ROBINSON, Edgar R. - 1912 Bio (1877-1922)

ROBINSON, MOUNT, HOBART, ROBERTSON, GILBERT

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 9/27/2007 at 15:41:18

History of Jefferson County, Iowa -- A Record of Settlement, Organization, Progress and Achievement, Vol. II, Published 1912, S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., Chicago
Pages 17-18

Edgar R. ROBINSON, who for the past six years has been engaged in the real-estate business in Batavia, was born on a farm in Cannan township, Henry county, Iowa, six miles northeast of Mount Pleasant, on March 8, 1877. He is the youngest child born of the marriage of John Q. and Anna (MOUNT) ROBINSON, the father a native of Chillicothe, Missouri, but of Scotch (sic) extraction. Mr. ROBINSON came to Iowa in the early '60s, locating on a farm in Henry county, in the cultivation of which he engaged for forty years. At the expiration of that period he retired from active work to Mount Pleasant, where he lived for four years, whence he removed to Ottumwa and there he and his wife continue to reside. Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. ROBINSON, those besides our subject being May, who is living with her parents and Charles W., a farmer of Onawa, Iowa, who married Miss Mary HOBART of Mount Pleasant and has two children Ralph and May.

The first twenty years of his life Edgar R. ROBINSON spent beneath the parental roof. After graduating from the Mount Pleasant high school in 1896 he entered the Wesleyan University of that place, taking one year's collegiate work and a commercial course. He subsequently went to Texas where for one year he was engaged in the fruit business. Returning to Iowa at the end of that period he married and removed to a farm in Henry county, near New London. After cultivating his land for a year he went to Van Buren county, where he bought one hundred and sixty acres. He cultivated this farm until 1905 when he rented his place and came to Batavia to open a real-estate and fire insurance office. Progressive and enterprising Mr. ROBINSON has been successful in his business and now owns a highly improved farm in Locust Grove township near Batavia, this county.

On the 17th of January, 1900, Mr. ROBINSON was married to Miss Margaret ROBERTSON, a daughter of John S. and Elizabeth (GILBERT) ROBERTSON. The father at that time was engaged in the real-estate business in Mount Pleasant, but has since removed to La Grange, Illinois, where he and his wife are now residing. Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. ROBINSON: Mildred, who died at the age of fourteen months; and Carroll, who was born on the 18th of April, 1907.

Mr. and Mrs. ROBINSON are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. He is connected with the Masonic order being a member of Kilwinning Lodge, No. 198, A. F. & A. M., and the Odd Fellows, belonging to Ohio Lodge, No, 120, I. O. O. F., both of Batavia. He also holds membership in the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, Ottumwa Lodge, No. 347, and the Brotherhood of American Yeomen, being identified with the organization of Ottumwa. Mr. ROBINSON votes the republican ticket, but, although he is interested in all matters pertaining to the municipal welfare, has never been a candidate for political honors. He is one of the capable young business men of the town, whose future, as gauged by his past, gives every assurance of being most promising.

*Transcribed for genealogy purposes; I have no relation to the person(s) mentioned.