Benson C Robbins (1848 - 1918)

Born 20 Jun 1848 in Syracuse, Onondaga, New York, United States

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Died 5 Mar 1918 at age 69 in Free Soil, Mason, Michigan, United States

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Biography

Benson Robbins served in the United States Civil War.
Enlisted: August 24, 1864
Mustered out: August 5, 1865
Side: USA
Regiment(s): Company E 2nd New York Cavalry

Benson was born in 1848. He was the son of Alvin Robbins and Harriet Kilmer. He passed away about 1950.

The following story comes from the Clinton County, NY, Civil War Records 1861-1865 Facebook Page:

FOLLOWED IN HIS FATHER’S FOOTSTEPS - Benson C. Robbins was born on June 20, 1848, in Syracuse, NY, where his father, Rev. Alvin Robbins, was then a pastor of one of the M. E. Churches, and a member of the Black River and Troy Conferences for forty years.

Benson was educated at the Jonesville Academy, Washington County, NY, and the Fort Edward Institute. At the age of 16, in the summer of 1864, while still a student in Fort Ann, he enlisted in Plattsburgh to serve for three years in Company E, 2nd Cavalry. For enlisting he received a town bounty of $600. Benson served until the close of the war in the Shenandoah Valley and on the Appomattox Campaign and was wounded and otherwise disabled in the line of active service. He was placed by the United States Bureau of Pensions on the pension rolls for that disability. He was mustered out on August 5, 1865, at Alexandria, VA.

After Benson returned from the war, his father moved the whole family to Michigan. Benson married Jemima Manchester in 1870 and they had a daughter who lived until 1967. He was ordained an elder by the Wesleyan Conference at Spring Arbor, MI, in 1883, and was an evangelist and pastor in that state for twenty-one years and served as pastor of the First Congregational Church of Crystal, MI. He retired from the ministry after 1900 and died in Freesoil, MI, on the eastern shore of Lake Michigan in 1918. Jemima died in 1925 and was buried under the same stone in the Maple Grove Cemetery in Freesoil.

Sources

• Find A Grave: Memorial #36061071

• Kilmer, Rev C H. History of the Kilmer Family in America. Elmira, NY: Advertiser Association, Printers, 1897. Page 106.

• Rosters Of The New York Cavalry Regiments During The Civil War—2nd New York Cavalry

• "Michigan, Civil War Centennial Observance Commission, Committee on Civil War Grave Registration, Burial Records," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:WWL7-M13Z : 16 September 2019), B C Robbins, ; citing Burial, Free Soil, Mason, Michigan, United States, Michigan Department of State. History Division, Lansing; FHL microfilm 008621309.

• "Michigan, Grand Army of the Republic Membership Records, 1876-1945," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q24T-HTRC : 7 January 2020), Benson C Robins, 31 Dec 1891; citing Mulliken, Eaton, Michigan, United States, Michigan State Archives, Lansing; FHL microfilm 905,748.

• "New York State Census, 1855," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K637-TNR : 3 March 2021), Benion C Robins in household of Alvin Robins, E.D. 1, Bethlehem, Albany, New York, United States; citing p. , line #33, family #124, county clerk offices, New York; FHL microfilm 521,923.
• "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MC42-L2N : 18 February 2021), Benson C Robbins in entry for Alvin Robbins, 1860.
• "New York State Census, 1865," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVNF-R323 : 8 March 2021), Benson C Bobbins in household of Alvin Bobbins, District 02, Fort Ann, Washington, New York, United States; citing Census, p. 10, citing multiple county Clerks; Warren and Lewis County Board of Supervisors; multiple counties in New York; Utica and East Hampton Public Libraries, New York.
• "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZGL-2F1 : 29 May 2021), Benson C Robbins in entry for Alvin Robbins, 1870.
• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MWSH-MRC : 14 January 2022), Benson C. Robins, Jefferson Township, Hillsdale, Michigan, United States; citing enumeration district , sheet , NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm.
• "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MS9M-3D8 : accessed 26 September 2022), Benson C Robins, Chase township, Lake, Michigan, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 10, sheet 10B, family 240, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,724.
• "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MLRH-N6R : accessed 26 September 2022), Benson C Robbins, Free Soil, Mason, Michigan, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 56, sheet 7A, family 99, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 663; FHL microfilm 1,374,676.