Robert L. Stebbins    

ROBERT L. STEBBINS, farmer, manufacturer and stock-raiser, P.O. Mosiertown, was born July 3, 1839, in Cussewago Township, this county. His father, Lemuel Stebbins, a native of Wilbraham, Mass., born in 1798, was a descendant of the celebrated Stebbins family of Essex County, England. Rowland, the founder of the family in America, immigrated in 1634 to Springfield, Mass. Lemuel came to this township in 1819, where he married, March 6, 1823, Lucinda Greenlee, born January 2, 1803, daughter of the famous pioneer, Michael Greenlee, of Delaware, who came to this township from Fayette County, Penn., in 1797, remaining one year in Meadville, Penn. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Stebbins settled in Cussewago Township, this county, where they afterward resided. Here they cleared up and developed a fine farm of upward of 300 acres of land. Mr. Stebbins kept store at Mosiertown for several years. He was a leading spirit in all improvements. He established the first cheese-factory in this part of the country; also built a steam grist and saw-mill. He was a thorough example of a self-made man, as he had but 25 cents when he came to the county. He died September 24, 1852. His widow survives him, and is now living at the family homestead, and, although at the advanced age of eighty-one years, is still in good possession of her faculties. Their children are—Mrs. Amanda Whipple; Mrs. Lorene Clarke, of South Pueblo, Col.; Lot D.; Orson M. (deceased); Erastus B. (deceased); Mrs. Chloe R. Carr; Robert L.; Matilda L., of Denver, Col.; Benjamin F., drowned July 26, 1881, at Oil City, Penn.; and Rufus R. (deceased). Benjamin F. was a soldier in the Sixteenth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry. He was wounded in the right arm at Sheperdstown, W.Va., and lost his left leg at Hatcher’s Run, Va. He was County Treasurer one term. At the time of his death he was a member of the Oil City Oil Exchange. Our subject is now living with and taking care of his aged mother. He owns a fine place of 180 acres well-improved land; also owns and operates the only cane-mill for the manufacture of sugar and molasses from Northern cane or sorghum in Cussewago Township, which he established in 1880. This is perhaps the largest establishment of the kind in the State. Mr. Stebbins takes an active interest in public affairs; has held the office of Town Clerk and various township offices, fulfilling his duties with fidelity and to the satisfaction of the people. He takes a deep interest in the improvement of live stock, and is at present engaged in the raising of thoroughbred short horn cattle on his farm. In politics our subject is a Republican.

History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania: containing a history of the county, its townships, towns, villages, schools, churches, industries, etc., portraits of early settlers and prominent men, biographies, history of Pennsylvania, statistical and miscellaneous matter, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1885. View image of this page of the book on line at ancestry.com.  Free access  More Crawford County History Books  Search Hundreds of 1880s-1890s Pennsylvania County History Books for biographies and historical information on your ancestors.  View the book page images on line and print them out for your genealogy file!  Free Access to the old history books - plus birth & death records, census images and ALL other records at ancestry.com

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