"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884.
F. A. BATTEY. F. W. TEPPLE
BROWN TOWNSHIP AND MOORESVILLE
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DR. CLARK ROBBINS is the son of Alford and Isabel (Griggs) Robbins, who were
natives of Ohio, and of Irish extraction. They came into Indiana about a
half a century ago, and settled in Morgan County, where on July 10, 1836,
their second son, the subject of this sketch, was born. Clark alternated
the duties of farm life with attendance at the public schools. He lost his
father when but fourteen years of age, and since that time has "paddled his
own canoe." At the age of nineteen, he began the study of medicine in the
office of Dr. Hutchinson at Mooresville, and in the winter of 1856-57 took a
full course of lectures at Ann Arbor (Mich.) University. The following
winter, he spent profitably at the Cincinnati (Ohio) Medical College, and in
August, 1858, began the practice of medicine at Monrovia, Ind. At the end
of two years, he removed to Brooklyn, Ind., where for the ensuing sixteen
years he pursued his profession with flattering success. The superior
school advantages of Martinsville took him to that town in the spring of
1876, and from Martinsville he removed to Mooresville in the fall of 1880.
Here he has since plied his profession with credit to himself and to the
satisfaction of his patrons. September 29, 1859, he was married in
Monrovia to Eliza J., daughter of John K. Wilhite, and has had born to him
one child--John A. Mrs. Robbins having died, the Doctor was married,
December 10, 1863, at Centreton, Ind., to Melissa Hardwick, by whom he has
had born to him three children--Ella, Minnie and Schuyler. He and family
are all members of the Methodist Protestant Church, the Doctor in fact being
one of its most substantial pillars. He is class leader, Financial Steward,
and Superintendent of the Sabbath School. For twenty-three years, he was a
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, but in February, 1881, joined the
above body and has since been an earnest worker. The only political office
the Doctor ever aspired to was that of Trustee of Clay Township, and this
office he held for ten consecutive years. Dr. Robbins was by education,
early training and many years' practice, identified with the "allopathic
system," but a few years since he chose to adopt a more liberal course, so
he cut loose from "creeds and ethics," and now practices under the best
authorities of the allopathic, eclectic and homeopathic schools.
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