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					CALEB H. ROBB.

CALEB H. ROBB was born in Jackson, Ohio, on the 18th of February, 1851.  He is the son of Andrew 
and Jane (Lockhart) Robb.  His father was a native of Ohio and his mother of Pennsylvania.  He 
has a brother Joseph residing at Mancelona, Antrim County, Mich., and a sister, Mrs. Carr, at 
Grand Rapids.  Andrew Robb moved to Hillsdale County, Mich., and began farming there when this 
son was only six years old.  For nine years this was his home.  He attended school only about a 
year, and is entirely a self-educated man, having been a close student from his early boyhood, 
and having improved every opportunity which came to him.  At the age of fifteen years he moved 
to Stanton, Mich., and began lumbering, milling and shingle-making.  He remained there about two 
years.
	The next home of our subject was Amadon, Fair Plains Township, where he lived for one 
year, when he came to Sidney Township, Montcalm County, and made it his permanent home.  From 
that time on farming and lumbering have engaged his full attention.  He has a fine farm of 
eighty acres which he cleared and improved himself.  His mother died on his place here three 
years ago, leaving him very much alone as he had never married.  In politics he is a Democrat, 
although he cares nothing for office himself, but he has been made Assessor and has done the 
work of that office four years.  He takes a very active interest in everything that pertains to 
education.
	The family have experienced some severe afflictions:  one brother, Alexander, having 
died at Flint, Mich., just as he was going into active service into the army; another brother 
was taken prisoner in the war, and confined in Andersonville for eight months in 1864.  He was 
reduce in weight from one hundred and eight pounds to fifty-six pounds, being almost starved to 
death.  Mr. Robb himself passed through severe experiences during the hard times here in 1864 to 
1866.  He had no way to make money except by shaving shingles at a very low price and the cost 
of all provisions was exorbitant.  Meat could be procured at no lower price than twenty-five 
cents per pound; sugar was twenty cents and flour $8 to $10 per hundred weight.


This biography is taken from "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL ALBUM OF IONIA AND MONTCALM COUNTIES, 
MICHIGAN."  Chapman Brothers.  Chicago, Illinois.  1891.  Pages 381-382.