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EARLY SETTLERS OF SANGAMON COUNTY - 1876
By John Carroll Power

These biographies were submitted by a researcher and evidently abstracted from the 1876 History of Sangamon County, IL. Errors could occur, so one should always verify the correctness by obtaining copies of vitals and performing all necessary research to document what is contained herein.




ROBINSON, MRS. ANN, whose maiden name was Norris, was born May 5, 1779, in Harford county, Maryland. She was married there, in 1805, to Richard Robinson, a native of the same county. They had two children, and Mr. Robinson died in Baltimore, Nov. 5, 1811. Mrs. Robinson, with two sisters, Temperance Norris, born May 4, 1775, and Elizabeth, born March 22, 1777, and Mrs. Robinson's two children, moved to Springfield, Ill., arriving in March, 1835. Of her two children--

ARNOLD R., born Dec. 10, 1807, in Baltimore, Md., came to Springfield, Ill., in 1835, was married at Jacksonville, Ill., March 19, 1840, to Eliza Robison, who was born July 4, 1822, in the city of New York. Mr. and Mrs. Robinson reside in Springfield, Ill. A. R. Robinson has been for many years an active Free Mason and Odd Fellow, having taken all the degrees in both orders, and always holding some official position. He is Secretary of St. Paul's Lodge of Masons, No. 500; is Grand Tyler of the Grand Chapter, and Grand Council of the State of Illinois. He has been six years in the employ of the United States Government as Custodian of the U. S. Court House and Postoffice, in Springfield, Illinois.

PRISCILLA, born August 9, 1809, in Baltimore, Md., lives with her brother, Arnold R., in Springfield.

Mrs. Ann Robinson died July 30, 1860, in Springfield, Illinois. Of her two sisters who came with her--Temperance died Feb. 4, 1849, and Elizabeth died Dec 20, 1872, both in Springfield, Illinois.




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