Bio: JOHN M. ROBINSON., Caddo Parish La
Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville,  1890
Submitted by: Suzanne Shoemaker


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     JOHN M. ROBINSON, of the firm of J. M. & G. W. Robinson, is an extensive
planter at Bayou La Chute and police juror from Ward 8.  He was born in Red
River Parish, in 1857, being the son of George W. and Harriet A.
(Bludworth) Robinson, natives of North Carolina and Louisiana,
respectively.  His parents were married in Monroe, La., and soon settled in
Red River Parish, where the father died in 1879, and the mother in 1871.
The father was a successful planter, and took part in the Mexican War.  The
paternal grandfather of the subject of this sketch, John Robinson, died in
North Carolina, and the maternal grandfather, Milton Bludworth, was one of
the early settlers in Monroe, La., where he died about 1824.  He, too, was
a planter of great prominence.  Mr. Robinson was the third of the seven
children born to his parents, six of whom are now living.  He spent his
youth on a plantation, but received an excellent education, graduating from
the Washington and Lee University of Lexington, Va., where he learned civil
engineering, and at first devoted his attention to it.  He afterward rented
the home farm, and remained in Red River Parish until 1884.  At that date
he married Miss Mattie G. Hutchison, daughter of William J. Hutchison, one
of the old pioneers, and one of the most universally esteemed planters in
Caddo Parish.  In this place Mrs. Robinson was born.  To Mr. and Mrs.
Robinson have been born three children.  Since the war Mr. Robinson has
continued to reside on his present plantation.  He and his brother, George
W. Robinson, own a valuable plantation of Red River, containing 1,700 acres
of fine land under cultivation, and 3,800 acres in the whole estate.  They
are remarkably prosperous, and are doing about a $30,000 business each year.