Biographical Sketch of W. A. Robey, Johnson County, Missouri,
Jackson Township. 

>From "History of Johnson County, Missouri," by Ewing Cockrell,
Historical Publishing Company, Topeka, Cleveland, 1918.
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W. A. Robey, one of the foremost agriculturists of Johnson county and 
most successful citizens of Jackson township, is a Johnson county boy.
He was born in this county in 1872, a son of B. F. and Ellen Robey, 
prominent pioneers of Johnson county who came to Missouri from Kentucky
just after the close of the Civil War and settled on a farm of 120 
acres in Jackson township.  To B. F. and Ellen Robey were born seven 
children:  W. A., the subject of this sketch; E. H., Holden, Missouri; 
Eunice, Los Angeles, California; R. E., Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Vic-
toria Katherine, Los Angeles, California; B. F., deceased; and Mrs.
Imogene Murray, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.  B. F. Robey was engaged in 
farming and stock raising for many years on his country place in Jack-
son township.  In the latter part of his life, he retired from the 
active labors of the farm and moved to Warrensburg, but Mr. Robey was
never contented with the life of an onlooker in the city and within a
short time the family returned to their homestead, and it was there 
the father died in 1902.  He was a citizen well known for his upright-
ness of character and business integrity.  B. F. Robey was guided by
the highest moral principles in all the affairs of life.  He invari-
ably followed the Golden Rule and as a result he received that which 
he richly merited, the respect and esteem of all who knew him.  D. T.
Boisseau was the instructor of the school held at Douglass schoolhouse
in Johnson county who helped W. A. Robey make his first efforts in ob-
taining a good common school education.  Mr. Boisseau, Warrensburg, was
later followed by Mr. Cook, as teacher of the Douglass school.  Mr.
Robey recalls Reverend Frank Russell, who was one of the leading prea-
chers when the subject of this review was a lad.  He also remembers how
proud he was of the first money he ever earned, for he had truly earned
every cent of it, cutting cord wood for the use of the Douglass school.
He invested the money in a calf and a pig and of them took exception-
ally good care.  Those two animals meant far more to the boy than a 
herd of 100 registered Shorthorns or pure-bred Poland Chinas mean to
the present day stockman.  They represented his total capital and there
was probably not an hour in the days which followed that he was not
thinking about them and planning.  The calf and pig throve remarkably
and in time were sold at a good profit.  Henceforth, W. A. Robey was
an avowed stockman to be and not many years passed until he was one of
the most enterprising stockdealers in Johnson county.  Thus was laid 
the foundation for his interests later in life, but Mr. Robey is of the
opinion that his school work suffered thereby.  When he was 21 years of
age, his first tract of land was given him by his father.  To the gift
of 40 acres Mr. Robey has added 40 acres more land and on this place in
Jackson township he is engaged in stock raising and general farming.
He has at the present time, in 1917, sixty head of high grade cattle
and 50 head of Poland China hogs.  He harvested, this past autumn, 450
bushels of wheat, 900 bushels of oats, and 60 tons of hay and he had 45
acres of his farm in corn.  Mr. Robey enlists all his energies in his
work and with persistent concentration pushes to a successful issue
everything he undertakes.  He is a firm advocate of crop rotation and
of the constant use of the manure spreader.  In 1910, he built the
residence, an attractive country home of eight large rooms.  The Robey
place is well improved and an abundance of water and plenty of good
farm buildings facilitates the handling of stock.  In November, 1901,
W. A. Robey and Nellie Phillips, daughter of M. A. Phillips, were 
united in marriage.  To this union have been born two sons, both of
whom are now attending school: Frank and Waldo. 

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