John J. Robinette was Canadas top lawyer from the 1930s to 1980s, showing unparalleled versatility and virtuosity in criminal, civil, and constitutional cases.

Allen Robinett was probably born in Cheshire, England about 1632, and came to America with William Penn's colonists in 1682. Descendants lived in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky, Ohio, Texas and elsewhere.

(From the introduction) The material for Vinton County and Its Families was compiled over a period of many years. The information included is principally from 1850, the date of the establishment of the county, to the near present time (1996).