CHRISTIAN C. ROBERTSON, whose home is on section 12, Ustick township, Whiteside county, Illinois, is one of the leading agriculturists of his community, being enterprising, energetic and reliable. Although he is still a young man, his popularity is established on a firm basis - that of his own well-tested merit.

Mr. Robertson was born on his present farm May 22, 1867, a son of Joseph K. Robertson, a native of Indiana, who was born on a farm near New Albany, September 7, 1825. His parents, John and Rebecca (Riddle) Roberson, were early settlers of that state and also pioneers of Cass county, Illinois, where they located when Joseph K. was only three years old. Both have long been dead, the grandfather dying December 22, 1870, the grandmother in January, 1839.

Joseph K. Robertson grew to manhood in Cass county, where he followed farming for a time, and there he was noted in marriage to Miss Mary Needham, who was born in West Milton, Yorkshire, England, May 11, 1834, and was ten years of age when brought to this country by her parents, John and Elizabeth (Poshley) Needham, also natives of England. In their family were only two children, the older being Thomas, who died in this country about 1879. In 1853 Mr. and Mrs. Robertson came to Whiteside county, where he took up land and began to make a home for himself and wife. As he succeeded in his undertakings, he added to his first purchase from time to time until at his death he owned four hundred and fifty acres of valuable land. He died September 26, 1897, honored and respected by all who knew him  Politically he was a Democrat, and on his party ticket was elected to several township o9offices, including those of collector and school trustee, the duties of which he discharged in a capable manner.

To Joseph K. and Mary (Needham) Robertson were born nine children, namely: (1) John H. is a farmer of Graham, Nodaway county, Missouri. (2) Sarah is the wife of f. F. Williams, a farmer of Clyde township, Whiteside county, and they have four children: Annie E., George, Mary Agnes and Helen. (3) James B., a resident of Missouri, married Sarah Lisle, a native of this state, and they have three children: Annie, Joseph and Florence. (4) Joseph is a farmer of Union Grove township. (5) Isaac N. died when quite young. (6) Mary A. is at home. (7) Susan E. died young. (8) Margaret E. is at home. (9) Christian C., our subject, completes the family.

During his boyhood and youth Christian C Robertson attended  the district schools near his home, and later completed a business course at Fulton college, from which he was graduated in 1887. He has always lived on the home farm, and since his father's death has had charge of the same, while previously he assisted his father in its management. It consists of two hundred and forty-nine acres, on sections 13, 14, 23 and 24, and he has displayed excellent business ability and sound judgment in its operation. The father erected the buildings upon the place, consisting of a comfortable modern residence and substantial outbuildings, and our subject has made other improvements since it came into his control. In connection with general farming he carries on stock raising with marked success. he is a Democrat in politics but has never been an aspirant for official honors, though he has served as school director in his district8strict. Socially, he is quite prominent, belonging to Dunlap lodge, No. 321, F. & A.M., of Morrison; the Mystic worker, No. 9, of Ustick, of which he is master; and Ustick camp, No. 3995, M. W. A., of which he is now clerk.