ROBINSON, Ebenezer J.

ROBINSON, WOOD, YOUNG

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 1/19/2014 at 05:30:44

Biography ~ Ebenezer J. Robinson

"Biographical and Historical Record of
Ringgold and Decatur Counties, Iowa"
(Lewis Publishing Company (1887)), pp. 544-45:

Ebenezer Robinson, of Lamoni, Iowa, has been a resident of Decatur County since the autumn of 1873, when he made his home on section 16, Fayette Township. He at that time bought two improved farms in that section, each containing 160 acres, and later added an additional eighty acres. He also owns 120 acres of timber land in Harrison County, Missouri. His parents, JOSEPH and MARIA (WOOD) ROBINSON, were natives of Vermont and New York respectively. They were married in Oneida County, New York, and there the subject of this sketch was born, October 19, 1835. In the spring of 1841 the family removed to Hancock County, Illinois, where they joined the Latter-Day Saints. The father was a man of large means, and the expulsion of the Saints form Nauvoo, Illinois, was disastrous to him financially, although he managed to save much of his property, and is quite wealthy. The family on their way to Salt Lake City, spent two winters where Omaha now stands. The subject of this sketch grew to manhood at Farmington, Utah Territory. In 1848 he renounced Mormonism as taught by BRIGHAM YOUNG and his apostles, and later the Latter-Day Saints, of which he is still a member. He was engaged in stock-raising in the mountains of Montana and Utah, where he spent twelve or thirteen years. In 1861 he began farming and stock-raising in Alameda County, California. He was married to CHLOE A. YOUNG, a native of Hancock County, Illinois, and a daughter of DANIEL P. YOUNG. They have seven children living - DELMER E., AMELIA M., ALICE ELNORA, MARTHA, FREDERICK D., AMANDA C., and WALTER Y. Their second child, ALBUM, died in California in his third year, and MARION, their sixth child, died in Fayette Township, Decatur County. In 1886, Mr. ROBINSON erected a fine residence in Lamoni, where he now resides. He has three dwelling houses on his farms in Fayette Township, two and a half miles from Lamoni. He has stocked most of his property, and has rented all of it on five-year leases. In his political views Mr. ROBINSON casts his suffrage with the Republican party.

Transcribed by Sara LeFleur, Decatur County Historial Society Musuem, January of 2014