Dobbins, R. N. bio

History of Fulton County, Illinois; together with Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Chas. C. Chapman & Co., Peoria, Illinois, 1879, page 913-914, Vermont Township
R. N. Dobbins, farmer, sec. 2; P. O., Ipava; born in Clermont Co., O., in 1814; his father, Robert B., was a native of Va., moved to South Carolina, and after several years back to Va., where he received a collegiate education and became a Presbyterian minister; was an Abolitionist; in 1814 he and his young wife came to Ohio on horseback, bringing all their possessions with them; in 1835 they came to Vermont, where he purchased over a section of land; he died in 1854; Mrs. D. died in Nov., 1847. Robert N., in his 26th year, in this tp., married Martha Jane Erving, daughter of James Erving, of Lancaster, Pa.