Robb, Matthew

Born: 1801-07-15

Died: 1870-02-21 McLean County, Illinois

Flourished: McLean County, Illinois

In 1827, Robb settled in McLean County, Illinois, where he established the town of Danvers. He served as the county's school treasurer, justice of the peace, and was elected, as a Whig, to the Illinois House of Representatives in 1846, serving one term.

The History of McLean County, Illinois (Chicago: Wm. Le Baron, Jr., 1879), 212, 569, 574; Gravestone, Stouts Grove Cemetery, Danvers, IL; John Clayton, comp., The Illinois Fact Book and Historical Almanac, 1673-1968 (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1970), 215; Theodore C. Pease, ed., Illinois Election Returns, 1818-1848, vol. 18 of Collections of the Illinois State Historical Library (Springfield: Illinois State Historical Library, 1923), 420.