... Mr. Robison came from Franklin county, Pennsylvania.
His father, Andrew Robison. Jr., located in Fugit township in 1821. He was then twenty-one years old, and a tanner by trade. He opened up a tan-yard one and a half miles south of Clarksburg, on a farm now owned by Everett Hamilton. He operated the tan-yard about two years. In 1824 he married Miss Mary Donnell, a daughter of Squire Samuel Donnell, and soon afterwards bought a farm of one hundred and sixty acres, then in the woods, near the present site of Kingston. This farm was the home place, and it is still owned by J. B. Robison. He afterwards bought one hundred and twenty acres in the neighborhood, making two hundred and eighty acres, which he owned at the time of his death, which occurred July 23, 1852, from an attack of pneumonia. The mother, Mary Donnell, was born July 5, 1803. She died in this city in 1890, at the advanced age of eighty-seven. She had for some time made her home with her daughter, Mrs. Austin McCoy. The family of Andrew and Mary Robison consisted of four children, two of whom died in early years. The two who lived to maturity and still survive, are
- James Buchannan Robison, the subject of this article, and
- Elizabeth Hanna, who married Joseph Austin McCoy. Mr. McCoy was a well known famrer and local politician. He died in this city in 1892. His widow lives in St. Louis, Missouri, with her daughter, Mrs. Cole, whose husband is a ticket agent for the Big Four railroad at that place. ...
