BIOGRAPHY: David E. ROBESON, Mifflin County, PA

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The Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley, Comprising 
the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata, and Perry, Pennsylvania.
Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897, Volume I, page 494.

  DAVID E. ROBESON, deceased, son of Moses and Susan (Poole) Robeson, was born 
in Blair county, Pa., near the village of Birmingham, in Huntingdon county.  The 
Robeson family is of Scotch-Irish descent.  The children of Moses Robeson and 
his wife are:  David E.;  John M., of Neosho, Mo., has two children;  Moses, 
Jr., of Galena, Kan., has four children, is largely interested in the lumber 
trade, and is president of the Citizens' Bank at Galena;  Sanford, of Clearfield 
county, Pa., has four children, owns large agricultural and mining interests;  
Mary, widow of Josiah Galbraith, of Clinton, Ia., has sons and daughters;  
Priscilla, widow of George Colvin, Warriors Mark, Pa., has sons and daughters;  
Jane, widow of Vincent Miller, residing at Warriors Mark, Pa., has sons and 
daughters;  and Sarah (Mrs. Nevilling), died leaving four children.
  David E. Robeson was educated in the public schools.  At the age of sixteen he 
became salesman in a store at Birmingham, Pa., in which position he displayed 
such ability as to lead to his appointment as station agent at Tyrone, Pa.  In 
1856 he was made ticket and freight agent at Lewistown Junction.  This position 
he resigned in 1865 to assume the duties of cashier of the National Bank of 
Lewistown, which he continued to perform until his death, which occurred October 
20, 1895.  He was a Republican, interested in local affairs, and although not an 
office-seeker, was elected to various posts in the borough.
  The marriage of David E. Robeson to Martha E., daughter of John and Barbara 
McCullough, took place November 20, 1855.  Their children are:  James C., 
married Elizabeth, daughter of William and Catherine (Reese) Coleman;  Mary 
(Mrs. Edwin H. Molly), of Lebanon, Pa., has one child, Martha;  Dr. William F., 
of Pittsburg, Pa., married to Marion B. Giddin;  and Effie.  William F. Robeson, 
M. D., is a graduate of the Universities of Pennsylvania and of Berlin, Germany.  
He was formerly a resident physician at the Blockley Hospital and Alms House, in 
Philadelphia, and afterwards at the Wills Ear and Eye Hospital, in the same 
city.  He is now practising in Pittsburg, Pa., and makes a specialty of diseases 
of the eye.  James C. Robeson, born August 27, 1856, attended the common schools 
of Lewistown, and at the age of twenty entered the Eastman Business College, 
Poughkeepsie, N. Y.  After his graduation, he filled a clerical position in the 
bank with his father until 1893.  He is a Republican.  The family attend the 
Methodist Episcopal church, of which the late David E. Robeson was a faithful 
member.