Illinois:  History of Cass County, Illinois, ed. William 
Henry Perrin. O. L. Baskin & Co. Historical Publishers, 
Chicago, 1882. Cass County.

ALEXANDER ROBISON, blacksmith, Newmansville; was born in 
Hamilton Co. Ohio, June 25, 1838, son of Cuthbert and Jane 
Ann (Bawser) Robison. Cuthbert Robison, subject's father, 
was born in Hamilton Co., Ohio, Aug. 20, 1808; was a 
blacksmith by trade, came to this county in the fall of 
1856, and died in Virginia, this county, July 6,
1864. His wife, a native of Pennsylvania, died Nov. 5, 
1858. Our subject, the second child of a family of nine, 
received his education at Mount Pleasant, Ohio, and came 
with his parents to this county in 1856; worked on the farm 
two years, and in 1858 was apprenticed to the blacksmith's 
trade in Virginia, this county. In August 1866, he came to 
Newmansville, where he started a blacksmith's shop on his 
own account and has since been engaged in that business, 
doing a good trade. He married in this county, Sept. 29, 
1860, Martha J. Joyce, born in Butler County, O., March 22, 
1840, daughter of James and Elizabeth (Hughes) Joyce, 
natives of Ohio, both deceased. From this union they have 
had three children, viz: James W., Josephine, and Jessie A. 
Mr. Robinson is Postmaster at Newmansville; has held that 
position ten years; has been Township Trustee eleven years, 
and has served the county as Magistrate about eighteen 
years. He is an adherent of the Democratic party.

Robison Bawser Joyce 
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Hamilton-OH PA Butler-OH