Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1915
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 928
WILLIAM A. ROBINSON

For more than forty years William A. ROBINSON has been a resident of Harrison county, Iowa. He has engaged in general farming and stock raising since reaching his majority, with the exception of a few years when he was in the real estate and loan business in Mondamin. He now has a fine farm of four hundred acres in Raglan township, on which he is residing. He stands high in the estimation of all those with whom he is acquainted and well merits the esteem in which he is held by his neighbors and fellow citizens.

William A. ROBINSON, the son of John and Mary (Winegarden) ROBINSON, was born on February 9, 1864, in Tuscola, Illinois. His parents were natives of Ireland and Canada, respectively, his father being of Scotch-Irish descent and his mother of German ancestry. John ROBINSON and his family came to Harrison county in October, 1874, and bought land in Morgan township, one mile east of Mondamin. Two children were born to John ROBINSON and wife, Clare and William A.

The education of William A. ROBINSON was received in the schools of Illinois and Harrison county, Iowa. He was ten years of age when his parents moved to this county and therefore completed his education in the schools of Mondamin, near which town his father had settled. He remained at home until he was married at the age of twenty-three and then bought a farm west of Mondamin, in section 32. He lived on this farm for fourteen years and then moved to Mondamin to engage in the real estate and loan business. He lived in Mondamin, following this line of work, for about twelve years, but finally decided to return to the farm. He bought four hundred acres of land in Raglan township in 1902 and, in September, 1913, moved to this farm. It is well adapted to general farming, and, under his skillful management, it bids fair to yield a very comfortable income year after year. He keeps full-blooded Duroc-Jersey hogs, Percheron horses and Plymouth Rock chickens. In fact, he is making a specialty of stock raising. He has six head of the best Percheron horses in the county. He is rapidly improving his farm and in the course of a few years bids fair to have one of the most attractive farms of the county.

Mr. ROBINSON was married in December, 1887, to Sarah Vandecar, who was born in Canada and is a daughter of C. E. and Sarah (OXBORROW) VANDECAR. Her parents were natives of Canada, of German and English descent, respectively. Mr. and Mrs. ROBINSON are the parents of four children, Mary, Earl, John and Irene. Mary is the wife of Everett GAMET, and lives in Morgan township and they have one son, Bruce, and one daughter, Vida. The other three children are still single and living with their parents.

Mr. ROBINSON is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Modern Woodmen of America. He is a Democrat, but is not a partisan in any sense of the word, preferring to vote for the best men, irrespective of their political affiliations. He has served on the school board of his township, but has never been willing to accept the nomination for any other position. He is an active and wide-awake farmer, deeply interested in everything pertaining to the welfare of the agricultural class, and is accorded a high place among the progressive farmers of the county.

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