Bio of Robinson, Samuel (b.1828) Wabasha Co., MN
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This bio comes from "HISTORY OF WABASHA COUNTY" 1884.
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Robinson, Samuel, (page 1060), son of John and Jane Robinson, was born in
Ballymana, Ireland, in 1828. He was raised on the farm, and received a
common school education. In 1847 he came to Sullivan county, New York,
where he remained till 1857, when he removed to Will county, Illinois, and
in 1859 he came to this township, settling on section 36. He owns ninety
acres of land. In politics he is a thorough democrat. He married Elizabeth
Bailey, her parents being natives of Ireland. They have five children:
Andrew, Thomas, John, Robert and Phebe.
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This bio comes from "HISTORY OF WABASHA COUNTY" 1920.
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Robinson, Samuel (p. 593), who was a pioneer settler in Zumbro and Mazeppa
Townships, where he developed a good farm, was born in Dublin, Ireland, in
1827, and came to America in 1842, settling first in Sullivan County, New
York, where, until 1856, he worked as a farm laborer. He then came west to
Will County, Ill., where he remained for about two years, at the end of
this time coming to Wabasha County, Minn. There were very few settlers
here at the time, but plenty of Indians, and the land was nearly all wild,
but a few acres having been broken here and there where a pioneer had
built a little log cabin in the wilderness and started to carve out a
home. Mr. Robinson himself became on of these early home builders, buying
80 acres of wild land from the state in section 36, Zumbro township (town.
109, range 14). Later he purchased and added to his farm 50 acres in
section 16, town. 109, range 14, and 10 acres in section 31, town. 109,
range 13, these two latter tracts being in what is now Mazeppa Township.
Through long continued industry he cleared and improved his place and
erected thereon substantial buildings, and this he did through a long
period of financial stringency without placing any mortgage or incumbrance
on the property. Politically he was a strong Democrat. In 1859, the year
following his advent in the county, Mr. Robinson married Elizabeth Bailey,
who was born in Tipperary, Ireland, in 1831, but who was of Scotch
ancestry, as he also was. Their happy married life was terminated by Mr.
Robinson's death on October 1, 1900. Mrs. Robinson survived him a number
of years, passing away October 18, 1916, at the age of 82. He was reared a
Presbyterian, but never affiliated with any church after coming to the
country. Mr. and Mrs. Robinson were the parents of five children, all born
on the farm, namely: Andrew B., born in 1860, who died unmarried June 4,
1882; Thomas, born in 1861, now a retired farmer in Rochester, Minn.;
John, born in 1862, a prosperous farmer at Hammond, this county; Robert,
born in 1865, now a carpenter in Winona; and Phebe, now Mrs. R. F. Wahler
of Winona.