Orrin Hallenbeck
1847-

Landmarks of Steuben county, New York, 1896

Hallenbeck, Orrin, was born in the village of Hammondsport; July 13, 1847. Jeremiah Hallenbeck, father of Orrin, was a native of Montgomery county, who came to this town first in 1838, and went into partnership first and later was employed by the day, and then established a shop for himself. He died January 2, 1879, aged sixty-six years. He married Betsey Ann Conklin, a native of this county, who died in 1857. They had three sons: William A., a mechanic of Binghamton; Henry A., a wheelwright of Hammondsport ; and Orrin, who was educated in the common schools, and in his boyhood served an apprenticeship at the carpenter's trade, but was really reared at the forge. April 25, 1873, he established a shop on the main street of this village and a year later moved across the park. In 1878 he bought the old Rosenkrans shop on Mechanic street, where he conducted business for seventeen years. It burned in 1894 and the same year he built the present building where we now find him. Mr. Hallenbeck has been a member of the village board for one term. In 1866 he bought a vineyard of five acres on the west side of the lake. In 1873 he married Emma A. Snow, of Brooklyn, N. Y., by whom he had two sons: Robert, who lives at home: and Edward Leory, a student of Hammondsport Union school.

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