Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Robb, A J 1825 - 
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Author: History Grundy County 1882

A. J. Robb, farmer, P. O. Mazon. The subject of this sketch is a native of 
Brown County, Ohio, born October 10, 1825, son of James and Rosana Robb, who 
settled in Wauponsee Township, in 1834, being among the first dozen families 
in the county. Subject was then nine years of age, and for many years had no 
school privileges. The father had a family of six children, of whom A. J. was 
the oldest; sometimes employed a teacher to come to his house to teach his 
children. James Robb, subject's father, died in Wauponsee Township in 1855; 
his wife still living at Marseilles, Ill., in her seventy-sixth year. Mr. Robb 
was married, October 18, 1846, to Miss Betsey Hulse, daughter of Henry Hulse. 
She was a native of Trumbull County, Ohio, born in 1815 and died at their home 
in Mazon Township January 10, 1880. Mr. Robb has a family of four children - 
Emery and Emeline, born August 21, 1848; Emery was married in November, 1878, 
to Miss Sadie Pummell, of Grundy County; Henry W., born February 13, 1850, 
died December 14, 1850; Wesley W., born February 13, 1857, married February 
16, 1879, to Miss Dora Clow, of Grundy County. Subject has a farm of eighty 
acres of improved land in Section 3, of Mazon Township, two and one-half miles 
north from Mazon and six and one-half miles south from Morris. Engaged in 
general husbandry. There is but one other settler now living who has been in 
the county as long as Mr. ROBB; that one is Mr. L. W. Claypool, who came here 
at the same time.

Additional Comments:
Source: History of Grundy County, Illinois. (1882) Chicago: O.L. Baskin & Co. 
Historical Publishers.

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