Biographical Sketch of Benjamin J. Robertson, Greene County, Missouri,
North Springfield

>From "History of Greene County, Missouri," St. Louis: Western
Historical Company, 1883.

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This gentleman was born in Greencastle, Indiana, February 13, 1844.  At
seventeen years of age he joined Company G, 63rd Illinois volunteer in-
fantry, and served one year as second sergeant.  He was then promoted 
to quartermaster sergeant.  In 1863 he was advanced to rank of first
lieutenant and regimental quartermaster, which he held till the close 
of the war.  He served through the siege of Vicksburg, also at Black
River, Champion Hill, Chattanooga, the campaign before Atlanta and 
Sherman's march to the sea.  He returned to Illinois after the war,
and was employed over two years in the office of the Illinois Central
railroad at Tuscola.  Next he was engaged in the American express com-
pany's office at Mattoon.  A year later he began braking on the C. & A.
R.R., and continued nine months, when he was made freight conductor,
and ran a train five months.  The machine shops at Bloomington were his
next field of a labor, where he remained three years.  In September,
1879, he went to Pierce City and began braking on the Kansas division 
of the "Frisco" line.  He was again given charge of a train in May, 
1881, which he has conducted since then.  His removal to North Spring-
field was in 1880, where his family now reside.  Mr. Robertson was 
married March 30th, 1868, to Miss Mattie Blake, of Charleston, Illinois
and has at this writing a family of four children.

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