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S. K. ABRAHIMS, who is successfully engaged in the coach-making trade at Plainfield, has had an active career in business for one still in the prime of vigorous young manhood. He has won success for himself by his own energy and good management, and besides his extensive business and fine home in Plainfield, he is the owner of a fine farm of one hundred acres, well improved, Among the Conedoguinet creek in West Pennsboro township, Cumberland county.

The Abrahims family have resided for several generations in the county, and the various members have all been distinguished for upright lives of industry and usefulness. Enoch John Abrahims, grandfather of S. K., was born in Cumberland county, and there engaged in farming. For a while after his marriage, he lived in Carlisle, but in 1833 he returned to his farm in West Pennsboro township, and made his home there until his death in 1837. His wife, whose maiden name was Heagey, had passed away in September, 1830. Both are buried in the private cemetery of the family in West Pennsboro, about two and a half miles west of Carlisle. There, too, lie the preceding generation of the family. To Enoch John Abrahims and wife were born children as follows: Jacob, who died at Newville, in 1899; Marie, who passed away in 1897; Hannah, who died at the age of fourteen; Sarah, whose death occurred in Carlisle in 1901; Elizabeth, residing in Carlisle; and Samuel.

Samuel Abrahims, son of Enoch John, was born March 12, 1830, in Carlisle. He attended the schools of North Middleton township, whither his father had removed, until he was sixteen years of age. At that time he went to Newville with his brother Jacob to learn the trade of wood pattern making, remaining two years, then going to Carlisle, where he finished his trade with his brother-in-law, Frank Gardner. In 1860 he found employment at Altoona, with the Pennsylvania railroad company, with whom he remained two years in a minor position, and was then made foreman, a position he retained for twenty-eight years. He died June 4, 1897, the father of the following children: George Z., station agent at Basic City, Va.; Annie R., of Mifflinsburg, Union Co., Pa.; Henrietta, who was burned to death in Altoona, Pa., by the overturning of a lamp; S. K., the subject proper of this sketch; and Lillie M., who died in Altoona.

S. K. Abrahims was born in Altoona in 1866, and attended the public schools there until he had reached his sixteenth year, when he began to learn the pattern maker’s trade with his father, continuing with him from 1882 until 1895, having charge of the department at the last. Failing health obliged him to abandon his work, and in 1895 he located on his father’s farm in South Middleton township, remaining there until 1898, when he moved to his own farm in West Pennsboro township, where he engaged in farming for but one year, his wife’s strength proving too frail for the management of the work that falls to the lot of a farmer’s wife. In 1899 Mr. Abrahims began the coach making business in Plainfield, in which he has been successful. He purchased the old Strohm shops, and about three acres of land, erecting a fine modern residence. He has set out a good orchard of apples, pears, peaches and plums, and altogether has a home well worthy the care he has bestowed upon it. In his extensive shops he builds everything in the coach line, and is kept constantly busy. His workmanship is so thorough, that his trade extends for many miles beyond the bounds that might be expected.

Mr. Abrahims married Miss Ella H. Walker, daughter of Robert and Sarah (Barker) Walker, of Philadelphia. Their children are: Clifford L., who died in Altoona, at the age of fifteen months; Catherine V., attending school in Plainfield; and Inola M., who died in infancy.