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From: Maggie Stewart-Zimmerman <>
Subject: BIO: ROBINSON, 1881, Knox County Ohio
Date: Sun, 6 Dec 1998 06:24:39 -0500


For Jim Humphey
>From the "History of Knox County Ohio. Its Past and Present":
Page 785:
ROBINSON, Solomon, deceased, a native of Maryland, was b. 1871 (this
has to be a typo); he married Miss Rebecca WORKMAN in 1801 or 1802, a
native of Maryland, born in 1873 (?another typo), daughter of Isaac
Workman. They settled in Maryland, remained a short time, then migrated to
Harrison County Ohio where they lived until 1811 when they moved to Knox
County, Ohio and located in Union Township, on the farm now owned by Jacob
Rose, near Danville. He erected a log cabin, which served them as an abode
for about ten years, when he built a hewed log house in which they lived
for several years, when he erected a frame addition to this residence,
which he used as a dwelling until 1866 when he moved to Clinton Township,
near Mt. Vernon, where he passed the remainder of his days.
By his marriage to Miss Workman he had twelve children: Joseph,
Barbara, William, Isaac, Sarah, Hugh, Matilda, Jacob, Margaret, Daniel,
Basil, and Nancy, five of whom are living. His companion deceased March
14, 1835. He married for his second wife, Nancy WELLS, nee WORKMAN, in
1837 by whom he had one child, Louisa, deceased. He died September 10,
1866. His wife survived him until 1878, aged ninety years. He was reared
a farmer and followed farming as his vocation.

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