Robert Little

    Robert Little, son of Guy and Jennetta (Dickson) Little, was born in Lanarkshire, Scotland, March 10, 1817. When about twelve years of age, he began to learn weaving, at which he worked until 1835, when he came to America, landing in New York. He passed eight months in Canada, then returned to New York, but shortly after moved to Pennsylvania, where, in 1839, he married Jane Brine, a native of the North of Ireland. He engaged in weaving and farming until 1855, in which year his father died in Canada, when he moved to Illinois, purchased a farm of fine land on section 13, well stocked and furnished with good buildings and all kinds of fruit.

    He had born to him seven children -Jane, born in 1840; Robert, in 1842; James, in 1843; Guy, in 1845; Mary, in 1847; Anna, in 1849, and William John in 1852, and all in Pennsylvania excepting Mary, who was born in New Jersey. Mr. Little is a successful farmer, and stands high in the esteem of his fellow citizens.

Source: Counties of Warren, Benton, Jasper and Newton, Indiana. Historical and Biographical. F.A. Battey & Co., 1883.