Dr. Robert Robinson
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Dr. Robert Kellen (or Killin) Robinson (b. 1840 - d. 1891) was born September 18, 1840 in Ohio and died September 8, 1891 in Indiana. For three years, he served with the Union Army (Company B, 4th Regiment, O. V. I.) in eastern Kentucky where he was attached to the medical staff. From 1870 to 1874, until a fire destroyed the plant, he published the Xenia Gazette, outside the city of Peru, Indiana.
His married his first wife Isabel Jane "Jennie" Vandervort on April 15, 1866 in Clinton County, Ohio. They had three children of which two survived him: a daughter, Gertrude L. Robinson (who married Ed Oglesbee) and a son, Joseph William Robinson. Isabel died March 13 (or 12), 1876 and is buried in Indiana with Dr. Robinson.
He married his second wife, Florence "Frances" Loretta Darby, on September 18 (or 17), 1879 in Miami, Indiana and they relocated to Prescott, Arizona in 1882 where he practiced medicine for nine (9) years and co-owned with Harry Brisley, from 1887-1893, the Mountain City Drugs Store on Montezuma Street. In 1887, he was appointed county physician of Yavapai County by the Board of Supervisors.
In 1891, Robert and Frances left Prescott for Indiana, as Robert was having medical issues. Unforunately, he died September 8, 1891. He is buried in New Antioch Cemetery, New Antioch, Ohio with his first wife, Isabel or "Jennie."
Dr. Robert Robinson and Frances had four children of which two daughters survived him: Beryl D. Robinson born August 9, 1880 in Indiana and Fern Adelaide Robinson born July 12, 1889 in Prescott. Later, Beryl married H.C. Freeman and she died August 14, 1972 in Oakland, California. Fern married Benjamin Franklin Bean Wallis on September 18, 1913 in San Francisco, California. She died on October 16, 1957 and is buried in Glendale, Los Angeles, California.
Sources: Family Search, Find A Grave, Weekly-Journal Miner (Prescott, Arizona), Arthur L. Bodurtha, History of Miami County, Indiana: A Narrative Account of Its Historical Progress, Its People and Its Principal Interests.
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