Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Robinson, Noble 
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Author: History of Grundy County, 1914

ROBINSON, Noble.-A citizen who has shown his versatility by engaging in 
several lines of business, and who has displayed his ability by making a 
success of each of his ventures, is Noble Robinson, of Wauponsee Township, one 
of Grundy's representative men. Mr. Robinson is an Englishman, his birth 
taking place in Huntingdonshire, August 14, 1840. He was eleven years of age 
when he came to the United States on the sailing vessel, American Eagle, with 
his parents, Robert and Elizabeth Robinson, the family locating at Lockport, 
Niagara County, N. Y. Robert Robinson secured employment on the Erie Canal, 
and at different points acted in the capacity of superintendent, and 
eventually, after several years spent in Erie County, N. Y., brought his 
family to Grundy County, Ill. Several years later he removed to Bureau County, 
Ill., and there was the proprietor of a hotel up to the time of his death.

Noble Robinson was nineteen years of age when he came to Grundy County, and 
here secured employment in the coal mines, under Robert Davidson. In the 
spring of 1859 he returned to New York on a visit, but several months later 
came back to Illinois, and again became a coal miner, and afterward became an 
operator, but disposed of his interests and again worked in the coal mines 
until he was severely injured in an accident. In 1872 he located in Morris, 
Ill., where he first engaged in the liquor business, and soon thereafter took 
William Allen as a partner. This association continued for eleven years, when 
Mr. Robinson bought Mr. Allen's interest and continued to carry it on in the 
business block which he had built on Liberty street. In 1901 he sold out to 
Thomas Pattison, who conducted it for three years; then Mr. Robinson took the 
building and started in the grocery business which he conducted for three 
years and finally rented the building again to Mr. Pattison for same purpose 
as Mr. Pattison had previously used it for. Mr. Robinson is now devoting his 
attention to the cultivation of his farm, and is at this time the owner of 160 
acres of land all in a high state of cultivation. He has developed his 
property until it is one of the finest in Wauponsee Township, and substantial 
buildings add much to its value. Mr. Robinson is an able farmer, and is 
capable of taking advantage of the various modern improvements. As a citizen 
he is accounted one of his locality's upright and public-spirited men, and his 
general popularity is attested by his many friends.

On April 22, 1861, Mr. Robinson was married to Miss Isabelle Lindsey, who was 
born near Montreal, Canada, whose parents were natives of the North of 
Ireland.  Mr. and Mrs. Robinson have had these children: Ephraim Robert, of 
Wauponsee Township; William, of Morris, deputy county clerk; Agnes, who became 
Mrs. Richard Bahner, of Morris; Elizabeth, who married Frank Spees, of Morris; 
Thomas J., of this city; and Henry Rutherford, who is assisting his father in 
the conduct of the home farm. He had four children; one child who died in 
infancy; Noble, Frederick and Arthur. Mr. Robinson has lent a hand in the 
management of the public affairs of Morris, having served efficiently as 
alderman of the Third Ward for three terms. His religious connection is with 
the Episcopal Church, and his fraternal affiliations with the Odd Fellows and 
Masons.

pages 893-894

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Source:  History of Grundy County, Illinois, Chicago: Munsell Publishing Co. 
Publishers; 1914

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