Wayne County IN Archives Biographies.....Robbins, George W. March 15, 1820 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/in/infiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Glapha Cox rcoxfam@earthlink.net January 25, 2006, 9:52 am Author: History of Wayne County, Indiana;Volume II, (1884) Perry Township p. 711 & 712 George W. Robbins, M. D., was born in Adams County, Ohio, March 15, 1820, son of Philip and Phoebe C. (Caldwell) Robbins, natives of Westmoreland County, Pa., who removed to Ohio in 1815, and in December, 1829, came to Wayne County, Ind. Our subject received but a limited education in his youth, but being ambitious studied at home and obtained some acquirements. In 1841 began the study of medicine in Ohio, finished up his course in Economy, Ind., and commenced practice in 1844, where he has had a lucrative and successful practice ever since. Graduated in the Ohio Medical College in the winter '62 and '63. He was married to Julia W. Forsyth, of Pittsburg, Pa., Oct. 17, 1848, to whom have been born five children, viz.: Sarah J. (deceased), John F., Byram C., Florence May and Hattie V. The subject of this discourse has been studying the parasitic theory of disease for many years, and on this basis got up a remedy in 1879, known as "Robbins's Antiseptic Compound," and after using it without a failure for eighteen months his friends solicited him to place it on the market, so that their distant friends might obtain its benefits, and its use has been fraught with more success, and it has received greater encomiums than any remedy in the same length of time. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/in/wayne/bios/robbins268gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/infiles/ File size: 1.9 Kb