Robinson, Col. James Cameron {remains back to Ohio}

ROBINSON

Posted By: Deborah Brownfield - Stanley (email)
Date: 1/17/2005 at 00:13:14

Fairfield Tribune
Wed. July 28, 1909
Page 1

SEEK COL. ROBINSON’S BODY. Nephew of Centenarian Traced Him Here—Will Take Remains to Ohio. SAMUEL ROBERTSON, of North Charlestown, Ohio, arrived in this city last Friday and made arrangements for the removal of the body of COL. J. C. ROBINSON from the cemetery in this city to Ohio, where it will be laid in the family plot. COL. ROBINSON died in this city in 1896, aged 105 years, a county charge, and was buried in the in the county plot. Through the efforts of City Clerk WILLIAM LONG a neat stone was erected over the grave, giving the dates of birth and death, and his last resting place has been pointed out to hundreds of people as containing the remains of a centenarian. It appears that COL. ROBINSON was lost track of by the remainder of the family many years ago and drifted into Missouri and from there to Iowa. For many years he was agent for the North American Fur Company and as such was acquainted with such men as DANIEL WEBSTER, JOHN C. CALHOUN, and others of national prominence in that period. These men he met in his trips to Washington to secure necessary papers for carrying on the business of his company.

At the outbreak of the Civil War, COL. ROBINSON was located at Dubuque and at that time was a man of affluence. He is said to have fitted out a company of soldiers with his own money and taken them to the front. He was a man of much intelligence in his day, and would have remained in good circumstances, without a doubt, had it not been for an injury received on his head, which decreased his capabilities.

At one time he secured title to 20,000 acres of land in Nebraska, and it is believed there is a chance of relatives now getting this if the facts can be established. MR. ROBINSON, who traced him to this city, is looking the matter up…While here he looked up the account of the death in the files of The Tribune and took a copy of the announcement with him. Arrangements were also made with the F. D. KERRICK & Company undertaking establishment to look after the matter of disinterring the body and forwarding the remains to Ohio, as soon as word in received from the other Ohio relatives of COLONEL ROBINSON.