James S. Robinson
James S. Robinson, farmer, is a son of John P. Robinson, whose father, Thomas, was a native of Ireland, and emigrated to Germany about 1780, where he married our subject's grandmother, Rebecca Coons, and came to the United States in 1797, locating near Zanesville, Ohio, where he remained until 1820, when he removed to Washington, D. C, remaining there until they reared their family of eight children, and then came to Washington C. H. The grandfather died in Ross County, Ohio, and the grandmother in Miami County, Indiana. Our subject's father remained in Washington C. H. several years, when it had but one business house, and this county was almost an unbroken forest. He went to Indiana, and remained several years, then returned to Ohio. Went to Illinois in 1875, where he died, March 2, 1878, aged seventy-eight years.
Our subject was married to Anna C. Smith, daughter of Samuel Smith, of this county, January 6, 1866, who bore him one child, Elda J., and died July 15, 1868. He then married Mary E. Torbitte, of this county, August 8, 1871. He is a member of Jamestown Lodge No. 181, I. O. O. F., and served two years in Company C, 114th O. V. I. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Protestant Church.
From R. S. Dills' History of Fayette County