Tipton County IN Archives Biographies.....Roberson, Robert L. 1838 - 
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Author: Charles Blanchard, Editor (1883)

   ROBERT M. ROBERSON was born in Butler County, Ohio, September 25, 1838; he
grew to manhood in the Buckeye State, and on the breaking-out of the late
rebellion enlisted in the United States service in September, 1861, in Company
B, Sixty-ninth Ohio Volunteers, and was assigned to the Fourteenth Army Corps,
Second Division. He participated in the battles of Stone River, Chattanooga,
Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge, and was with Sherman on his famous march to
the sea, going through to Bentonville, N. C. He was mustered out in August,
1865. In 1866, he came to Tipton County and located at Windfall, where he
commenced to work at carpentering, and continued until 1874, when he entered
into the dry goods and grocery business, in which he continued for two years. In
1876, he was elected Sheriff by the Democracy of the county, and immediately
removed to Tipton. He was reelected in 1878, serving altogether two terms, or
four years. After his term of office expired, he engaged in the furniture
business until the fall of 1882, when he sold out and resumed his trade of
carpentering. He is at present engaged in the erection of a fine brick residence
on North Independence street, at a cost of $2,000. Mr. Roberson was married in
January, 1871, in Tipton County, to Miss Mary J. Nay. They have two children,
namely, George and Olive. His father, Daniel S. Roberson, came to Tipton in his
old age, and remained here until his death, which occurred in March, 1877, aged
seventy-three years. Mr. Roberson is a Democrat, and is a member of the Masonic
fraternity.

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COUNTIES OF HOWARD AND TIPTON, INDIANA.

HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL.
ILLUSTRATED.

CHARLES BLANCHARD. EDITOR.
CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO.
1883.


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