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Author: Adina_Dyer
Surnames: Robinson
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I am not related and don't have any other info on this family.
Thursday, August 17, 1882
The Ohio Democrat, pg. 2
New Philadelphia, Ohio
Death of an Old Patriarch--His Children Aged People
Lafayette, Ind., Aug. 1--Friends and relatives this afternoon followed to the grave
Matthew Robinson, the oldest man in Tippecanoe County, if not in the state. The family
record, as kept by the children, makes Mr. Robinson 108 years of age, but the gentleman
always asserted that it was not correct, he claiming the register in Ireland made him
eight years older.
Robinson's parents were Scotch, though he was born in Ireland. He was with Old
Hickory at New Orleans, was never sick to speak of in his life, and maintained his mental
faculties to a remarkable degree.
Robinson has a daughter residing in Grand Rapids who is 78 years old, and his son, with
whom he made his home, is about 60.
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