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History of Marion County, Iowa R The following bios have been submitted by Dee Judge-Susi unless otherwise specified. Attorney. Was born in Guernsey County, Ohio. February 3 1843, and raised in this and the adjoining county. His youth was occupied in acquiring an education, and for some years was engaged in teaching. He enlisted in the late war, first for three months, in the Eighty-sixth Ohio infantry, and afterward re-enlisted in the one Hundred and Twenty-ninth infantry, and was discharged to accept a commission as second lieutenant in the one hundred and thirty-sixth Illinois. After his return from the army he went to Illinois and taught school. In 1869 he came to this county, and in 1873 was elected county auditor, and in 1875 was re elected his own successor, and again in 1877. Having made choice of the practice of law as a profession, he read with Stone & Ayres, with whom he is now associated, and was admitted to the bar in 1879. He married Miss Helen Mathews in 1874; she was born in Coshocton county Ohio. They have one daughter: Gertie. Farmer and stock raiser, Sec. 18, P. O. Knoxville. Was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, January 7 1816, and is the son of Henry and Jane (nee McFerne). The family removed to Guernsey county Ohio, when John was in his third year, where he was raised to manhood and educated. At the age of fourteen years he apprenticed himself to the blacksmith trade in Washington, Pennsylvania, where he resided five years, when he removed to Coshocton county Ohio where he resided twenty years. For a time he followed blacksmithing, and hotel keeping, and for three years was superintendent of the county house; also for a time engaged in the grocery trade. For four years he was engaged in the Candle Coal Oil Works near Coshocton, but as soon as the oil wells were discovered, it broke up this branch of industry, and as a result Mr. R. suffered considerable of a loss. At the outbreak of the war he took an active part in raising a company in his county, but when complete, on account of disability, he was unable to go in the service. In 1863 he came to Marion County and engaged in farming in Knoxville Township. In 1866 he took charge of the county house and farm, and superintended the same for two years. In 1870 he again became its manager, in which capacity he acted the latter time, four years. Since 1874 he has been engaged in farming and stock raising. He has also attained some celebrity as an auctioneer, and in this line does considerable business. He was married August 18 1840, to Miss Jennette Miller of Ohio. They have a family of seven children living; James M., Nancy B. (now Mrs. Gasson), Elizabeth (now Mrs. Kerr), Cynthia A., John S., William O., Charles M. The Robinsons may not be long lived but they make it up in stature, him and sons being the tallest family of men in the county. His estate consists of 202 acres, seventy of which are rich in coal, the vein averaging four and a half feet. He keeps fine Norman horses, and is numbered among the horse fanciers of the township. Himself and wife are closely identified with the Presbyterian Church. Farmer and stock-raiser,
Sec. 17, P.O. Lucas Grove. Was born June 2, 1834, in Greene county,
Pennsylvania. He spent his boyhood days on a farm with his parents.
Came to Marion County in the spring of 1869. He owns a farm of forty
acres. Was married November 15, 1858, to Miss Elizabeth McClure, of
Greene County, Pennsylvania. By this union have six children living:
Buena Vista (born August 17, 1859), S.J. (born June 22, 1862), and Josephine
E. (born March 1, 1866), Chas. D. (Born may 31, 1872), Samuel E. (born
May 17, 1876). Have lost two: Oliver P. and Mary E. |