"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
RAY TOWNSHIP, MORGAN COUNTY, INDIANA
PAGE 290
GABRIEL ROBINSON is a native of Anderson County, Ky.; was born January 31,
1828, and is the sixth of the eight children of Gabriel and Mary (Rice)
Robinson, of Irish and German extraction. Our subject was reared on a farm,
and secured but one month's schooling during his youth. At the age of
thirteen, he became a learner of the blacksmith trade, at Middletown, Ky.,
where he remained until 1852; then moved to Washington County, and thence
to Leesville, Ind., where he worked at wagon-making, and also managed a
blacksmith and wagon shop until 1864, when he came to this county, where he
carries on the same business. December 25, 1847, he married Mary E.
Gwathmey, to which union were born two children--Kate M. and Camden. In
May, 1846, Mr. Robinson enlisted for the Mexican war, in Company I, First
Kentucky Volunteer Infantry. He served in the battles of Monterey, having
made a forced march of sixty-nine miles in seventeen hours, and Buena Vista,
being discharged in May, 1847. Mr. Robinson was also in our late war, a
recruit of Company K, Sixty-seventh Indiana Regiment, going out as private,
and being promoted to a Lieutenancy, as which he resigned in April, 1863
having served at Munfordville, siege of Vicksburg and other engagements.
Mr. Robinson is a member of the I. O. O. F.
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