GENEALOGICAL RECORDS

or one husband, as the case may be.
 The entire family has been remarkable for physical
vigor. The oldest surviving son of Joseph Robles is well
Along in the seventies, but is younger in appearance than
;the majority of men twenty years younger.
 Without exception the members of this family are in-
dustrious, thrifty, trustworthy, excellent citizens.
 The fifth surviving son, Francis M., is a lawyer of
ability, a graduate of the law department of the University
of Iichigan. After practicing his profession a number of
years he became county judge of Hillsborough County, a posi-I
tion that he occupied for eight years. Afterwards he be-
came judge of the circuit court for the Sixth judicial cir-
cuit, which embraces Hill3borough County, which distinguished
office he still fills.
 All of the members of this large family either live
 within the corporate limits of the city of Tampa or in its
 near vicinity, all receiving their mail from this postoffice.
 Joseph Robles was a man of such scrupulous integrity
 that when the question of secession was placed before the
 people of the state of Florida, although an ardent southerner
 in sentiment, he opposed the measure, because when he was
 naturalized he took a solemn oath to "support, protect and
 defend" the constitution and government of the United States.j
 This action was an index of the high principles that actuated
 the deeds of the man's entire life.














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