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Author: John C. Odell (1916)

MAHLON D. ROBESON.

   Mahlon D. Robeson, retired farmer, Deer Creek, Indiana, was born on August
31, 1843, at Lafayette, Indiana, and is a son of Andrew and Nancy (Stambaugh)
Robeson. He grew up on the farm and attended the district schools of Jackson
township, attending only during the winter months, as his services were needed
at home during the summer seasons. During the Civil War he enlisted in Company
D, One Hundred and Fifty-fourth Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and served
until the end of the war. At the close of the war he returned to Jackson
township, this county, and resumed his agricultural vocation. He now owns two
hundred and twelve acres of splendid farm land in Washington township and five
acres in Deer Creek, Indiana. Mr. Robeson has always been a stanch supporter of
Republican principles and has been active in local politics, holding a
membership on the Washington township advisory board. Both Mr. Robeson and his
wife are members of the Lutheran church, of which he is one of the trustees. His
fraternal alliance is with Mt. Zion Lodge No. 211, Free and Accepted Masons.

   Andrew Robeson, father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Blair
county, Pennsylvania, as was also his wife, Nancy (Stambaugh) Robeson. They were
married in their native state and came to Indiana in 1835, locating near Dayton,
Indiana, where Mr. Robeson was employed in a woolen-factory for a number of
years, at the end of which time he rented a factory building near Camden,
Indiana, and conducted a factory of his own, which he afterward sold out and
moved to a farm in Jackson township, where he died. In politics, Mr. Robeson was
a Republican, always taking an active interest in local politics, and served as
trustee of his township for two terms. His religious views were with the
Evangelical Lutheran church. To Mr. and Mrs. Robeson were born eight children,
only three of whom are living in 1915, Mahlon D., Pharis, a retired farmer,
residing at Camden, and Plato, also a retired farmer of Camden.

   Mahlon D. Robeson was united in marriage on September 13, 1866, with Minerva
Edschker, daughter of William and Matilda Edschker. She was born in Carroll
county, Indiana, and was educated at the district schools. This union has been
blest with five children, only three of whom are living in 1915: Alice, who was
graduated from the public schools, and became the wife of John P. Hinkle, of
Washington township; Alfaretta, graduated from the public schools, and became
the wife of Charles E. Rice, of Washington township, and Leroy, who also
graduated from the public schools, and was later united in marriage with Anna
Downham, and lives in Washington township. Wade died aged ten years, and William
A. died, aged thirty years.

   Mr. Robeson is very modest and retiring in his manner, and because of his
genuine worth is held in high esteem in his community.


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Biographical Section of

HISTORY OF CARROLL COUNTY INDIANA

ITS PEOPLE, INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS
BY
JOHN C ODELL
With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and
Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families

ILLUSTRATED
1916
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc.
Indianapolis, Indiana


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