ROBINSON, JAMES T., was born Jan. 21, 1808, at New Malton, Yorkshire, England. Of his ancestors, Thomas Robinson, merchant of Malton, England, died Oct. 23, 1779, aged sixty-eight years. His son, Marmaduke, died April 28, 1797, aged seventy-nine. His son, William Barton Robinson, married Alice Blackburn. They had four children. Their two youngest were James T. and Barton, sketches of whom are herewith given. James T. came to New York in 1829, traveled through the Eastern States and Canada, and came to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in December, 1830, in Buffalo Hart Grove, just in time to witness the "deep snow." He bought land there, and was married Oct. 10, 1832, to Minerva Starr. They had five children in Sangamon county, Illinois.

EMMA L., born Feb. 1, 1834, died, unmarried, Sept. 13, 1868, in Sangamon county.

EDMUND H., born Dec. 31, 1835, was married Oct., 1874, to Harriet Chapman. They reside near Buffalo Hart, Sangamon county, Ill.

WILLIAM B., born May 29, 1838, enlisted July 25, 1862, for three years, in Co. I, 114th Ill. Inf. He was captured at the battle of Guntown, Miss., June 10, 1864, was taken to Andersonville prison, entering about the 18th of June; remained three months; taken to Savannah, thence to Millen; back to Savannah, and from there to Florence, South Carolina, where he remained three months, and on the approach of Sherman's army was removed to Goldsboro', North Carolina, where he was paroled Feb. 25, 1865; released at Wilmington the next day, and honorably discharged at Springfield May 30, 1865. He was married Feb. 21, 1867, to Arminta Burns. They have two children, JOHN B. and ALICE CAREY, and reside two miles north of Buffalo, Sangamon county, Illinois--1874.

JOHN B., born Nov. 21, 1839, enlisted at Springfield July, 1861, in what became Co. B, 11th Mo. Inf., for three years. He was killed in battle at Iuka, Miss., Sept. 19, 1862, and buried on the field.

CHARLES, born Sept. 25, 1845, raised in Sangamon county, spent three years, 1870, '71 and '72, in Oregon, is unmarried, and lives with his mother.

James T. Robinson died Dec. 8, 1871, and his widow resides two miles south of Buffalo Hart station, Sangamon county, Illinois.

Mr. Robinson had business east, and in the spring of 1831 he embarked on the steamboat Talisman, in the Sangamon river, near Springfield, and went as far as St. Louis on that boat, and from there to Pittsburg on another boat, and over the Allegheny mountains, by stage, to Philadelphia. The Talisman was the only steamboat that ever ascended the Sangamon river.