Charles H. Robinson was born in Concord township, Monroe county, Ohio, July 22, 1848. His grandfather was Vincent Robinson, his father, Samuel Robinson. The latter was a native of Pennsylvania and throughout his life carried on agricultural pursuits. He married Martha Hunter and they became the parents of eight children, three sons and five daughters, of whom four are yet living: Mary J.; Eliza, widow of Joseph Carr; Alice, wife of R. Shipley, of Piqua; and Charles H. Those who have passed away are Sarah E., Agnes A., William A. and Joseph V.

Mr. Robinson of this review spent the first four years of his life in his native township and then accompanied his parents to Miami county, the family locating on section 26, Spring Creek township, where he still makes his home. The common schools afforded him the educational privileges which he enjoyed and his training at farm labor was received in the fields under his father's direction so that he had a practical knowledge of the business when he began farming on his own account. He assisted his father until he was twenty-one years of age and then rented the old home place which has since been his home, with the exception of six years passed upon another farm in Spring Creek township. The place is conveniently located one and a half miles north of Piqua, where he carries on general farming, his labors being crowned with a fair degree of success.

In 1870 Mr. Robinson was married to Martha McCurdy, daughter of Samuel McCurdy, and they now have three children: Mary P., wife of J. W, Shie, of Piqua; Boyd E., who is also living in Piqua; and Helen E., at home. The family attend the Presbyterian church, of which Mr. Robinson is a member. In politics he is a Republican, and in April, 1899, was elected trustee of Spring Creek township, which office he filled in a creditable manner. Almost his entire life has been passed in this locality and those who have known him from boyhood are numbered among his warm friends, a fact which indicates that his career has been an honorable one.