Captain John Robinson, Jr., born December 25, 1793, in Lincoln County, North Carolina. He had married Margaret Carnahan Wilson on October 1, 1815. They started the journey to Oregon in April 1846 across the Plains, from Putnam County, Illinois, and arrived in Oregon Territory in October that year. They first located in Clatsop County, but soon moved to the Corvallis area, where he died December 9, 1874. John had been a Captain in the War of 1812, and was the son of a Revolutionary War veteran. He spent two terms in the Oregon Territorial Legislature, being first elected to the position in 1847.