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Samuel Hain
Rock Flat 1852
SAMUEL HAIN was born at Somerset, England, on the 14th September, 1834. He arrived' in Sydney with his parents at the age of 16, and accompanied them to Goulburn. When they moved on to Rock Flat some two years later he went with them, and was engaged in shepherding for a period of about two years. He came to Cooma with his father, James Hain, when the latter built and conducted the Lord Raglan Hotel; in 1855. In 1860 he removed with his father to the Royal Hotel, his father opening a store, which was carried on under the name of Hain & Son. After his father's death he carried on the business under the name of S. Hain for a considerable number of years. In 1889 he met with a buggy accident consequent upon a horse bolting, and was never in good health after. He died on the 18th May, 1890, leaving a wife, four sons, and four daughters. The business is carried' on today by two of his sons, Albert and George, under the name of Hain & Co. The other two sons, Thomas and Edward, followed grazing pursuits.
"BACK TO COOMA" Felix Mitchell 1926 Page 78 - Transcribed by Pattrick Mould 2003
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