Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed., 1886. Warren County. ALBERT COLBURN, founder and machinist, was born in Massachusetts in 1846, is a son of Calvin and Caroline Colburn, and is of English lineage. The father of Mr. Colburn was born in New Hampshire, and his mother in Massachusetts, where she died in 1854. The boyhood of Albert Colburn was spent on the farm. In 1862 he enlisted in Company A, Fifty- first Massachusetts Volunteers and served one year. In 1864 he began learning the machinist's trade, serving an apprentice of two years; in 1869 made the move to Bowling Green and for fifteen years was in the employ of the Louisville & Nashville Railway at this place; in 1884 he began his present business in partnership with Mr. Brown, of this city. The marriage of Mr. Colburn occurred in 1868, with Margaret Gallino, a native of Ohio. To this union was born one child, viz.: Albert. Mr. Colburn died in 1883. Mr. Colburn is a Republican and is a member of the I. O. O. F. He is a highly respected citizen. Colburn Brown Gallino = MA NH OH http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/warren/colburn.a.txt