From Ancestry.com's Historic Newspaper collection; the Indiana Gazette, 6/8/1892: Elliott Robinson, one of the oldest and most respected citizens of West Wheatfield township, this county, died at his home, after a protracted illness, on Wednesday last. Mr. Robinson's father was born in England and was a young man when the American Revolution took place. Being an English subject, he was drafted into the service and sent to this country to fight the Americans. He was all through the war and wounded at the battle of Yorktown. He carried a Bible in his breast pocket and a Yankee bullet struck the book and cut quite a hole in it. This book is now in the possession of Mrs. Lynn, a sister of Mr. Elliott Robinson. The elder Robinson was present at the surrender of Cornwallis, and after peace was declared returned to England, where he married and at the age of 25 years emigrated to the United States. He was not long in discovering that he was on the wrong side of the contest, and although entitled to a pension from the English government, he refused to accept it and became one of the most loyal Americans. He first located in what is now Blair County, but soon he and his wife moved to what is now Westmoreland county and at a location somewhat four miles south of where the town of Bolivar now stands. Here was born in 1808, Elliott Robinson, the subject of this sketch. At that time Chambersburg was the nearest town of any note and from there the Robinsons got their supplies, bringing them across the mountains on pack-horses. This part of the state was then infested with numerous tribes of Indians, but they were always treated kindly by Mr. Robinson and his family and no depredations were committed no the new settlers. Land at that early date was cheap and Mr. Robinson purchased a large tract, paying $4 per acre. After his father's death Elliott Robinson purchased the interest of his brothers in his father's estate and erected the first saw and grist mill in that neighborhood. The first house erected in Blairsville was constructed of lumber sawed and logged down the Conemaugh from the neighborhood of Bolivar by Mr. Robinson. After some years he sold out his mills and and during the construction of the Pennsylvania Railroad, he became prominent contractor on that line. He was the pioneer of the fire-brick industry in this part of the state and his first venture was the erection of works at Bolivar in 1858, now operated by Reece, Hammond & Co. After he sold his plant he erected the works now operated by E.J. MIldren, at Blacklick on the Indiana branch. When he disposed of this plant, he put up another at Bolivar. Disposing of this he erected another on the Indiana side of the river and turned them over to his two sons, Thomas J. and William I. Robinson, who are not successful at operating them. His father's family consisted of twelve children, 3 girls and 9 boys, all dead except a sister, Mrs. Lynn of Fairfield township, Westmoreland county. He was a far-seeing active businessman, and when the Bolivar branch of the Pennsylvania branch was completed. he laid out the town of Garfield, on the river apposite Bolivar and sold a great many lots and the town is now one of the brightest along the river. He was an enthusiastic member of the M.E. Church and known far and wide as an honest, upright, christian man. He was one of the strong supporters of the Government during the late war and his purse was always open to the wants of the families of those who went into service, and many of those made widows or orphans by the stern fate of war can bear testimony to his kindness in their time of need. His sympathy for the distressed did not end in kind words, but his expressions of sorrow were accompanied, where needed, by substantial aid. Though well up in years a the time of the war, he enlisted with the three months' men and assisted in the capture of the rebel raider, Gen. Morgan. He was a man of more than ordinary intelligence and his advice and council was sought by his neighbors on all important subjects. He leaves a widow and six children, three girls and three boys, the latter all grown up and well to do, having inherited the energy and thrift of the two parents. WILL OF THE LATER ELLIOTT ROBINSON The will of Mr. Robinson was probated by Register McGregor on Saturday, 13th inst. He bequeaths to his wife the furniture in her room, "except the old clock," and also such amounts of his real and personal property as she would be entitled to under the intestate laws of the State. His two daughters, Annie Elizabeth and Carrie are given the remainder of the household goods, and for services rendered $500 each, and in addition the lump sum of $1000 apiece. The sum of $1000 is also devised to his son John W. Robinson. The land on which the brickyard is building the testator valued at $2,000 and this is devised jointly to his sons William I. and Thomas J. To his daughter, Mrs. Mary J. Rugh, id devised the sum of $400 and a judgment note held against her husband by the testator is released. To his granddaughters, Margaret Lillian Hadley, Martha Luella Brown and Elizabeth Catherine Winkle is devised $100 each, and a like sum is given to testator's grandson, Wm. Winkle. The ! residue of the estate, real and personal, is devised to his three sons and two daughters named above. John W. and Wm. I Robinson are appointed executors. The will is dated June 22, 1889, and was witnessed by J.N. Banks, Esq., and G.W. McCune. On the 24th of June, 1890, a codicil was added to the will by which Mary J. Rugh is made an equal sharer in the residue of the estate along with the brothers and sisters named.