Source: Commemorative Biographical Record of the counties of SANDUSKY & OTTAWA, OHIO
J. B. Beers & Co. 1896
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LAUREL ELMER ROBINSON, M.D., a successful and thoroughly trained medical practitioner of Clyde, Sandusky county, was born in Holmes County, Ohio, Aug. 14, 1845, so of Basil W. and Elizabeth (Blair) Robinson.  The father was born at Danville, Knox county, in 1818, and now lives at Mt. Vernon, Ohio, a successful retired farmer and stock dealer.  He bought horses and sheep extensively, selling them at Chicago and in other markets.  The paternal grandfather of B. W. Robinson emigrated from Scotland about the middle of the last century, and settled near Harrisburg, where he was engaged in general merchandising.  He died possessed of considerable property, and his will is now in the possession of B. W. Robinson.  William Robinson, one of the sons of this Scotch emigrant, was a member of one of the early legislatures of Ohio.  Solomon Robinson, another son, father of B. W., migrated from Pennsylvania to Ohio in 1799 or 1800.  He had eleven children, the eldest of whom was born in Ohio in 1801.  Solomon Robinson died of apoplexy in his eighty-sixth year on the farm he had cleared near Mt. Vernon.  Only three of his children survive: Daniel, of Lima; Mrs. Brooks, of Newark and B. W.  The latter is a Republican in politics; and a member of the Baptist Church.  His wife, Elizabeth Blair, was born in Ashland county, Ohio, in 1821, and died in 1889.  Her father was a Scotch emigrant; her maternal grand-mother was stolen from Ireland by a brother, and Elizabeth Blair is said to have been the first white child born west of the Ohio river.  When a child, during the early Indian troubles, she witnessed, through a crack in the stockade, the massacre of her brother - twenty-one years old - and of her sister - two years younger - both victims of the tomahawks and scalping knives of the savages.  B. W. and Elizabeth Robinson had five children, four of whom lived to maturity, as follows:  Rovilla who married John Godfrey Jones, a Methodist minister, and a graduate of Kenyon College, and now resides near Portsmouth; Laurel Elmer, subject of this sketch; Winfield Scott, a physician, who was educated at Mt. Vernon, Ohio, and Philadelphia, Penn., and who died in 1893; R. J., also a physician, now deceased; and one child that died in infancy.
     Laurel Elmer Robinson was educated at Mt. Vernon.  In 1868 he entered the U. S. regular army as hospital steward for a term of five years, passing a strict technical examination before his appointment could be made effective.  From this service Dr. Robinson received great professional benefit.  He was stationed in Arizona during the Indian troubles of 1870, and in his professional capacity was often under fire from the savages.  His hat brim was once shot off, and bullets several times pierced his clothing.  He was under Gen. Crook's command, and not infrequently prescribed medicine for this unassuming commander, but brilliant Indian fighter.  Retiring from the army service, Dr. Robinson completed a course of study at Rush Medical College, graduating with class of 1874.  He practiced two years at Mt. Vernon with his brother, R. J., then three years at Republic, Seneca county, and in 1879 settled permanently at Clyde, where he has since built up a large practice.  Dr. Robinson was married at Mt. Vernon, in 1876, to Miss Cora B. McElroy, and four children have been born to them - Howard, Lester, Carl and Russell; the latter died in June, 1894, aged two years and six months.  Dr. Robinson is a member of the Sandusky County Medical Society, and in politics he is a Republican.

EDWARD H. RUSSELL, a real-estate and insurance agent, and manager of the Opera House, Fremont, Sandusky county, was born at Fremont Jun. 14, 1855, son of Henry S. and Margaret (Hawkins) Russell.
     Henry Shubel Russell was born in Morgan county, Ohio, in 1817, and same to Lower Sandusky, now Fremont, with his father, in pioneer days.  He was master builder and contractor.  He served as sheriff of Sandusky county from 1865 to 1869; he married in Lower Sandusky, in 1843, a daughter of Thomas L. Hawkins, a local preacher of the M. E. Church, from Franklin county, Ohio.  Mr. Hawkins and his wife were natives of Kentucky, and came in 1817 to Lower Sandusky, of which town he was one of the incorporators, and he was a man of remarkable pluck and energy.  He was a cabinet maker, and to get water power built the mill-race which is still in existence at Fremont, and erected thereon a sawmill.  In politics he was an Old-line Whit.  In Mar., 1856, he moved to Vinton, Iowa, where he and his wife died at the advanced age.  To Henry a Margaret (Hawkins) Russell were born four children:  Frank W., who enlisted August 7, 1862, at Fremont, Ohio, in Company K, One Hundredth Regiment, O. V. I., went into active service, was captured at Limestone Station, Tenn., Sept. 8, 1863, and died in a Rebel prison at Richmond, Va., July 24, 1864; Henry, who died at the age of fifteen years; Ella, wife of C. A. Freeman, a grocer of Fremont, Ohio; and Edward H., whose name introduces this sketch.  The father's death occurred May 18, 1876.  In politics, he was a Democrat.
     Edward H. Russell was reared in the city of Fremont, and educated in the public schools.  On leaving school he traveled as business manager of a theatrical company for a period of eight years, and then returned to Fremont to engage in the insurance business.  In 1890 he took stock inthe Fremont Opera House Company, and became its business manager.  Socially, Mr. Russell is one of the charter members of Fremont Lodge No. 204, Knights of Pythias; a charter member and Past Exalted Ruler of Fremont Lodge No. 169, B. P. O. E.; a charter member of first financial secretary of Sherman Lodge No. 111, A. O. U. W.; a member of Edna Council No. 64, National Union; and a charter member and first presiding officer of Onoko Tribe No. 140, Improved Order of Red Men.  On Jan. 9, 1883, Mr. Russell married Miss Laura L. Snyder, daughter of Maj. S. A. J. Snyder, of the Seventy-second Regiment, O. V. I., ex-postmaster of Fremont, who died in 1889, and whose widow, Clementine (Creager), resides in Fremont, Ohio.  The children of E. H. and Laura L. Russell are:  Arthur McKnight, Major Henry, Harry Allen and Paul Edward Russell.  Mrs. Russell is a member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church.

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