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 927, Vermont Township
Joseph Robinson, farmer and stock-raiser, sec. 1; P. O., Ipava.
Thomas Robinson, his father, was a native of Penn., a farmer, who
married Anna Branson, of the same State, and of their 6 children Joseph
was the eldest, being born in 1813 in Chester Co., Pa. The family
emigrated to Fulton Co. in 1841, settling on a quarter of sec. 1,
Vermont tp. The father died in his 66th year, and the mother survived
him a year. In 1845 Joseph married Ruth Bogue, daughter of Jonathan B.
Mary, the wife of Elmer Meredith, in this township, is their only child.
