From "HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY,"  Vol. I, pages 505-506.
Brant & Fuller, 1890.


ROBERT L. ASHBROOK

Robert L. Ashbrook, M. D., a successful and popular young physician 
of Fulton, Ohio county, was born in Washington county, Penn., March 
13, 1865.  He is the son of Absolom and Sabina (Allion) Ashbrook, the 
former of whom was born in 1813 and the latter in 1815, and who were 
married in 1845.  These parents had eight sons and five daughters, 
and eight of their children survive.  Dr. Ashbrook received his early 
education in the common schools of Washington county, and 
subsequently he studied at Ada, Ohio, and California, Penn.  After 
teaching school six and a half months he attended the college of 
physicians and surgeons of Baltimore, where he was graduated in the 
spring of 1886.  He at once began the practice of his profession in 
Marshall county, W. Va., and after eighteen months came to Fulton, 
where he has now a good practice in the town and surrounding country, 
and has promise of a successful and honorable career as a physician.  
During the past- year he improved his professional education by a 
post graduate course in the Polyclinic institute at New York.  The 
doctor is a stockholder in the Nottingham Iron and Land company, of 
Alabama.  He was married October 17, 1888, to Lena Dorsey, who was 
born in Marshall county, September 29, 1867.  He and wife are members 
of the Methodist Episcopal church of Fulton. 


(Linda Fluharty)