Robert Albert Sturgeon Robb and Mrs. Mary Persohn

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Husband Robert Albert Sturgeon Robb ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 24 Aug 1840 or 1841 2 3
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           Died: Aft 1893
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         Father: Ebenezer Robb (1803/1810-1884) 1 2 4
         Mother: Elizabeth Wallace (1814-1878) 1 2 4

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   Other Spouse: Emma S. Boyd (Abt 1842-1904) 5

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Wife Mrs. Mary Persohn ⁵

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General Notes: Husband - Robert Albert Sturgeon Robb

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He received his education at the public schools of his native township in Washington County, Pennsylvania. At the age of seventeen years he went to Mansfield, Pennsylvania, and attended the Carnegie Academy, where he took a preparatory course, and in 1861 entered Jefferson College, graduating in 1864. He then went to Pittsburgh and read law in the office of Kirkpatrick & Mellon, and was about to be admitted to the bar when his eyesight failed and he was totally blind for three months. Having to abandon the cherished notion of pursuing his profession, he returned to his old home in Washington County and remained on the farm. Prior to this, and during his college term in 1863, he was drafted and was mustered into the Union army, but paid three hundred dollars for a substitute and returned to college, and after he completed his college course he volunteered, serving on detached duty with the rank of orderly sergeant with a corporal's guard, and was stationed at the Union Station of the Pennsylvania railroad on Liberty street, Pittsburgh, to take charge of the Rebel prisoners being sent to Dayton, Ohio. After serving six months the regiment to which he belonged was honorably discharged at Camp Howe. He came to Pittsburgh about 1866 and followed mercantile pursuits a few years, and in 1872 entered the employ of Hostetter & Smith as a clerk. He later became secretary and treasurer.
Politically Mr. Robb was a supporter of the Republican party, but never aspired to official position. He was of the United Presbyterian church faith and profession. When a youth he walked four miles to attend the old Robinson church, and after he came to Allegheny City he united with the Third United Presbyterian church, known as Ridge Avenue church. He was a trustee and superintendent of the Sunday school for over ten years. He was appointed a member of the general assembly and was secretary of a committee to revise pastoral and Bible songs of both the church and Sunday school. About 1889 he severed his connection with this church and became a member of the Westminster Presbyterian church, and was chosen treasurer of the building committee for the erection of a new church on Buena Vista street. He was also a member of the session and board of trustees. In 1894, on account of his removal to North Craig street, Pittsburgh, he became a member of Bellfield Presbyterian church, where he was a member of the board of trustees, as well as interested in the work of the Sunday school. Mr. Robb was a member of the Sons of the Revolution, being eligible through both the paternal and maternal branches of the family.

He had children with his first wife, but none lived to maturity.

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General Notes: Wife - Mrs. Mary Persohn

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Her father was the master mechanic of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company's shops at Steubenville, Ohio.

The Persohn family were of old Huguenot stock.

1 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 558.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. IV (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 132.

3 John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Wallace Family (New York: Self-published, 1902), Pg 25.

4 John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Wallace Family (New York: Self-published, 1902), Pg 14.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. IV (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 133.