Lake-Elkhart County IN Archives Biographies.....Robinson, Clifford C. 1874 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/in/infiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com January 3, 2007, 10:28 pm Author: T. H. Ball (1904) CLIFFORD C. ROBINSON, M. D. One of the younger representatives of the medical profession in northwestern Indiana is Dr. Clifford Clarence Robinson, who since 1902 has engaged in practice at Indiana Harbar, [sic] bringing to his work accurate and comprehensive knowledge of the most modern ideas, discoveries and methods used by the members of the medical fraternity. He is a native son of Indiana, his birth having occurred in Elkhart, on the 27th of August, 1874. His paternal grandfather, Squire Robinson, M. D., was a native of the state of New York and in early life was a minister of the Dunkard church, but later he took up the study of medicine and began practice when thirty-six years of age. At the time of the Civil war he served in the Union army as a surgeon, thus rendering valuable aid to the boys in blue. He became a resident of Indiana at an early period in the settlement and improvement of the state, and afterward removed to Michigan, locating at Benton Harbor, where he died at an advanced age. He married a Miss Clem and they reared a large family. This number included Dr. Clarence S. Robinson, who was born in Indiana and is now a practicing physician and surgeon of Dowagiac, Michigan, where he has lived for the past ten years, enjoying a liberal patronage. He married Miss Agnes Clark, also a native of Indiana. Her father, who was a native of the state of New York and was a farmer by occupation, enlisted for service in the Civil war, as a member of the Union army, and was killed in battle. His wife bore the maiden name of Julia Fuller and they had a numerous family. Their daughter, Mrs. Robinson, passed away in 1897, when thirty-seven years of age. She held membership in the Baptist church, to which Dr. Clarence S. Robinson also belongs. Their children were two in number, but one died in infancy. Dr. Clifford Clarence Robinson, of Indiana Harbor, the third generation of the family to engage in the practice of medicine, was reared in the vicinity of Dowagiac, Michigan, and attended the public schools there, being graduated from the high school with the class of 1896. He then took up the study of medicine in the medical department of the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, and on the completion of the full course was graduated in the class of 1902 and entered upon the practice of his chosen profession in Indiana Harbor, in August of that year. Already he has gained a good patronage and has demonstrated his ability to successfully cope with the intricate problems which continually confront the physician. He is a member of the Lake County Medical Society. On the 1st day of July, 1903, Dr. Robinson was united in marriage to Miss Belle Corless, a daughter of Hiram and Martha Corless, and during their residence in Indiana Harbor they have won the favorable regard and friendship of many. In politics he is a Republican, and in citizenship is public-spirited and progressive. Additional Comments: Extracted from: ENCYCLOPEDIA OF Genealogy and Biography OF LAKE COUNTY, INDIANA, WITH A COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY 1834—1904 A Record of the Achievements of Its People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Founding of a Nation. REV. T. H. BALL OF CROWN POINT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ILLUSTRATED CHICAGO NEW YORK THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY 1904 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/in/lake/bios/robinson656gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/infiles/ File size: 3.9 Kb