Hiram W. Workman

As printed in 1912

HIRAM W. WORKMAN.

Agriculture has been an honored vocation from the earliest ages and as a usual thing men of honorable and humane impulses, as well as those of energy and thrift, have been patrons of husbandry. The free outdoor life of the farm has a decided tendency to foster and develop that independence of mind and self-reliance which characterizes true manhood, and no greater blessing can befall a boy than to be reared in close touch with nature in the healthful, life-inspiring labor of the fields. It has always been the fruitful soil from which have sprung the moral bone and sine of the country and the majority of our nation's great statesmen, famous warriors, renowned scholars and distinguished men of letters were born on the farm and are indebted to its early influence for the distinction which they have attained.

Hiram W. Workman, of Union township, Knox county, is a farmer and he comes of a family of tillers of the soil, who have been thus engaged for a livelihood for generations. He was born on February 26, 1861, in Tiverton township, Coshocton county, Ohio, the son of Stephen and Mary (Johnson) Workman, both natives of the same vicinity in which the subject was born and there they were reared, grew to maturity and married, the father spending his entire life on the old homestead on which his birth occurred. He farmer all his life and was a substantial and influential citizen. Politically, he was a Democrat and adhered to the Baptist belief religiously. His death occurred in December, 1907, having survived his wife thirty years, she having preceded him to the grave on February 12, 1877, and they are both buried in the Baptist cemetery, near Tiverton Center, Coshocton county.

Sixteen children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Workman, six of whom are living at this writing, four having died in infancy, and twelve grew to manhood and womanhood, namely: Hiram W., of this sketch: Robert W. lives in Holmes county, Ohio; Elizabeth married William R. Parsons, of Holmes county; Emma married Charles Englehart, of Howard township; Allen Thurman lives in Holmes county, and Asa is a resident of Orville, Wayne county.

Hiram W. Workman Avas reared on the home farm and there worked in the summer months as soon as he was old enough, attending the public schools in the winter time. He remained under his parental roof-tree until he was married, on November 17, 1881, to Alice Singer, daughter of John and Ellen (Prost) Singer, the mother having died when Mrs. Workman was an infant. The father is now a resident of the state of Idaho.

Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Workman, named as follows: Sadie, who married Earl Ackert, of Tiverton township, Coshocton county; Grover C. is at home assisting with the work on the place; Walter is deceased.

Hiram W. Workman began farming on the home place in Tiverton township, Coshocton county, and in 1886 he came to Union township, Knox county, locating one mile west of Cavilla, where he is the owner of eighty acres of good land which he farms and on which he raises live stock and feeds considerable stock each year.

Politically, Mr. Workman is a Democrat and he has always been an active party man. He was assessor of Union township for two years. His popularity in his home community is shown by the fact that this is a strong Republican district and that he was elected on the Democratic ticket. He has also served as a member of the township board of education for several years, and he has been a frequent delegate to party conventions where he has always made his influence felt for the good of the community which he represents and the party in general.

As printed in Past and present of Knox County, Ohio (1912). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.