Carroll-Tippecanoe County IN Archives Biographies.....Robinson, Henry 1778 - 1845
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Author: John C. Odell (1916)

HENRY ROBINSON.

   Henry Robinson was born in Pennsylvania in the year 1778, from which place he
removed to Kentucky and later, in 1806, located in Miami county, Ohio. The most
prominent personage of the early settlers was the subject of this sketch. More
has been said and written of him than any other. He was a remarkable man,
possessing characteristics which marked him as a leader of men, sagacious,
energetic and honest. He emigrated from Ohio to the Wabash valley in the fall of
1824. He, with the members of his family and several others, traversed the
country in a log wagon, drawn by cattle and halted in the vicinity where the
city of Lafayette now is. His son, Hezekiah, located near Crawfordsville. He,
with his sons, Abner and Coleman, followed the Indian trail up the Wabash to
this territory (now Carroll county) looking for land.

   Mr. Robinson purchased the east half of the southeast quarter of section 20,
township 25 north, range 2 west, on the 21st of December, 1824. On December 31,
1824, he, with his sons' families, arrived on the land and went into camp. On
the next day (January 1, 1825) the work of cutting logs and erecting their cabin
commenced. The 2nd of January was Sunday and they rested from their labors. In a
few days the cabin was up and was presided over by the wife of Abner Robinson
and his sister, Sarah, the first white woman who settled in the county. Mr.
Robinson decided to erect a saw-mill, and built a rude affair at the point later
occupied by Bowen's mill, east of Delphi. He also cracked corn on a pair of
mill-stones for the settlers.

   These people lived on scant food, being for some days without bread. The
flour mostly was brought from Ohio. By the first of January, 1827, the county
was being rapidly settled, houses erected and stores established. This territory
was organized into a county in 1828, the county seat located, a court,
postoffice and several churches established and county officers elected.

   The year 1830 was dry and sickly, the amount of sickness giving Delphi a bade
[sic] name—and being a drawback for many years. Mr. Robinson, not counting
obstacles, got some of his machinery from Ohio, and by his great energy
accomplished what no other man was willing to undertake. He departed this life
in July, 1845.


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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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