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John Robinson
who passed away in 1908, at the venerable age of eighty three
years, had been a resident of Delaware county for more than a
half century and was well known and highly esteemed as one of its
honored pioneer agriculturists. He was born in Ireland, in 1825,
and emigrated to the United States in the early '50s. On the 16th
of March, 1854, at Allegheny, Pennsylvania, he wedded Miss
Marguerite Swindell, also a native of the Emerald isle. On the
12th of April following they arrived in Delaware county, Iowa,
and settled on a farm of one hundred and sixty acres on section
5, Adams township: Mr. Robinson devoted his attention to general
agricultural pursuits until his retirement many years later, his
undertakings being attended with a gratifying measure of success.
His demise occurred in 1908 and his remains were interred at
Silver Creek, the community thus losing one of its best known and
most respected citizens. He held the office of justice of the
peace for about forty years and made a highly creditable and
commendable record in that connection.
To Mr. and Mrs. Robinson were born six
children, only one of whom survives, Anthony. Mrs. Robinson is
yet living at the advanced age of ninety five years and enjoys a
very extensive and favorable acquaintance throughout the
community in which she has now resided for six decades. She makes
her home with a niece, Miss Sarah Robinson, who was born in
Ireland and emigrated to the United States in 1905, taking up her
abode in this county. Her parents, Anthony and Eliza (Couter)
Robinson, of Ireland, died when ninety four and fifty four years
of age respectively. They had seven children, three of whom
survive, as follows: Sarah; Mary E., residing in Prairie
township, who is the wife of Thomas W. Roberts and the mother of
six children; and Martha J., who gave her hand in marriage to
William G. Burnside, of Ireland. |
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