Documentation:
!Birth: Robe family Bible (pub. 1895) belonging to Rev. Robe; also Oregon Donation
Land Claims
!Marriage: Robe family Bible;
!also Lane County Marriages vol. 1, 1852- 1859 (pub. Cottage Grove Gen. Soc.) p. 4.
Married by Rev. Henry Harmon Spalding at Eliza Ann Walker's father's Donation Land Claim
near Creswell.
!Rev Robe was the first school superintendent in Lane Co.
!The Lane County Historical Museum ms. collection has the papers of Pleasant Hill
School Dist. no. 1, 1853-; this was the first school district in Lane Co. and perhaps
there is info. about Rev. Robe in these papers.
!See Lane County Historian vol. 1 no. 1 (mentioned); vol. 15, no. 3; 3,6,; vol. 7:
28; vol. 2:26; vol. 6, 21-24; vol. 8, 25; vol. 11, p. 45; portrait vol. 6, p. 22.
!Death: Robe family Bible; from Oregon Death Index at Ancestry.com: Robe, Robt.
County: Linn. Death date: 25 May 1909. Certificate: 1431
!Burial: in Pioneer (Masonic) cemetery in Brownsville.
!Rev. Robe's Oregon Trail Diary (original), April-August 1851;
!Session Minutes of Brownsville Presbyterian Church kept by Rev. Robe;
!2 Letters, 1906, from Rev. Robe to his sister Rebecca Robe Forsythe of Kimbolton, Ohio;
!Biographical sketch in Portrait and Biographical Record of the Willamette Valley, Oregon;
!Biographical sketch (ms.) of Rev. Robe by his son Hermon Linn Robe;
!Biographical sketch in alumni directory of Washington and Jefferson College, Washington, PA.
!Don Hunter of Eugene told me (May 1995) that in the Central Presbyterian Church in
Eugene, founded by Rev. Robe, they have his books, his worn and mended Bible, his Greek-
English lexicon and dictionary, and his meditations on the Lord's Prayer. In 1995 they put
together a booklet on the church's history. The chapel part has two stained glass windows
from the old church that was remodeled in 1955. They celebrated the church's 140th
anniversary in May 1995; in 2005 will be the 150th, with a banquet, etc. Rev. Bo Harris is
the current pastor.
!Source: Cambridge Jeffersonian No. 48, Feb. 18, 1904, Page 3. Transcribed from
microfiche by Ricky L. Clark (rick_l_clark@cngp.cng.com) on July 27, 1999:
Rev. Robert Robe Honored
A copy of the Brownsville, Oregon Times gives us an account of the honor conferred
upon Rev. Robert Robe by the Brownsville, Oregon, Presbyterian church, Dec. 30, ultimo,
when he was made pastor emeritus for life. He was born in Guernsey county, Ohio, Octo. 10,
1822, and was graduated by Washington, Pa., college in 1847, in the same class with Hon.
James G. Blaine. After a course of study in Allegheny Seminary he was licensed in 1849,
ordained in 1850, and settled for a short time in Coshocton, O. In 1851 he crossed the
continent and located in Oregon. He did pioneer work there for years, establish- ed
churches, taught school and served as pastor, living to see the small beginning of a
presbytery with one church develop into over one hundred churches. He was frequently a
delegate to the General Assembly and has occasionally visted his boyhood home during the
years.