Whiteside County IL Archives Biographies.....Robinson, Samuel W 
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Author: Portrait/Bio Album, Whiteside County IL 1885

Samuel W. Robinson, senior member of the firm of S. W. Robinson & Bro., 
hardware merchants and dealers in agricultural implements at Morrison, was 
born Jan. 5, 1835, in Zanesville, Ohio. Robert P. Robinson, his father, was 
born in Pennsylvania in 1809, and acquired a knowledge of the business of a 
foundry-man and hardware merchant. He married Mary J. Culbertson, who was born 
in 1812 near the city of Zanesville, Ohio, and was raised in Pittsburg, 
Pennsylvania, and a few years after transferred his family and business 
interests to Zanesville, where he engaged in the sale of hardware, and 
operated there more than 20 years. In 1857 he came to Dixon, Ill., and passed 
about four years in the foundry business. About 1861 he went to Sterling and 
established a trade in agricultural implements, in which he was interested to 
the time of his death. The mother died at Zanesville. Of their seven children 
only the brothers who are conducting a joint business at Morrison are living. 
Mr. Robinson was placed at school as soon as he reached a suitable age, and 
his education was conducted with care in the best schools at Zanesville until 
he was 16 years of age, when he became an assistant in his father's hardware 
business. This he has made the vocation of his life, and he has pursued it 
without intermission for 34 years (1885). It is probably safe to venture the 
statement that he is the senior hardware merchant in the county of Whiteside. 
Entering his father's store in 1851, he continued in the position of salesman 
and assistant six years, and in 1857 came to Morrison and began business 
independently on the site now occupied by the Revere House. Almost 
simultaneously he began to make arrangements to establish himself permanently, 
and in the same year he built the store he now occupies. It is constructed of 
brick, is three stories in height above the cellar, and is connected with a 
large warehouse, of brick, located on the railroad. In 1859 he admitted his 
brother, Frank H., to a partnership. (A biographical sketch of the latter may 
be found elsewhere in this volume.) The business of the Robinson brothers is 
extensive, and includes all the branches common to establishments of similar 
scope and purpose. Their stock comprises full and complete lines of hardware 
and agricultural implements and machinery. They make a specialty of farm 
machinery of every description. Their business requires the aid of three 
assistants. Mr. Robinson was united in marriage, Dec. 6, 1859, to Anna Gibbs, 
and they have had six children: William G. was born Sept. 6, 1860, and is a 
clerk in his father's store; Paul, born Jan. 29, 1862, is engaged in the same 
capacity; Mary C. was born May 2, 1864; Maud was born May 6, 1870. Two 
children died in infancy. Mrs. Robinson was born in 1841, in Steuben Co., N. 
Y., and is the daughter of Alanson and Sophronia Gibbs. She was brought up at 
Lyndon, this county, to which place her parents moved from New York when she 
was about six years of age. Her education was completed at the seminaries of 
Mt. Carroll and Rockford, Ill.

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Whiteside County, Illinois, Containing Full-
page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens of the County. Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1885.

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