“His father was of scottish descent and fought in the war of 1812.”
Stephen moved to Pulaski, Michigan in the spring of 1844.

"Stephen Hamblin, was born in Madison County, N.Y.,
of which his father, who was of Scottish descent, was an early pioneer.
The latter was a soldier in the War of 1812, and was present in the battle
of Sackett's Harbor. He was a farmer in New York for many years, but
finally sold his property and retired to private life, spending his last
years with his son near Joliet, Ill. Stephen Hamblin was reared in his
native county, and in the spring of 1844 came from there to Michigan,
driving with a team the entire distance. He located in Pulaski Township
among its pioneers, and buying forty acres of land on section 16, twelve
acres of which were cleared, immediately set to work to improve a farm. So
successful was he that at the time of his death he was the possessor of one
hundred and forty acres of choice farming land, having been enabled by
shrewd management to increase his original purchase. He died in 1881 in his
seventieth year. The maiden name of the mother of our subject was Phebe
Wilber, and she was born in Madison County, N. Y., a daughter of Samuel
Wilber, a pioneer of that county. She had been married previous to her
union to Mr. Hamblin, her first husband having been Whiting Hawes. She had
one child by that marriage, Jane, now Mrs. Jacobs, of Pulaski. The mother
died in July, 1888 at the advanced age of seventy-eight years. She was a
good woman, and a consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. By
her second marriage she had eight children, as follows: Cornelia, Mrs.
Clark, of Pulaski; Ward P., of Allen, Hillsdale County; Mary, Mrs. Baker,
of Scipio; Orville, of Concord; O. E.; William, of Pulaski; Stephen W.,
dead; Phoebe [yes, that's how they spelled it!], Mrs. Pickett, of Bay City.
Ward and Orville were members of the Second Michigan Cavalry, enlisting in
1863 and serving till the war closed."17