Lucien Newton Robinson

Known by Newton or Newt, he had operated a foundry, was a builder, and from about 1851 to at least 1860 was superintendent of the Union Mills and distillery on the Ohio & Erie Canal at Portsmouth, OH. He helped organize an artillery battery, of which he was commissioned Captain on 31 October 1861 at age 44. It mustered as Battery L, Ohio Light Artillery between October 1861 and January 1862.

He commanded his battery and the artillery battalion (with Captain Barnes' Battery C, 1st NewYork Light Artillery) of the Division on the Maryland Campaign.

He resigned his commission on 11 November 1862 due to physical disability.

He was a boat builder back in Portsmouth, a farmer in Illinois where he also prospected unsuccessfully for oil, then went to Kansas and was briefly Superintendent of the Southern Indian Agency. By 1870 he was a hotel landlord in Emporia, KS and was elected to the state legislature. After that service he moved to Portsmouth, OH and in 1875 he ran unsuccessfully for state Senate.

His service basics from the Roster.1 Carman2 has him as Lucius N. Robinson. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860 & 1870, Andrew Feight's Union Mills and Lock 50 of the Ohio & Erie Canal, and his obituary in the Jackson (OH) Standard of 6 December 1877, thanks to Jim Smith. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture from a photograph posted by Andrew Feight, Ph.D. for the Scioto (OH) Historical Society to accompany that Union Mills history.

He married Eliza Jane Riggs (1822-1886) in May 1839 and they had 6 children, 4 of whom survived him.

03/19/1817; Cincinnati, OH

11/26/1877; Portsmouth, OH; burial in Greenlawn Cemetery, Portsmouth, OH