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EARLY SETTLERS OF SANGAMON COUNTY - 1876
By John Carroll Power

These biographies were submitted by a researcher and evidently abstracted from the 1876 History of Sangamon County, IL. Errors could occur, so one should always verify the correctness by obtaining copies of vitals and performing all necessary research to document what is contained herein.



ROBINSON, MRS. MARY, whose maiden name was Mayhew, was born Sept. 9, 1786, at Martha's Vineyard, Mass. Zenas Robinson was born Aug. 1, 1782, in Falmouth, Mass. They were married Sept. 14, 1814, at Cincinnati, O., and had one child there. Mr. Robinson took his family to Big Bone Lick, Boone county, Ky., where he was fulfilling a building contract, and one child was born there. They returned to Hamilton county, O., and had one child near Carthage. Mr. Robinson moved in 1825 to Grand Gulf, Miss., and died there Nov. 8, 1828 or '9. His widow and children returned to Cincinnati to her parents. She remained there until 1836, when she removed, in company with her daughter and son in-law, to Sangamon county, eight miles west of Springfield. Of the three children--

BENJAMIN S., born July 24, 1815, in Cincinnati, O. He studied medicine and attended lectures at the Medical College of Ohio, session of 1839 and '40, and came to Sangamon county, arriving Nov. 3, 1840, at the house of his mother and sister on Spring creek, having taken his last cigar and last glass of intoxicating drink that day in Springfield. Dr. Robinson was married May 20, 1846, to Sophronia Earnest. They had six living children. HELEN F., born March 23, 1849, married September 26, 1872, to Alexander L. Patteson. They have one child, HELEN A., and live two miles southwest of Curran, Sangamon county, Ill. LOUISA, born Sept. 7, 1852, MARY ALLETTA, born April 17, 1854, A. MAYHEW, born June 28, 1856, LIZZIE E., born May 9, 1858, and FREDERICK A., born Jan. 5, 1867. The five latter reside with their parents, two and a quarter miles northeast of Curran, Sangamon county, Ill.

Dr. B. S. Robinson commenced practice in 1841, within two miles of where he now resides. He is now (Nov. 22, 1873,) the oldest practitioner in Sangamon county.

CHRISTIANA M., born in 1818, in Boone county, Ky., married J. Munson Beach. See his name.

CHARLES W., born in 1821, died, aged eleven years.

Mrs. Mary Robinson was married in 1852 to Joshua Brown. See his name. She died May 29, 1861, in Sangamon county, Ill.



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