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Author: John C. Odell (1916)

HEZEKIAH ROBISON.

   The gradually decreasing list of Civil War veterans includes the name of
Hezekiah Robison, who served his country well and faithfully, and whose many
experiences in battle would make a story of great interest. Mr. Robison's
soldierly qualities did not cease with the closing of the Civil War, for he
returned home and bravely took up his life work with great energy.

   Hezekiah Robison, farmer, Burrows, Indiana, was born on September 10, 1843,
in Pennsylvania, and is a son of John P. and Sarah (McCrum) Robison. He grew to
manhood on a farm in Rock Creek township, and received a good education at the
public schools.

   When the Civil War broke out, Mr. Robison enlisted in Company A, Forty-sixth
Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, October 5, 1861, with Judge Gould as
captain, later lieutenant-colonel. At the time of his enlistment, his
schoolmate, Alfred H. Hardy, also enlisted, and was killed on July 19, 1863, at
Jackson, Mississippi. Mr. Robison was in the First Brigade, Twelfth Division,
Thirteenth Corps, and participated in the Vicksburg campaign. The services of
his regiment commenced at Cairo, and extended to the Gulf of Mexico, being the
first regiment in the city of Memphis, and taking part in the battle of White
River, under the command of Colonel Fitch, and was present at the fall of
Vicksburg, his services covering from October 5, 1861, to December 1, 1864,
during which time he never received a scratch, and was never home during that
time. Mr. Robison s regiment was engaged in thirty-seven battles in all, and the
remaining members still hold an annual reunion, of which the subject of this
sketch was made permanent secretary in 1905. He is the best informed of any
member in the regiment, having traveled extensively in thirty-seven states of
the Union.

   Mr. Robison has always been a stanch Republican, in the politics of which
party he has been active. Fraternally, he belongs to Samuel H. Stewart Post,
Grand Army of the Republic, of which post he has held the office of commander.
He is a director of the Carroll County Loan and Trust Company at Delphi,
Indiana, and also owns considerable stock in the Farmers and Merchants Bank, at
Logansport, and the State Savings and Trust Company of Indianapolis, Indiana,
and has made all he owns through his own efforts.

   John P. Robison, father of the subject of this sketch, was born in
Pennsylvania, December 13, 1809. His wife, Sarah (McCrum) Robison, was born in
October, 1811, and was a native of the same state, where they grew up and were
united in marriage, coming to Carroll county, October 24, 1846, and driving all
the way by wagon. In the spring of 1847, they settled on a farm in Rock Creek
township, and lived there until their death. John P. Robison was an entergetic
and prosperous man, and a good citizen. His religious membership was with the
Presbyterian church, of which he was an elder. His death occurred on August 22,
1904, his wife having died on July 23, 1868. To this marriage were born ten
children, seven of whom are living in 1915: Margaret, Joseph M., John L.,
Hezekiah, Catherine, William and Sarah. Margaret Robison became the wife of
William W. Whorton, of Logansport, Indiana. Joseph M. Robison is single, and
lives in the West; John L. Robison is a resident of Burbank, California. He went
to the Civil War in Company F, Forty-sixth Indiana, enlisting on October 7,
1861, and serving until December 1, 1864. Catherine Robison is the widow of the
Rev. F. McBurney, of Mexico, Pennsylvania; William Robison lives near South
Bend, Indiana. Sarah Robison is the wife of R. S. Miller, of Logansport.

   Hezekiah Robison was united in marriage on February 18, 1875, with Mary
Martin, daughter of William P. and Martha (Stevens) Martin. She was born on
March 5, 1854, in Carroll county, Indiana, where she attended the public
schools, and where their first housekeeping operations were commenced. This
union has been blest with two children, Nora, who became the wife of John E.
Dixon, and who died, leaving one child, who is now the wife of James L. Sharp,
of Alberta, Canada, and Maud, who was married to Earl Stewart, and is the mother
of four children, Hazel, Everett, Mary and Helen.

   Mr. Robison is the proprietor of "The Maples Farm," consisting of one hundred
and forty acres, situated a quarter of a mile east of Burrows, where he enjoys
the friendship of, not only the immediate township, but of the entire county. He
takes a personal pride in the management of his own farm.


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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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