Biographical Sketch of Duncan Robertson, Dent County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
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Duncan Robertson, farmer and stock raiser of Current Township, Dent
county, Mo., is a Scotchman, born in 1858, and is the son of Peter 
Robertson, who was also born in Scotland, in 1827, and died in 
Missouri January 3, 1886, whither he had come in 1868.  He was a
farmer and stock raiser, and was married in his native country to
Miss Margaret McLachlan, whose birth occurred in 1830.  She is yet
living, and resides in Texas county, Mo., with her son Peter.  Duncan
Robertson is the fifth of ten children, and lived with his parents
until twenty-two years of age, receiving about four years of school-
ing in his native land, and about the same in the United States.
After starting out in life for himself he began working on the grade
of the Memphis Railroad, being made overseer of a gang of men, and 
by economy and industry accumulated sufficient means to enable him 
to purchase the farm of 124 acres where he now resides.  He has 
sixty acres well improved, with good buildings and a thrifty young
orchard.  He is an industrious and enterprising citizen, and is an
accommodating neighbor.  He has always been a Democrat in politics,
and March 7, 1886, was married to Miss Nancy Stubbs, who was born
in Tennessee in 1868, by whom he has one child.  Mrs. Robertson is
a daughter of Andrew J. and Malinda Stubbs.

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