Obituary: Rock County, Wisconsin: Stephen Eddy ROBINSON ************************************************************************ Submitted by Ruth Ann Montgomery, May 2005 © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************ On Friday last, after a long and painful struggle, the mortality of Dr. S. E. Robinson terminated. The end had been anticipated from the date of his return from Phoenix, Arizona, the best physicians pronounced his case tuberculosis, and from the magnificent, stalwart form of a few months ago he had wasted to the merest shadow. To most of our readers Dr. Robinson was known as one of the foremost of his profession in this part of Iowa. To the hundreds of households where he has been the family physician, as in that of the writer, his declining health has been a matter of sorrow and his death like a cup overflowing with sorrow. The funeral Monday was held under direction of Langridge Commandry K. T., which with the Blue Lodge of Masons and Abernethy Post G. A. R., attended in a body, making with the solemn music of high school band, the most imposing obsequies ever held here. The West Union Gazette, June 12. Stephen Eddy, son of Thomas and Anna Robinson, was born in Clinton, Ind., May 7, 1838 and died at West Union, Iowa, June 5, 1903. In 1845 came with his parents to Evansville. Attended school at Lawrence University and Evansville Seminary. At the age of 20 entered Rush Medical College and in 1860 began the practice of medicine at West Union. In 1861 enlisted in Co. F. 3rd Regt. Iowa Inf., he was chosen sergeant but was soon detailed to hospital duty and given commission as assistant surgeon, retiring in 1863. In 1867 he married Sarah Elizabeth Artman; besides his wife he leaves one daughter, Anna Ridgway of New York, two sons, Reuben and Richard; and two sisters Belle Burgess of Godell, Iowa, and Henrietta Quivey of Boise, Id. June 20, 1903, Badger, p. 5, col. 2, Evansville, Wisconsin [note: the West Union Gazette obit was reprinted in the June 20, 1903 Badger.]