WI BIO - Jackson Co - ROBIE, James

History of Northern Wisconsin. Chicago: Western Historical, 1881, vol I, p 413

James ROBIE, M. D., Black River Falls [Albion Township, Jackson County, 
Wisconsin], was born 23 August 1830 in Franklin County, Vermont. Dr. ROBIE 
graduated in 1852 at the Woodstock Medical College in Vermont. He came to 
Green County, Wisconsin, where he remained a short time, and then started for 
St. Paul [Minnesota] on 12 December 1855.

While on his journey to St. Paul, Dr. ROBIE stopped at Black River Falls 
[Jackson County, Wisconsin] to attend to Mr. Sam HOFFMAN, proprietor of the 
Shanghai Hotel, who had broken his leg. Dr. ROBIE stopped with no intention 
of remaining there, but stayed until after the rebellion. [The distance from 
Green County to Jackson County is roughly 160 miles. If Dr. ROBIE began his 
journey on 12 December 1855 and stayed in Jackson County until after the 
rebellion, then he was in Jackson County over nine years, since the Civil War 
ended in April 1865.] 

In 1865 Dr. ROBIE went to Missouri, where he opened a drug store and 
practiced his profession. Some time afterward he came back to Black River 
Falls [Jackson County, Wisconsin], and is still [text published 1881] 
practicing his profession there. 

On 12 October 1868 Dr. James ROBIE was united in marriage to Ellen L. LEARY, 
who was born in 1849. [Assuming the dates of birth given are correct, Ellen 
L. LEARY would have been nineteen or twenty years of age and Dr. James ROBIE 
thirty-eight when they married.] They [Dr. James and Ellen L. ROBIE] have 
five children: Nellie L., Laura, Edgar, Gratia, and Alice.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly