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         WILFORD ROBISON, residing on section 18, Port Louisa Township, was born in 1854, on the farm where he yet resides, and is the only child of J. T. and Susan (Kennedy) Robison, who were natives of Ohio, and came to Iowa in 1846, settling in Port Louisa Township on section 18. Mr. Robison rented land for a few years, but afterwards purchased eighty acres of improved land on the same section. When the war broke out he responded to the country’s call for troops, enlisting in 1862 in Company G, 19th Iowa Infantry, for three years’ service. He participated in the battle of Prairie Grove, was engaged in the siege of Vicksburg, and at Sterling was shot through the shoulder and chin. He was then taken to the hospital at New Orleans, where he lay for about six months, after which he was honorably discharged at Davenport, and then returned to his home. His death occurred . . .

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. . . Oct. 5, 1881, at the age of fifty-one years. His wife died in June, 1858, aged about thirty years.

The paternal grandparents of our subject, John and Mary (Hunter) Robison, were natives of Ohio, and came to Iowa in 1853, settling upon the farm where our subject now resides. They made that their home until their death, the grandfather dying in 1878, and the grandmother in 1886, at the age of eighty-two years. During both the Mexican and the Civil Wars John Robison served his country faithfully and well. The maternal grandparents of our subject were also natives of Ohio, though they came to Iowa in its pioneer days, and here the grandfather died some years ago.

Our subject was reared upon a farm and received his education in the district schools of his native county. In 1874 he was united in marriage, in Louisa County, with Nevada Hutchinson, a native of Iowa, and a daughter of George and Mary Elizabeth Hutchinson, her father being a native of Ohio and her mother of Switzerland. They emigrated to Iowa at an early day, and Mr. Hutchinson died some years ago, but his wife is still living and resides in Nebraska. After his marriage Wilford Robison settled on a farm on section 18, Port Louisa Township, and in 1881 removed to the farm where he now resides. In his political views he is a Republican. To Mr. and Mrs. Robison have been born four children—Mattie Elizabeth, Calla Maud, Charley Myron and Willie Fay. The older children are attending school.