Yolo County CA Archives Biographies.....Robinson, W. H. 1835 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

W. H. ROBINSON (colored), farmer and teamster at Woodland, is the son of Denis
and Mary A. (Winrow) Robinson, natives of Kentucky. His father was a slave up to
the time of his death in 1839, in Ralls County, Missouri; his mother died in
California, February 17, 1889, at the age of eighty-five years. She was freed by
Robert Briggs, of Ralls County, when W. H. was sixteen years of age. He was born
in that county, March 11, 1835, and was freed at the age of thirty by the
emancipation proclamation, up to which time he was owned by John C. Briggs. He
came to California in 1868, landing in San Francisco December 24, having made
his journey by sea and the Isthmus. He was a resident of Buckeye, Yolo County,
until 1873, when he went to Woodland, where he now has a nice little home on two
acres of land. He does all kinds of farm work for other parties, having all the
varieties of farming implements necessary, and he is well known as an
industrious and upright citizen. He is a member of the Christian Church, as is
also his family. He married, in Ralls County, Missouri, Sarah A. Shields, who
was born in Kentucky, and they have two children,—Mary A. and Samuel H.

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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