Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Robertson, Daniel 
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Author: Genealogical and Biographical Record of Will County

DANIEL ROBERTSON, a pioneer of this county, residing at No. 206 North 
Broadway, Joliet, was born six miles from Cazenovia, Madison County, N. Y., 
May 11, 1821. He was one of four children who attained mature years, and of 
whom he and his brother, Robert, of San Bernardino, Cal., are the survivors. 
His father, Robert, was a son of John Robertson, a farmer near Aberdeen, 
Scotland, who brought the family to America in 1802 and settled six miles from 
Cazenovia, N. Y., where he cleared a farm from the timber land. Upon his death 
the estate passed into the hands of his son Robert, who was born in Scotland 
in 1787, served in the war of 1812, and died on the homestead at sixty-seven 
years of age. A man of energy he added to his possessions and became the owner 
of two hundred and fifty well-improved acres, which was a large farm for that 
section and day. He married Margaret, daughter of Daniel Robertson, a farmer 
near Aberdeen, Scotland, who brought the family to Madison County,  N. Y., in 
1803. Though bearing the same name the two Robertson families were not 
related. Mrs. Robertson died in Madison County when forty-seven years of age.

The boyhood years of our subject were passed on the home farm. In 1853 he made 
his first trip to Illinois and bought land in the town of Plainfield, this 
county. The next year he returned, settling here permanently, and buying two 
hundred acres of land, on which he began to raise grain. He bought the first 
reaper in Plainfield that would throw the grain off in bundles, and it was one 
of the first of the kind in the county. Disposing of his farm in 1869 he 
settled in Plainfield and started in the grocery and hardware business, 
continuing there for several years. In 1878, leaving his two sons in business 
in that place, he settled in Joliet, and, in partnership with J. R. Ashley and 
H. B. Scutt, began to manufacture barb wire, the firm title being H. B. Scutt 
& Co. For five years the firm manufactured barb and plain wire in the state 
penitentiary, and he was its superintendent part of the time. On the 
dissolution of the firm Mr. Robertson became a stockholder in the  Ashley Wire 
Company. Since then he has superintended his private interests.

In politics Mr. Robertson is independent. He was made a Mason in Plainfield 
Lodge, A. F. & A. M. His marriage took place in New York state and united him 
with Miss  Helen Morrison, who was born there of Scotch descent. They became 
the parents of two sons, the older of whom, Albert L., died in 1897; the 
younger, Eugene R., is engaged in the beet raising business at Chino, Cal.  
The older son married Sallie A. McCloskey, a native of Plainfield, and they 
had one daughter, Helen Marie, who, with her mother, resides with Daniel 
Robertson.

Additional Comments:
Genealogical and Biographical Record of Will County Illinois Containing 
Biographies of Well Known Citizens of the Past and Present, Biographical 
Publishing Company, Chicago, 1900

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