Cleave’s
Biographical Cyclopædia of
Homœopathic Physicians and Surgeons
By Egbert Cleave
Presented by Sylvain Cazalet
OBINSON,
SAMUEL ADAMS, M. D., of La Porte, Ind., was born in Franklin,
Venango county, Pa., April 3rd, 1838.His father, Rev. John
Robinson, was born in Virginia, and is of Irish descent, his parents
being the only representatives in America of ancient families long
settled in the North of Ireland.His baptismal name,
Samuel Adams, is derived from the maternal side. His grandmother, Patty
Adams, was born near Boston, and was a member of the Adams family of
Massachusetts, which has produced so many great intellects, and is still
a strong stock. His grandfather, Samuel Plumer, was also of an old
Massachusetts family, and emigrated early to the then wild West of
Pennsylvania, and settled near Pittsburg. He became possessed of large
tracts of land, and established a family, which is among the best known
in Pennsylvania.Dr. Robinson was
chiefly educated by his father, and, showing early a predilection for
medicine, began study for his profession at the age of sixteen, and was
graduated before he was twenty, from the Western Homœopathic College,
Cleveland, O.He entered on practice
in Warren, Pa., where he was the pioneer of homœopathy, and established
an excellent business.He subsequently
introduced homœopathy in Girard, Pa., but his health failed after some
years of arduous labor. He therefore passed about two years in travel
for the re-establishment of his health, and in study to prepare himself
better for resumption of professional life. He attended the College of
Physicians and Surgeons, and Bellevue Hospital Medical College, and
occasionally in the New York Homœopathic College, together with the
clinics of the various hospitals of New York city. Being eminently
fair-minded and free from professional bigotry, he wished to avail
himself of whatever good allopathy can bestow, although a hearty
champion of his own theory.In 1867, he made a
permanent location in La Porte, Ind., and has met with full success. He
has a large experience in the diseases of this malarious district, and
is exceptionally successful, patients from a great distance frequently
applying for treatment of this class of complaints so often intractable
and persistent in the hands of good practitioners. He has done homœopathy
excellent service in this direction.Dr. Robinson has paid
special attention to diseases of women, in which he has had marked
success in the midst of this engrossing general business. Physicians,
who know him best, think no man in the West prescribes for more patients
yearly.Few men could endure so
constant mental and physical labor, but his fine elastic constitution
enables him to sustain an almost unlimited demand upon the nervous
energies. The most distinguishing characteristic of Dr. Robinson, aside
from an enthusiastic love for his profession, is a boundless energy,
which has heretofore expended itself in efforts towards practical
success. At thirty-five he has been able to place himself where we may
hope he will no longer be so fully immersed in business, and that the
profession will gain through his pen something from the rich stores of
his practical experience.Dr. Robinson married,
about ten years ago, Esther, daughter of Hon. Hiram Greeley Butler, of
Crawford county, Pa., a cousin of the lamented Horace Greeley. They have
one son. Dr. Robinson is a member of the American Institute, the Indiana
State Institute, and a life member of the Hahnemann Society. He was also
a member of the Western Institute, and its last Corresponding Secretary.He has refused several
professorships, preferring to devote himself wholly to practice. In
addition to his acknowledged skill and large experience he has a high
sense of personal and professional honor, which renders him at once the
safe confidant and true friend of his patients. As a citizen he is
enterprising, influential, and respected.Source
: Cleave’s Biographical Cyclopædia of Homœopathic Physicians and
Surgeons By Egbert Cleave