ROBERTSON, George M., Iberia Parish, Louisiana
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GEORGE MARSH ROBERTSON, NEW IBERIA.--George Marsh Robertson was born in New
Iberia, December 11, 1851.  He is the son of William Robertson and Eliza A.
Marsh, the former a native of Tennessee, born 1819, and the latter a native of
Iberia parish, born September 26, 1825  William Robertson was a graduate of
West Point, and was a classmate at that place with U. S. Grant.  After leaving
West Point he was for a time engaged as recruiting officer in New York City. 
From there he was sent to Pensacola, Florida, and was there engaged in what is
known as the Florida War.  He died February 17, 1890.  Mrs. Robertson died in
1878.

George Marsh Robertson was the fifth of a family of ten children. He was
educated in Iberia parish, and at the age of sixteen he accepted a position as
clerk in the general superintendent's office of the Mississippi & Tennessee
Railroad in Memphis; there he learned telegraphy, and soon became the
superintendent's operator and depot ticket agent, which position he held until
the Memphis & Little Rock Railroad was finished, and went on the first
passenger train from Memphis to Little Rock to take the position of store and
time-keeper of that road, which positions he held for about a year, when the
general manager of the road appointed him auditor of accounts in the general
office at Little Rock, and he remained in that position until 1879, when he
returned to his old home in New Iberia, and has since then been engaged in the
fire insurance business with his father, who established the business in 1846. 
Mr. Robertson married Miss Belle Tate Oliver, of Memphis, Tennessee.  Mr.
Robertson's mother is a daughter of John C. Marsh, the one who operated first
the salt wells of Iberia parish, from which, many years after his death was
discovered the salt mines which have since been so noted.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section p. 129. 
Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing
Company.