Robinson Twp. -
JUDGE J. C. OLWIN, lawyer and County Judge, Robinson, was born Dec. 6, 1838, in Montgomery County, Ohio, and was brought up on the farm.  His facilities for an education were good, and he attended several of the leading institutions of learning of his native State, thus receiving a good, practical education.  In 1860, he commenced the study of law in Dayton, and, in 1862, matriculated in the Ohio State and Union Law School of Cleveland, where he graduated in 1863, and in the fall of the next year came to Crawford County, Ill.  Upon his arrival here he taught one term of school near Palestine, and then located in Robinson and commenced the practice of his chosen profession - the law.  He was elected to the Thirty-second General Assembly, which term expired in 1882, and in November of the same year, was elected County Judge, which position he now fills.  He has also filled the office of master in chancery two terms (four years).  Judge Olwin is a Republican in politics, and when it is taken into consideration that he has been elected to these positions in a Democratic county, his popularity as a citizen and his integrity as a public officer is at once apparent to the reader.  Judge Olwin was married Jan. 4, 1866, to Miss Amelia A. Tobey, of Montgomery County, Ohio.  The result of this marriage is a family of six children, five of whom are living, viz.:  Harry, Claudia E., Ora M., Tobey and Beulah.  Dead - Jessie.
--- Source: History of Crawford & Clark Cos., Illinois - Illustrated - Publ. Chicago: O. L. Baskin & Co., Historical Publishers, Lakeside Building, 1883 - Page 249

Hutsonville Twp. -
JOHN OLWIN, merchant, Hutsonville, is a native of Montgomery County, Ohio, born Dec. 5, 1838, to David and Nancy (Grabill) Olwin. His father was born in Pennsylvania about 1812, but was raised and educated in Montgomery County, Ohio, after he arrived at his majority, he taught school for sixteen years, and afterward engaged in agricultural pursuits until he died in 1875.   He was of German descent and a son of Anthony Olwin, a native of Pennsylvania, a soldier of the Revolutionary war.  The mother of our subject was born in Virginia, and died in 1851, aged thirty-five years.  Her ancestry was also of German descent.  She was the mother of nine children, of whom John Olwin was the third child born.  He was principally raised in Darke County, Ohio, and had but a limited common school education.  At twenty-one years of age, he left his home and embarked on the rugged pathway of life as a farm hand, working for small wages.  At twenty-three he enlisted in the Fourty-fourth Ohio Infantry, under command of Col. Gilbert, and was in about twenty battles, among the largest was the charge of Greenville, Tenn.  He was taken prisoner at the Cumberland Mountains, Tenn., while on a retreat, and confined in the Libby Prison for about a month, when he was exchanged.  He entered the war Apr. 23, 1862, and was mustered out June 4, 1865.  After the war, he returned to his home, made his parents a short visit, and then located in Hutsonville and engaged in the furniture business in company with Fred Earnest.  After six months, he sold out the business to J. A. Parker, and entered his employ as clerk for one year.  The following year, he joined the partnership of J. R. Hurst & Co.  He has been connected with this firm for fifteen years, and at the present time is at the head of the firm, and takes upon himself the general management of the different stores and grain business.  He was married Oct. 6, 1866, to Miss Rebecca F. Hurst who has borne him the following children, viz.:  Charley H., Lola M., Georgia E., Oceola, Fredie B. and Birdie Garfield.  Mr. Hurst has removed his family to Paris, Ills., where his children can receive the benefit of its superior schools.  Mr. Olwin is an active worker in the orders A., F. & A. M. and K. of H.; he is Senior Warden of the former and Treasurer of the latter.  He has served the town as School Director, Trustee of the town for five years, and Township Treasurer for seven years.  Politically, is a Republican, and he and wife are members of the Christian Church.  Mr. Olwin is a member of the community whose loss would be deeply felt, and is now enjoying the fruits of a well-established business, which is wholly the results of his own energy, industry and good financiering.
--- Source: History of Crawford & Clark Cos., Illinois - Illustrated - Publ. Chicago: O. L. Baskin & Co., Historical Publishers, Lakeside Building, 1883 - Page 286

Robinson Twp. -
E. N. OTEY, Robinson, member of the firm of Otey & Son, was born in March, 1831, in Palestine, Ill.  He learned his trade of house carpenter in Terre Haute; has worked mostly in this county.  In 1881, he and his son built a planing mill in Robinson, and has been engaged in that business ever since.  He owns a good residence in town and ten acres adjoining the corporation.  He was married in Terre Haute, Dec. 20, 1865, to Miss Mary C. Hebb.  They have four children, namely:  Harry E., Rose, Clifford F. and Helen. 
--- Source: History of Crawford & Clark Cos., Illinois - Illustrated - Publ. Chicago: O. L. Baskin & Co., Historical Publishers, Lakeside Building, 1883 - Page 249