BIO: Elliott ROBLEY, Huntingdon County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley: 
Comprising the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata and Perry, 
Pennsylvania, Containing Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens and Many of the Early Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. 
Runk & Co., 1897, page 317.
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  ELLIOTT ROBLEY, farmer, Mapleton, Huntingdon county, Pa., was born in 
Newark, N.J., May 17, 1820, at eleven A.M. He was a son of Matthew and 
Hannah (Smith) Robley. Matthew Robley was born in 1794, and was a 
brickmaker. Mrs. Robley was a native of New Jersey, born August 4, 
1800. Their children were: Mary (Mrs. Robert Parker), deceased; 
Elliott; Angeline, died in the west; Henry, was married to a lady from 
the west, died in 1894; Jane, resides in Blair county; John, married in 
the west, resides in Kansas. Mrs. Hannah Robley died December 9, 1835, 
at the age of thirty-five. Mr. Robley was again married to Martha A. 
Brown, born August 9, 1813, in Centre county, Pa. The children of this 
marriage are: Arminda, died in infancy; Hannah C. (Mrs. Martin Miller), 
now a resident of Texas; Eunice, deceased; Albert, deceased; Walter, 
deceased; Matthew, deceased; William, living in the west; Laura, 
deceased; Richard, deceased, in Altoona.
  Elliott Robley attended the common schools of Spruce Creek, in 
Franklin township, Huntingdon county. He went into business first as a 
brickmaker, afterwards as a farmer. In 1857 he engaged in the real 
estate business at Rocky Ridge, of which place he was a pioneer 
settler. He continued in the same occupation for twenty-one years. 
During the war of the Rebellion Mr. Robley enlisted in Company L, 
Nineteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry, Capt. Norman T. Smith, and served 
thirteen months. Re-enlisting after his discharge he served eleven 
months more in the same company. His father was of the Whig party. 
Elliott Robley is a Republican; has served as school director.
  The marriage of Elliott Robley to Hannah Susan, daughter of Samuel 
and Hannah (Sandelman) Clemens, took place August 17, 1840. The lady 
was born in Mifflin county, and is a year younger than Mr. Robley. 
Their children are: Hannah; Mary; John; Rebecca; Marian; Ella; Samuel; 
two that died in infancy; Harry; Elliott; Walter; of this family only 
one girl is at home. Mr. Robley is the grandfather of sixty-one 
children, and the great grandfather of fifteen. He has been a life-long 
member of the church of the United Brethren in Christ, having joined 
that church fifty-one years ago.