Bio of Robinson, John H. (b.1830) Wabasha Co., MN
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Robinson, John H., (page 1041), was born in Shoreham, Addison county,
Vermont, October 30, 1830. His parents were Samuel and Amanda (Phelps)
Robinson. Young Robinson was brought up on a farm and received a fair
common school education. He remained at home until the year 1854. During
two years of this time he worked his father's farm. February 28, 1854, he
married Cynthia Day, a native of New York State, and the following season
came to Wisconsin, and worked at the carpenter's trade in Oshkosh and
Waupun for two years. Not feeling fully satisfied with western life, he
returned to the east in 1856, and tried his hand at farming in St.
Lawrence county, New York; but not finding as large a degree of prosperity
there as his fancy had pictured it while he was pounding nails in Oshkosh,
he again set his face westward, and continued to journey in that direction
until he had crossed the mighty Mississippi and reached the beautiful
promised land of Greenwood prairie. His first claim, however, he took in
the grub-land of Highland township on section 30. He continued to reside
on this claim until the spring of 1866, when he bought a farm of one
hundred and sixty acres just west of Plainview village, and removed his
family thereto. Mr. Robinson has been a member of the Plainview board of
supervisors, and is a member of the Plainview lodge of Odd-Fellows. His
first wife died August 8, 1871, leaving two sons, viz: Merrill A. (Prof.
Robinson), of Plainview, and Orrin L. (Prof. Robinson) of Mantorville.
July 3, 1874, Mr. Robinson married a second time, to Mattie Day, of
Plainview, by whom he has two children, viz: Frederick J. and Orie E.