Joseph Robertson, M.D.
Joseph Robertson, M.D., who has been successfully engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery at Steubenville, Ohio, for twenty years and is closely identified with its many interests, was born in 1852, on his father's farm, four miles north of this city. His parents were David and Margaret L. (Plummer) Robertson, and his grandfather was Joseph Robertson, who came from Westmoreland County. Pennsylvania. He settled in Jefferson County prior to the War of 1812, in which he took part.
David Robertson, father of Dr. Robertson, was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, in 1825, and engaged in farming all througli life. He married Margaret L. Phunmer, of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and Dr. Robertson was the first born of their five children, the others being Molly, Sally J., Jessie and Annie, the latter of whom is the wife of R. J. Lyle, of Washington County, Pennsylvania. Sally J. is now deceased.
Joseph Robertson attended the local schools and spent one year in Washington and Jefferson College, after which he read medicine with private preceptors and subsequently graduated in medicine and surgery from the Columbus Medical College, in 1881. He located first near the old heme of the grandfathers, in Westmoreland County, later moved to Harrison County, Ohio, and one year afterward returned to Jefferson County. He is a member of the Jefferson County and the Ohio State Medical Societies and of the American Medical Association and keeps thoroughly abreast with the times in all that concerns his science. Dr. Robertson was married in 1884, to Miss Martha B. Smith, who died in 1886. Dr. Robertson is a member of the United Presbyterian church at Steubenville and belongs to the Session.
From 20th Century History of Steubenville and Jefferson County, Ohio, by Joseph B. Doyle. Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, 1910