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Linn, Robert (1813-1860)
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Source: West Virginia and Its People
Author: Thomas Condit Miller and Hu Maxwell
New York, Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913
Volume II, Page 33

Robert Linn, son of Robert and Catherine (Lyon) Linn, was born in Marion county,
West Virginia, while it was yet within Old Virginia, December 27, 1813, and died
December 7, 1860. He studied law in the office of Hon. Edgar C. Wilson, of
Morgantown, Virginia, and was subsequently admitted to the bar at Pruntytown,
Taylor county, in 1846; later he practiced law in Gilmer county, West Virginia.
For four terms in succession he served as prosecuting attorney, having been
elected on the Whig ticket, and he was serving in that office at the date of his
death. He held other offices of trust and importance, in which he served with
faithfulness and much ability. He was among the best known men of his section
and bore the esteem of all with whom he came in contact. Mr. Linn was an elder
in the Presbyterian church. He married in Fairmont, West Virginia, Sophronia S.
Newcomb, born in Greenfield, Massachusetts, in 1816, daughter of Ebenezer and
Sophronia (Smith) Newcomb. She was a woman of rare intelligence and refinement,
and a lifelong worker in the Presbyterian church. She was only two years of age,
when her family removed to Fairmont: hence her life was largely spent in what is
now West Virginia, and she died in August, 1890. Children: 1. Mary S., born
September 21, 1841, married Newton B. Bland, who died in March, 1896; she died
January 28, 1910, leaving three children: Robert Linn Bland, now an attorney at
Weston, West Virginia, who married and has four children; George Linn Bland,
assistant cashier of the Citizen's National Bank of Weston; Hattie, of Weston,
West Virginia. 2. Nancy Catherine Lyon, born May 3, 1845, married Marion T.
Brannon, of Glenville, West Virginia; she has three living children: Hon. Linn
Brannon, ex-judge of the circuit court; Alice, of Fairmont; Howard R., a bank
cashier of Glenville. 3. Robert G., [mentioned on pages 33 and 34 in this book].

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