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From: MeiToi <>
Subject: ROBERTSON Report Vol 2 part 1
Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 15:43:31 EDT


History of Shelby Co., Ohio, R977.14/H629; Seattle Public Library
A.J. Robertson
The great-grandfather of the above - a Scotchman by birth - emigrated to the
American Colonies about 1770: his family consisted of his wife and three
sons. They located near Philadelphia, Pa. These three sons all took a part
in the struggle for independence. One of the three - Samuel - married a Miss
Hendricks, near Philadelphia, in New Jersey, about 1784. They moved to
Southern Ohio at the close of the last century and located within the present
limits of Warren County; here he died, but the date of his death is not know.
Of his family we will only speak of Samuel, the second son, who was born near
Elizabethtown, NJ, in 1787. He learned the brickmason trade, and is said to
have built the first brick house in Preble County, Ohio. This was in 1811.
While building this house he formed the acquaintance of Miss Susan Van Winkle,
of Preble County, whom he married the same year. In 1814 he entered the US
Army and received a commission as a major, by which title he was ever
afterward known. They reared a family of eight children. About 1812 he
entered a piece of land in Preble County, to which he moved his family and
where he made his home during the remainder of his life. He died April, 1872;
his wife died Oct. 1881, aged eighty-six years. Major Robertson was a
prominent man in his community; he was an extensive contractor on public
works, was Associate Judge of his county, and also Justice of the Peace for
many years.
Andrew Jackson, his eldest son, was born in Preble County in 1825. He
remained at home with his parents on the farm until seventeen years of age, at
which time he went to learn the trade of stone-cutting. He worked as an
apprentice about
two years. In 1844 he, with a partner, went to Hamilton, Ohio, and built a
mill on the Hydraulic, for the purpose of sawing stone for monumental and
building purposes. They ran the mill about two years, when a freshet
destroyed the Hydraulic, and left him without power to work........to be
continued......

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