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NOBLE COUNTY,
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| GEORGE
RICH,
one of the earliest pioneers, was a native of Virginia.
He died in 1818. His children were Sally, Ann,
Jane, Polly, and Jeremiah. Jane and
Jeremiah are still living. The latter is among the
oldest native residents of the township. He was born
on the farm where he now lives, in 1815. He married
Lovina, daughter of James Reed. Three of
their children are living. Mr. Rich taught
school in early life. He has been a member of the
Methodist Episcopal church for fifty years. |
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| JOHN
RICH,
soon after he settled, lost a couple of horses. After
searching all around in vain he heard of some horses that
had swam the Ohio River in Moundsville, and went in search
of them. He went back to his old home in Greene
County, Pa., and found them there. They had found
their way home through the almost trackless wilderness,
alone and unaided. |
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| JOHN and ABRAHAM
RICH were noted hunters.
They kept dogs and hunted through all the surrounding
country, killing many bears, wolves, wild cats, panthers and
deer. |
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JOHN
W. ROBINSON. The Robinson family
are of English extraction. Richard J. Robinson,
the father of the gentleman whose name heads this article,
was born in Virginia in 1812, where he grew to manhood and
married Miss Nancy Hook. He acquired
the trade of millwright, and was also skilled in wagon
making. In 1854 he removed to Noble County, settling in
Sarahsville, where he died in 1886, aged seventy-three
years. John W. Robinson was born near
Winchester, Va., Jan. 28, 1843. Early in life he
evidenced a decided aptitude for mechanics, and when but a
mere child was able, with the few Rude tools at his command,
to construct almost anything, from a toy wagon to a
miniature steam-engine. His youthful imagination was
highly wrought up by some telling him that huge fortunes
awaited him if he could discover "perpetual motion."
He immediately commenced a series of experiments with
wheels, buckets, elevators, etc., only to have his hopes
blasted by the information that the same experiments had
already been made by others and that he was laboring with an
impossibility. At the age of sixteen his mind was
directed toward educational matters. His facilities
were, of course, quite limited, but by the aid of private
tutors he studied history and the classics. He entered
the Marietta College, but ill health prevented him from
pursuing a collegiate course. In 1862 he began life as
a teacher at East Union, Noble County, where he taught one
term. The war was in progress, and he was so
thoroughly impressed with his duty to his country, that
after teaching a second term at his home in Sarahsville he
joined Company E, Eighty-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, as
a private soldier. At the expiration of a year he was
detailed a clerk in the Commissary Department, where he
remained until honorably discharged by special order of
General Hooker, when he returned to his
home and resumed his former vocation. His profession,
however, then as now, was illy remunerated, and not wholly
congenial, and he next turned his attention to the
introduction of improved textbooks for schools, and for four
years he traveled the eastern part of the State as the
representative of Ingham & Bragg,
Cleveland, Ohio, at which time traveling agents in this
capacity were discontinued by the "Publishers' compact."
He next engaged in the drug and book business in Sarahsville,
but the business was too slow and tedious for one so
impulsive and energetic, and he removed to Indianapolis,
where he became associated with Messrs. Martin &
Hopkins, State agents for the Northwestern Life Insurance
Company of Milwaukee, as a solicitor. In this, as in
other enterprises, he was successful, and in two years we
find him occupying the responsible position of special agent
for the same company, working in Indiana, Kentucky, and
Michigan.
In this department he
soon evinced his marked ability as an insurance man, and as
evidence of their appreciation of his services the company
offered him the State of Kentucky, which he accepted.
For one year he took the sole charge of the business.
Being ambitious to control the largest agency the company
had, he associated himself with General B. R. Cowen
(Assistant Secretary of the Interior during General
Grant's administration), taking, under the firm
name of Cowen & Robinson, the States of
Ohio and Kentucky. This connection was highly
successful, and continued for nearly four years,
General Cowen retiring.
Under the able management of Mr. Robinson,
the company's business has not only been built up from
$1,500,000 to over $4,000,000, but has commanded the
confidence and patronage of the best men in the State; and
it can be truly said that no agency is in a more healthy and
prosperous condition than this. One of the officials
of the company, in speaking of Mr. Robinson, says: "Mr.
Robinson has been in the employment of our company
for many years, and is likely to continue in such employment
much longer. We have found him a thoroughly competent
and reliable man and we commend him to you as a gentleman
who enjoys our confidence." Dec. 24, 1867, Mr.
Robinson was married to Miss Olive B.
Dilley, of Sarahsville. He resides in
Louisville, Ky.
The career of
Mr. Robinson is one worthy of emulation.
Starting in life with only his natural resources as his
capital, he has, by individual effort, acquired an enviable
position in the business world, and the esteem and regard of
all his acquaintances.
(Portrait available) |
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JAMES H.
ROTHROCK, as is
shown by a card in a local paper, had a law office in Olive
in 1853. He came from West Union and was a young man
of ability. He remained a short time in the county
waiting for the controversy over the county seat to be
settled. Then tiring of this he removed to Iowa.
He has since been one of the judges of the supreme court in
that State. |
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