From the book "Nebraskans," 1854-1904, p. 297

The Bee Publishing Co., Omaha, Neb., 1904

Available online through The Library of Congress

Note: 1874 was the year of his arrival in Nebraska. He was born around 1853 in Indiana.
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The Indicator, Volumes 42-43, Leavenworth & Burr Publishing Company, 1917, page 38:

Bascom H. Robison, founder and president of the Bankers Reserve Life of Omaha, died at his home on the 30th ult, aged 63. Mr. Robison entered the life insurance business at Omaha and became general agent of the Mutual Reserve Fund Life. In 1897 he organized the Bankers Reserve as a stipulated premium company and in 1903 this was re-incorporated as a mutual legal reserve company. In 1908 it was put on a stock basis with a capital of $100,000 and has grown into a large and strong institution, for which Mr. Robison was largely responsible. He was an active and influential member of the American Life Convention and was its president for one year. He is survived by a widow, three married daughters and one son.

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Excerpt from the Illustrated History of Nebraska: A History of Nebraska from the ..., Volume 3, By Julius Sterling Morton, pages 564-565:

ROBISON, BASCOM H., founder and president of the Bankers Reserve Life Company, of Omaha, was born January 22, 1853, in Washington county, Ind., son of Robert and Elizabeth (DeWitt) Robison. His father was a native of Virginia, of Scotch-Irish ancestry, and a business man of character and standing. His mother was a member of the historic DeWitt family of New York, of German, French, and English descent. She was a woman of education and refinement. When he was but fourteen years old, his father died, and, as the oldest of five children, the support of the family fell heavily upon him.

--- The family consists of the wife, son, and three daughters. In all that pertains to enlightened wifehood and motherhood, Sara Frances Robison has devoted her life to the work of furthering the welfare of her family. The son, Robert L. Robison, and the daughters, Myrtie M. Preston, Edna O. Wagner, and Lillian Beatrice Farney, all received the benefits of college training.

Bascom H. Robison, Obituary, The Weekly Underwriter, 1917, Jan.-June, Volume 96

Bascom H. Robison, Obituary, The Indicator, Volumes 42-43, 1917

Published in the Omaha Daily Bee, December 31, 1916, Page 9.