Napa County CA Archives Biographies.....Robinson, Charles 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

CHARLES ROBINSON, whose ranch is in Brown's Valley about three miles from Napa,
has lived in California since 1850, and in Napa County since 1855. His ranch
comprises 450 acres, of which about forty acres is in vineyard. Ten acres of
this is in resistant vines, and he will gradually replant the remainder. He has
about six acres in orchard, and the main part of his business is general
farming, dairying and stock-raising. He was born in Helsingborg, Sweden, in
1831. His parents dying in his early infancy, he was brought up by relatives,
taking the name of an aunt. He attended the local schools until fourteen years
of age, and after passing some time in Stockholm he came to America with his
uncle in 1848. He arrived in San Francisco on October 12, 1860, coming by way of
Cape Horn as cabin boy in a sailing vessel. After a short experience in the
mines he settled in Napa County, and began the business of buying cattle from
the immigrants who came into this valley across the plains. He continued trading
until 1861, when he bought a ranch of 200 acres on Coneros Creek and engaged in
wheat-raising. At the same time he purchased a horse-power threshing-machine,
and later a steam thresher, which he operated in connection with his farming up
to the time he bought his present home in 1880. He has recently completed an
elegant house of nine rooms on the place, with modern conveniences, water being
introduced under pressure from a neighboring hill. Mr. Robinson has a
wine-cellar, 62 x 32, and two stories in height, stone below and frame above,
and of a capacity of 35,000 gallons. He has still on hand all the wine of last
year's vintage, to the amount of about 25,000 gallons. He is the owner of
one-fifth of the Palace Hotel and of the East Napa Land Company. He is a member
of the I. O. O. F., Napa Lodge, No. 18.

Additional Comments:
Extracted from

Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California.

Illustrated, Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast
from the Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with
Glimpses of its Prospective Future; Full-Page Steel Portraits of its most
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers and also of
Prominent Citizens of To-day.

"A people that takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendents." – Macauley.

CHICAGO
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1891.


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