evening last, at his residence adjacent to this town – of a
wound which he had received a few days before, from the kick of a horse –
ICHABOD CORWIN, Sen.
[http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohwarren/Bios/bios_main.htm#IchabodCorwin]

He was born in New Jersey, in the year 1766. In the early part of the
revolutionary war his Father removed with his family to the west of the
Alleghany Mountains, and settled near Brownsville in what is now Fayette county,
Penn. There the subject of this memoir resided until he was grown to maturity
and married. Shortly afterwards he migrated to Kentucky and purchased a farm in
Bourbon county, where he resided seven or eight years. 

From Kentucky he came to the N. W. Territory, as it was then called, and settled
on the spot where he died. When he came here – which was in the spring of 1796 –
he had a wife and three children, to which ten more were added during his
residence in this place; all of whom except one survives him, and with their
disconsolate mother feel and lament their loss.

Those who speak of departed friends & acquaintances are prone to exaggerate, &
hold up to view the fairer portion of character and to conceal, or, at least to
throw into shade any foibles or defects that the subject of narrative was
subject to. Whether this propensity be nearest allied to virtue or vice, I will
not undertake to decide. But consistent with truth and with out all exaggeration
it may be averred that few men possess qualities more to be approved and less to
be condemned than Mr. Corwin. Not indeed that he had any claim to great or
shining talents, or such qualifications as command the applause or admiration of
the world; but that he possessed in no small degree, the more humble and less
attractive virtues of integrity, prudence, economy and benevolence;
peaceableness and good will to all his fellow creatures. As a proof of this it
may not be improper to mention that from the blessing of heaven on his industry,
prudence, and frugality, he became possessed of a comparatively large landed
estate. The consequence of which was that for the last 35 years of his life, he
was never without a number of tenants – and all know that nothing is more common
that disputes between landlord and tenant. But in his case, rarely such a thing
as a contest between him and a tenant was ever heard of, and from a personal
knowledge, the writer of this article can affirm that scarcely a single tenant
ever left his premises, whose property was not improved during his tenancy. This
circumstance had at least struck the writer the more forcibly, as in the mean
time he has observed the tenants of some wealthy land-lords never leave the
premises but in extreme poverty or absolute insolvency. To the above might be
added many other facts illustrative of his virtues and conduct, but which are
omitted lest it might be thought that I was composing a panegyrick, instead of
exhibiting a real character.

As he was one of the pioneers of the west his house and family became for many
years the refuge of the newcomer and the weary traveler.

And in his own vicinity few cases of private distress or public exigency have
occurred in which he has not taken an active part and been a prominent agent.

Such was his character, such his principles and such his conduct, that in the
church where he has long been a beloved and respected member and in the
neighborhood where he lived, he has left a vacancy that must remain long,
perhaps forever, unsupplied.

Source: The Western Star, Friday October 31, 1834 [copy obtained from microfilm
available at the Warren County Genealogical Society] 



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