TRUMBULL COUNTY OHIO - BIO: Robison, Hon. Warren J.,(pub. 1925)
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Subj: [OHTRUMBU] Bacon, Volume IV, History of Ohio, 1925
Date: 8/30/2001 10:28:24 AM Eastern Daylight Time
From:    margstri@bmi.net (Margaret Strickland)
To:    OHTRUMBU-L@rootsweb.com



For Gayle in Cincinnati:

William Bacon - page 28, Vol. IV - Bio of Hon. Warren J. Robison

Hon. Warren J. Robison represents some of the old pioneer stock of Portage
County, and his career as a member of the Legislature and present mayor of
Ravenna has gained for him a position of very favorable esteem.  His only
son, Henry J. Robison, is the present judge of the Probate Court of Portage
County.

Warren J. Robison was born in Palmyra Township of Portage County, October
31, 1871, son of John and Ellen (Corbett) Robison, his mother also a native
of Palmyra Township, while his father was born in Mahoning County.  The
paternal grandparents were Edward and Arminda (Cole) Robison natives of
Connecticut.  The maternal grandfather, Leonard Corbett, came to Portage
County from the New England States about 1801 and settled in Palmyra
Township.  William Bacon, a great-grandfather of Warren J. Robison in the
maternal line arrived in Palmyra Township in the year 1800.  John Robison
after his marriage settled on a farm in Palmyra Township, and in addition to
farming was associated with his brothers in the stone contracting businss.
For the last three years of his life he was supervisor of building during
the construction of the Mahoning County Courthouse.

Warren J. Robison spent his boyhood days at the old homestead, attended the
schools in Mount Union, and had one term in Wooster University.  At the age
of seventeen he began teaching.  He taught for several years in district
schools and for three years was superintendent of the public schools at
Mantua.  Mr. Robison was appointed county recorder, February 4, 1915, to
fill out the unexpired term caused by the resignation of Andrew Austin.  He
moved to Ravenna to serve in this capacity for severl months.  For a number
of years he has been in the insurance business as general agent for the
Midland Mutual Life Insurance Company of Columbus.

Mr. Robison was a member of the Eighty-second Session of the Ohio State
Legislature in 1917-18.  In 1921 he was elected mayor of Ravenna, and began
his term of office January 1, 1922.  He is a member of the Ravenna Grange,
has filled the chairs in the Knights of Pythias Lodge, also belongs to the
Masons, and Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and is a democrat in
politics.  He is clerk of the board of trustees of the Congregational
Church.

On October 1892, Warren J. Robison married Della Davis, who was born in
Palmyra Township, a daughter of Henry and Margaret (Williams) davis, natives
of the same township, while her great-grandparents, David and Jane (Jones)
Davis were natives of Wales.

Henry John Robison, only son of Warren J. Robison and wife, was born in
Palmyra Township, September 27, 1894.  He graduated from the Mantua High
School in 1914 and continued his education in the State Normal College at
Kent.  He holds elementary and high school certificates as a teacher, and in
1918 was graduated Bachelor of Science in education.  During the war period
he was employed in the cost department of the Engel Air Craft Company, and
on March 1, 1919, became deputy clerk of the Probate Court.  He performed
the duties of that office until April 1, 1923, when Governor Donahey
appointed him probate judge, and he has given a very excellent account of
himself in that important responsibility, being one of the youngest probate
judges in the state.

On September 15, 1923, Judge Robison married Miss Vernon A. White, a native
of Cleveland, Ohio, and daughter of Sherman & Catherine (Williams) White.
Judge and Mrs. Robision are members of the First Congregation Church.  He is
a democrat, a Mason, past chancellor of the Knights of Phthias and deputy
grand chancellor of Portage County during the time of D. Henry Sell.  He
also belongs to Lodge No. 1076, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and
the Chamber of Commerce of Ravenna.

Margaret Strickland
Walla Walla, WA


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