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

Wesley Robinson, a prominent farmer on section 12, Clyde Township, was born 
March 20, 1820, in the village of Manchester, Dearborn Co., Ind. Stephen 
Robinson, his father, was a native of Maine, and was of mixed English and 
Scotch lineage. He was married in the State of his nativity to Mahitabel 
Plumer, also born in the Pine-Tree State. She was of English extraction. Some 
years after their marriage they removed to Indiana, where the mother died, at 
the place already recorded as the birthplace of the son, in the spring of 
1842. In 1850 the father removed to Illinois and was a member of his son's 
household until his death, about 1857, when he was nearly 87 years of age. 
They had six children, five sons and a daughter. Mr. Robinson is the second 
oldest child, and remained under the authority of his parents until 1843, when 
he removed to Lee Co., Iowa, where he spent some years as a general laborer. 
He then yielded to a fancy to try life on the river, and he engaged in 
boating. His route terminated at New Orleans, where he has passed several 
winters after having been occupied as a boatman through the summers. In the 
spring of 1844, he came to Whiteside County and located near Sterling, where 
he fixed his residence. In April, 1847, he was married to Maria, daughter of 
Martin and Lois (Waite) Montgomery. Her father was of Irish extraction and was 
born in Vermont. Her mother was of mixed Welsh and French origin and was born 
in Rhode Island. After their marriage they settled in Roxbury, Delaware Co., 
N. Y., and at that place Mrs. Robinson was born, Nov. 6, 1818. In 1839 her 
father moved his worldly belongings to Illinois, his family accompanying him, 
with the exception of two children. The family located near Sterling. Three 
years after their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Robinson removed to Clyde Township, 
where they took up their abode on 241 acres of unbroken prairie, situated on 
sections 11, 12, 13 and 14. Nearly all the place is under cultivation and it 
is fairly stocked. Frank C. Robinson is the only child of his parents, and he 
was born Sept. 4, 1855. He was married March 20, 1878, to Millie E. Barrett. 
They located on his father's farm in Whiteside, where she became the mother of 
a child, who is also deceased. She died in Wheaton, Ill., in 1881, where she 
went for medical treatment. The son resides on the homestead. Father and son 
are Republicans in political principle.

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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