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HAMILTON R. ROBINSON, deceased, became a resident of Johnson County in March, 1869. He arrived here March 8, and within a week bought a farm of one hundred and thirty-one acres in township 46, range 25. About forty-five acres of the place were under cultivation, and the new owner set to work energetically to make substantial improvements. Many of these, however, he did not live to see carried into effect, as but little more than a year after settling here he was accidentally killed, being struck by the tongue of a wagon in a runaway, July 9, 1870. His eldest son, Everett, a young man of good business ability, has been of great assistance to his mother in running the farm of late years.

The parents of our subject, Joshua and Hannah (Rogers) Robinson, were both natives of Chillicothe, Ohio. The former died at his birthplace, where for years he had been engaged in farming, and his wife departed this life at the old homestead in the spring of 1867. Her parents were likewise natives of the Buckeye State, and until their deaths lived on a farm near Slate Mills, Ross County. The parents of Joshua Robinson were among the very early settlers of Ohio. The grandfather of our subject was killed by the Indians in 1795, in a battle which took place between them and General Nathaniel Massie at Reeves Crossing, on Paint Creek, in Ross County. His widow continued to make her home with her son Joshua until her death.

In a family numbering ten children, Hamilton R. is the seventh in order of birth. James, now deceased, married Catherine McCaulay; William and his wife, Lizzie, are living retired at Red Oak, Iowa; John and his wife, Annie, are residents of Mount Pleasant, Iowa; Phoebe E. married Nathaniel Hillhouse, and since his death has made her home in Warrensburg with her children; Catherine died at the age of two years; Mary Jane married William McLean, a farmer of this county; Hugh K., a soldier of the late war, and a merchant of Mound City, Mo., married Miss Mary Pinto, and after her death wedded Mamie Ford; Henry S., who lives on a farm near Warrensburg, married Clementine Evans; and Erskine died in 1864 while in the war.

Hamilton R. Robinson was born in Ross County, Ohio, August 4, 1830, and grew to manhood on his father’s farm. November 10, 1859, he married Abigail, daughter of Jacob and Susan ( Wentworth ) Grubb, natives of Maine and Ohio, respectively. The mother died September 13, 1864, and Mr. Grubb afterwards married Miss Mary Bradford, of Ross County. By his first union Mr. Grubb had ten children: Daniel, who died September 19, 1878, and whose wife, formerly Jennie Woodland, lives at Kempton, Ind.; Abigail; Henry, who died in Colorado; Andrew, a farmer of Ross County, who married Mary A. Egleson; John (twin brother of Andrew), who died at the age of twenty-seven years; Ursula, wife of Milton Elliott, a farmer of Fayette County, Ohio; David, unmarried, and living in Arizona; Jacob, who married Addie Egleston and resides near Chillicothe, Ohio; Sarah Ann, who married Robert Earl, now a farmer near Centerville, Ill.; and Susan, who lives on the old homestead in Ohio. By the second marriage were born two children, Joseph and Frank, who live with their mother on the farm in Ohio.

After his marriage Mr. Robinson continued to live near Chillicothe, Ohio, until the spring of 1867, when he moved to Fayette County, that state. At the end of two years, as he had saved a little money, and had some relatives living in this county, he concluded to move hither, and accordingly did so. During his short residence in this community he became much respected by all who knew him. During the war, May 2, 1864, he enlisted as Fourth Sergeant of Company E, One Hundred and Forty-ninth Regiment, under Col. Thomas B. Jenkins. He did not take part in any battle, as at the time his company were engaged in their only serious conflict with the enemy he was in the hospital. He was honorably discharged at Camp Dennison in August, 1864, and at once returned home. In politics he was always a Republican.

The eldest child of Hamilton R. Robinson is Everett E., who was born September 7, 1860, and is still unmarried. Emma W., born April 29, 1864, married E. J. Nason, January 22, 1890, and now lives in Washington County, Kan., on a farm. Hattie S., born February 24, 1866, is cashier for the dry-goods house of Shepard & Co., of Warrensburg. Nettie H., born November 13, 1869, is a well known school teacher of this county. They have all been given good educations and are enterprising and practical young people.