Orin Werret Robe, M.D.
Orin Werret Robe, M. D. was born at Berea, Kentucky, December 26, 1868. His father, William Robe, was a native of Ohio, born August 10, 1847. He enlisted in Company F, 59th O. V. I., on the sixteenth of September, 1861, and was discharged on August 15, 1862, by an order from the War Department. He enlisted again, December 18, 1863, in Battery F, First Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery, and was mustered out July 27, 1865. Our subject's mother's maiden name was Elizabeth Burdette, born in Berea, Kentucky, in 1848. He was educated in the common schools and began the study of medicine with Dr. O. B. Kirpatrick, of Cherry Fork, Ohio, at the age of eighteen. He attended the Miami Medical College of Cincinnati, in the Winters of 1889 and 1890, and at the Starling Medical College, Columbus, Ohio, in the Winters of 1890 and 1891. He graduated from the latter in the Spring of 1891. He began the practice of medicine with Dr. E. M. Gaston, at Tranquility, on the first of April, 1891. On the first of June. 1891, he located at Youngsvilie, Ohio, where he remained until the first of April. 1897, and that Spring he took a post-graduate course at the Miami Medical College. He located at Peebles on the first of November, 1897, where he has remained in practice ever since. He was Coroner of Adams County, Ohio, from 1894 to 1897, and was appointed one of the Pension Examining Surgeons of the county in November, 1898, which office he still holds.
He is a member of the Baptist Church. He was married May 10, 1893, to Mary Martin. They have one child, Ada E.. born May 18, 1895.
As a boy and man he possessed and possesses a love of good horses. This taste was acquired while a resident of Kentucky. He has a high sense of honor and justice. In this he much resembles his grandfather Burdette and his kinsman, Sir Francis Burdette, of England, who preferred rather to go to the Tower than to make any compromise with wrong.
What success Dr. Kobe has obtained has been based upon a course of right and duty and not upon diplomacy. His motto has been "not expediency, but right," and he has lived up to it all his life.
From History of Adams County, Ohio from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time - by Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers - West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B. Stivers - 1900