Houghton County MI Archives Biographies.....Robinson, Orrin W August 1834 - September 1907
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Author: Michigan Historical Commission,  1902

Michigan Historical Collections
By Michigan Historical Commission, Michigan State Historical Society, Michigan 
Pioneer and Historical Society, Pioneer Society of the 

State of Michigan
Published by Michigan Historical Commission, 1903
Vol.32 1902
Original from the University of Michigan
Digitized Jun 20, 2006 - Google Books - http://books.google.com
Page 387
* Orrin W. Robinson, of Chassell, Houghton county, was born in Claremont, 
August 12, 1834, where he acquired a district school education.  At the age 
of 19 years he moved to Ontonagon, Mich., where he 
remained two years, employed in the mines, and then started for Green Bay, Wis.,
making an overland trip with snow shoes, while the provisions and blankets 
were carried by dog-train.  He camped in the woods 
nights, taking about two weeks to make the trip.  From 
Green Bay he went to Kossuth county, Iowa.  Returning to Hancock, Mich., 
he engaged as receiving and shipping clerk for the Quincy 
mine, which occupation he followed 12 years.  In 1873 he organized the 
Sturgeon River Lumber Co., and built mills at Hancock, which 
were removed to Chassell in the fall of 1887, and he has 
been superintendent of the company since its organization.  He has served as 
deputy collector of customs, superintendent of the poor 
for Houghton county; was delegate to the national convention in 1892; served 
in the house in 1895 and the senate in 1897; and 
elected lieutenant governor in 1899.  Closely identified with all the public 
improvements of his district, he has witnessed the change 
from a frontier wilderness to a civilized and prosperous country.



Additional Comments:
NOTE:   This is a small biographical sketch.  Other larger biographies are 
available as indicated below.  This publication (page 387), as well as page 
1231 in "A history of the northern peninsula of Michigan and its people" by 
Alvah L. Sawyer, Vol III, 1911; Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago 1911, 
clearly state born August 12, 1834, however another publication states born 
August 14, 1834 - and died September 6, 1907 ie.:
- Biographical Sketches of Leading Citizens of Houghton, Baraga, and Marquette 
Counties; Biographical Publishing Company, Chicago, Illinois 1903 page 101.   
Both publications are available online at the University of Michigan Digital 
Library at http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/micounty/

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