This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Robinson, Hurlbutt Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Vm.2ADE/1037 Message Board Post: Dr. Robinson's Sad Death A letter and papers received at this office, Thursday morning, from Fred E. Robinson of Hutchinson, Kansas, gives us more particulars of the sad and sudden death of his father, Dr. A. H. Robinson, by falling down his office stairs. The stairway was quite steep and the steps covered with iron; as the doctor was leaving his office for the night he slipped at the head of the stairs falling head downward the length of the long stairway. Mr. Stewart, a real estate man, was passing just at the moment and was the only one who saw the accident; just as he came in front of the stairway he heard the noise of the fall, and says that the doctor's head struck at the bottom of the stairway and that he turned completely over. Dr. Robinson was conscious and was able to talk but little. At 11:15 o'clock, but a few hours after the accident, he passed away. He had all arrangements made to visit friends in this city and other parts of this state, where he resided so long and was so favorab! ly known. He was born at Milton, Vt., Jan. 17, 1842. At twelve years of age he was left to do for himself. In 1861 he enlisted in Co. C., 3d Regt. Vt. Vol. Inft., during the first week of his service he was wounded and taken prisoner, and was held in Libby and other southern prisons for several months, where his sufferings from starvation and sickness was terrible. On Jan. 25, 1864, he was honorably discharged by reason of surgeon's certificate of disability. The doctor was married on March 5, 1864, to Elvira Hurlbutt at Littleton, N. H., and gave his attention to the study of dentistry which has since been his profession. In 1867 they removed to this city where their only son Fred was born, and in April 1880 to Madison, from thence to their present home in Kansas in 1886. Dr. Robinson's wife and only son survive him and are bowed down with grief by their sad and sudden loss. The doctor was a comrade of Joe Hooker Post No. 17, G. A. R., under the auspices of which his funeral was very largely attended by both soldiers and civilians. Mrs. Robinson and her son Fred certainly have the deepest sympathy of this entire community. The Tribune, November 15, 1898, p. 1, col. 7, Evansville, Wisconsin