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Below is a family biography included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Desha County, Arkansas published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1890.  These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.  Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more.  There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

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Lorean Sain is one of the wealthiest real estate holders in Desha County, Ark., and is an excellent example of what energy, industry and perseverance will accomplish. He was born in Lincoln County, of the Buckeye State, in 1829, being a son of John and Susan (Hall) Sain, who were born in Ohio and Pennsylvania, respectively. They removed to Desha County, Ark., in 1839, and in this new country Mr. Sain set energetically to work to make a home for his family, but did not live to carry out his intentions, as his death occurred in 1842. He was a farmer and mechanic by occupation, and had he lived would have undoubtedly become a wealthy man, for he possessed all the requisites necessary to success in life. Lorean Sain was compelled to begin life for himself when very young, owing to his father’s untimely death, and the only educational advantages he received was a short attendance in the public schools of Cincinnati. Inheriting many of his father’s sound ideas regarding agriculture, he determined to make that his calling through life, and his operations in this direction have resulted very satisfactorily, and he is now the owner of 5,000 acres of excellent farming land of which 1,000 acres are cleared and in a good state of cultivation, yielding on an average of 350 bales of cotton each year, and 4,000 bushels of corn. He has two excellent steam cotton-gins on his property, each averaging twenty bales of cotton per day, and is also extensively engaged in the raising of stock, which industry is proving quite remunerative. He was married in 1859 to Miss Martha Jackson, a daughter of D. and Polly Jackson, natives of Georgia, and by her has had a family of eight children: Susan, Carrie, Molly, John S., James, Peter and Lorean; another child died in infancy unnamed, and Susan is also deceased. The mother of these children passed from life in 1881. Mr. Sain is a Democrat, is a member of the Blue Lodge in the Masonic fraternity, and is a patron of all measures of morality, education, temperance, etc., and is ever among the foremost in a reliable, uplifting movement, contributing liberally of his wealth to their support.

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