Carroll County IN Archives Biographies.....Robinson, Abner 1801 - 1879
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Author: John C. Odell (1916)

ABNER ROBINSON.

   Abner Robinson was born in Kentucky, August 1, 1801, and with his father's
family came to this county, December 31, 1824, locating on land entered by Henry
Robinson, one mile southeast of Delphi, on the south side of Deer creek. He was
married to Sarah Barnes in Montgomery county, Ohio, January 18, 1824. Henry
Robinson and his wife, Abner Robinson and his wife, two unmarried brothers and
one sister, composed the first white people who started the settlement here
which grew to large proportions in later years.

   Abner Robinson was a mechanic and in 1833 started the building of a mill
which was in operation in 1835, of which he was the foreman until 1840. He
shipped flour to New Orleans by the Wabash river in 1832 and made the second
trip in 1845. His father died in 1845. In 1848 he bought a small tract of land
on the west side of the Wabash, about five miles east arid north of Delphi,
where he lived until his death, which occurred in March, 1879. Mr. Robinson was
one of the first members of the organization of the Presbyterian church. He was,
from June 9, 1855, the president of the Old Settler's Society until his death.
All the members of the Robinson family have long since died.


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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

CHAPTER IX.
BRIEF BIOGRAPHIES OF DECEASED PIONEERS OF CARROLL COUNTY.


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