Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Robert OFFICER
!INFO: per Gordon Miltenberger, Dec 1999 - per letter from Casto P. Officer in 1966. "Concerning Robert Officer: Robert made quite a record for himself in his life time. Robert's father was Sheriff of Washington
Co, PA. at the time of his death. Robert was in the mercantile business until after his father's death, and soon after he seems to have sold his business an d becan dealing in real estate, buying and sellin; raising sheep; in 1823 he was elected Sheriff of Washington Co., serving four years, maybe six years. In 1827 he was elected an elder in the First Presbyterian Church, and office he held until the time he left PA in 1852.
In 1830 he was elected county Auditor; in 1835 Robert was one of the original organizers of Washington Female College, and helped secure a building. He was appointed to a committee to sercure a building for the Franklin Bank of Washington, PA (later this bank was known as the First National Bank). He was one of the incorporators, and in 1838 was elected to the Town Council. In 1840-41 he served as Town Burgess; in 1843 was appointed by the town Council to report on plans and the cost of a Town Hall.
In 1852 Robert moved with his family to Jacksonville, Illinois, where he bought real estate. A year later, selling his real estate, he moved to Springfield, Illinois. her he became a close friend of Abraham Lincoln who presented him with a picture of himself in the spring of 1861, before leaving for Washington, D.C. to be inaugurated as President of the United States. This picture shows Robert with a long tail coat and a high top silk hat, which makes him look as if he was the President himself.
- In 1868 Robert sold his real estate in Springfield, and with some of his family moved to Council Bluffs, Iowa. There again he took up the real estate business, looking after it himself until his death Oct 3, 1873.
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