[p. 519] a prominent citizen of Mahoning Township, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, of which he is the present assessor, was born in this township December 27, 1836, and is a son of Henry and Rachel (Cox) Robinson.
The Robinson family is numbered with the old and honorable ones of this section and it was founded here by Grandfather Henry Robinson, who secured 400 acres of wild but productive land, which was situated about two miles from the present town of Edenburg. On that land, surrounded by pioneer hardships and made thereby sturdy and strong, the first Henry Robinson reared his children. His son, Henry Robinson, became a citizen of Mahoning Township, where his life was beneficial, and whose death in 1876 left a vacant place among her most reliable men. For many years he served capably in various offices and he lent his influence to the building of churches and schoolhouses, to the improvement of the highways and to progressive methods in farming and stockraising. In like degree his son, Henry M. Robinson, has been a useful man in his community. The latter, with one sister and one brother, comprise the survivors of the family. The former, Emma, is the wife of John Henderson, of New Castle. The latter, Amzi C., resides at Edenburg.
Henry M. Robinson obtained his early education in the schools near his home, many of his classmates being still his neighbors and friends. He has devoted the larger part of his life to agricultural pursuits. For twenty years he engaged in threshing over Lawrence County, and Mahoning County, Ohio, owning his own outfit, traveling with it from place to place during the season. During his following of this industry Mr. Robinson kept abreast of the times and a great difference existed between the threshing equipment he used at first and the expensive and improved machinery which took its place.
On March 31, 1844, Mr. Robinson was married to Elizabeth J. Miller, who was born August 15, 1839, in Fairfield County, Ohio. Her parents were Joseph and Sydney (Wellington) Miller, who moved to Wayne County, Indiana, when she was a child. They remained there for ten years and then settled in Union Township, Lawrence County, where she was reared. Mr. and Mrs. Robinson have had three children: Edson M. and Harry D., both residing in Mahoning Township, and Mary S., who is decease. Mr. and Mrs. Robinson are members of the United Presbyterian Church. In politics he is a Prohibitionist. For fifteen consecutive years he has been assessor of Mahoning Township.
20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens Hon. Aaron L. Hazen Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, Chicago, Ill., 1908
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