Show HE PROSECUTED OF iF THE ILLINOIS PRAIRIE Pioneer Lawyer Who Fought Lawbreakers Lawbreakers Lawbreakers Law Law- breakers Dead at nt Rockford CHICAGO Feb 5 Thomas f D. D Rob Rob- epson etson a pioneer banker and lawyer yer of northern Illinois is dead de-ad at Rockford aged 84 years He was a native of Edinburgh Scotland and In his young days was interested in the publication I of or the Mechanics' Mechanics mag magazine with an elder eider brother In 1838 he came to America America Amer Amer- ica and settled in Winnebago county One of his first cases as a lawyer was vas the prosecution of the of ot the prairie lawbreakers kers who for fox years overran northern and western counties stealing and murdering In 1813 Mr Robertson with John A. A Holland opened the first banking- banking house in Rockford an institution of which he was president at the time of his death He was one of the founders of Debit Beloit college and Rockford College I Ifor for Won Women His estate is estimated at 1 Ji 4 |