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Note: ANDREW ROBB. M. D., physician, Blanchester. Andrew Robb, M.D., the son of James and Catherine Robb, was born on the old Robb homestead, near New Richmond, Clermont Co., Ohio, on February 6, 1816. He worked on the farm with his father during summers, and attended school winters till sixteen years of age, when be attended the New Richmond Academy for eighteen months. The distance from his home to the Academy was three miles, which he walked night and morn, although the road was rough and hilly. He then taught school in that vicinity, studying medicine at the same time with Dr. Alfred Noble, of Goshen, Clermont Co. While teaching his first school in Franklin District, Clermont Co., he became interested in four bright pupils, who took their primary lessons in the same class, but have since grown to manhood and taken their stations high up in the ranks of life. They were Perry Donham, a prominent attorney of Cincinnati; Prof. John Hancock, one of Ohio's ablest teachers and for a number of years Principal of the Cincinnati schools, and the two Browning brothers Frank, deceased, editor and proprietor of the Clermont Courier, and Charles N, the genial and talented editor of the Clinton Republican. After teaching two years, he turned his whole attention to the reading of medicine till November, 1837, when he commenced medical practice with his preceptor. He attended lectures in 1840 and 1841, and graduated in the fall of the latter year, from the old Ohio Medical College of Cincinnati. He located in Anderson, Indiana, and November 28, 1843, was married to Miss Clara Carmichael, daughter of Duncan and Catherine Carmichael, of Rush County, a worthy pioneer family of southern Indiana. In the fall of 1847, he returned to Goshen, and purchased the interests of his former preceptor. He moved to Blanchester, Clinton Co., in 1860, where he practiced successfully for twenty-two years, and is now, in company with his worthy companion through life, enjoying the reward of a long and laborious professional life. They have had three children born to them -- William E., born September 12, 1848, and died at the age of two and a half years of malignant diphtheria; James D., born May 20, 1850, and died December 5, 1864, of cerebro-spinal meningitis, and Clara B., born December 11, 1854. Clara attended the common schools of Blanchester until sixteen when she commenced a collegiate course at the Ohio Female College at Oxford, Ohio, and graduated with high honors. She delivered the valedictory address and the following year accepted the invitation to deliver the literary address and the literary diplomas. In August 1875, she was married to Eberle D. Smith, a graduate of Miami University at Oxford, Ohio, and was, as of 1882, a banker in Blanchester. The above was adapted from Family Tree Maker, CD450: County and Family Histories: OH, 1780-1970, Disk 1, Clinton County, Biographical Sketches, Marion Township, 0hio. Broderbund Software, Inc., Banner Blue Division, March 14, 1999. The original account was published in 1882.
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