Individuals marked with a red dot are direct ancestors of L Robinson

Robinson, Minnie Gertrude (b. May 1879)

Note: !INFO SOURCES:
BIRTH: Date and place from census.
1880 CENSUS: Address; Cedar, Boone Co., NE.
Age 1 in 1880. At home.
Enumerated with parents.
Roll T779 #37, VOL 1, ED 126, SH 7, LN 37.
CENSUS 1900, Cedar Pct., Boone Co., NE, #1240917, ED 17, Sh 7, 1 Jun 1900, family 189; enumerated with parents and 8 siblings, Minne G. b May 1879, 21, single b NE, schoolteacher.

Note: BURIAL: Sunrise Cemetery, Cedar Rapids, Boone, NE; p 65, ln 26; Herbert L. Robinson, b 25 Aug 1860, d 1922 in CA.

!INFO SOURCES:
BIRTH: Date and place from census.
1880 CENSUS: Address; Cedar, Boone Co., NE.
Age 19 in 1880. Single.
Enumerated with parents.
Roll T779 #37, VOL 1, ED 126, SH 7, LN 3.
CENSUS 1900, Cedar Pct., Boone Co., NE, #1240917, ED 17, Sh 7, 1 Jun 1900, family 311; enumerated with wife and 7 kids; Herbert Robinson, b Aug 1860, age 39, m 14y, b WI.

Note: !INFO SOURCES:
BIRTH: Date and place from census.
1880 CENSUS: Address; Cedar, Boone Co., NE.
Age 10 in 1880. At home. Attending school.
Enumerated with parents.
Roll T779 #37, VOL 1, ED 126, SH 7, LN 4.
LAST UPDATE: 29 Mar 1994.

NOTES:
Came from Donna's stuff.

Note: !BURIAL: Sunset Cemetery, Cedar Rapids, Boone, NE; p 26, ln 5, Edwin F. Robinson, b 20 Apr 1871 (no death date given); buried next to wife Laura J. CONFLICT: Using b of 24 Apr 1871, based on his autobiography.

!INFO SOURCES:
BIRTH: Date and place from census.
1880 CENSUS: Address; Cedar, Boone Co., NE.
Age 9 in 1880. At home. Attending school.
Enumerated with parents.
Roll T779 #37, VOL 1, ED 126, SH 7, LN 5.
CENSUS 1900, Cedar Rapids Village, Boone Co., NE, #1240917, ED 17, Sh 1, 1 Jun 1900, family 126; head, enumerated with wife, and neice Anna L. B. Reid.

AUTOBIOGRAPHY:
I, Edwin Farmer Robinson, was born the 24th day of April 1871 near Richland Center, Wisc. I was the youngest son of Jane Sarah Robinson and James Henry Robinson. We moved from Wisc. to Boone County Nebraska when I was a year and a half old. We traveled in a covered wagon with a horse team and a second wagon with an oxen team. Located on a homestead where I spent all my time until I was 22 years old. We lived in a dugout until father built a sod house consisting of 3 large rooms, also a sod barn. Father was the first postmaster in this community (Cedar Rapids). A position he held for 20 years.
My early life was spent on the farm and I attended school 3 months each year, finished the 8th grade. The school house was of sod construction right on the farm until a town formed joining the farm. The balance of my schooling was in a Baptist Church and later a frame school building that was built in town. On December 21, 1892 I was married to Laura Jane Brayton and moved to the town of Cedar Rapids. She was the daughter of George Brayton and Ruth B. We rented a house for a year until I built a home. I worked at the plastering trade the first 4 years I was married. The next 10 years in a flour mill and grain elevator. The next couple of years I worked for a hardware and lumber company.
(children)
Agnes Leon (Robinson) was born May 5, 1895,
Donald Edwin Robinson, Dec. 10, 1900,
Cleda Isabelle (Robinson), born March 10, 1905,
My wife passed away the 11th day of March 1905.
(second wife and family)
I married Goldie Mable Walker the 26th day of July 1906. In 1908, May, we left Nebraska and came to Medford, Oregon. I went to work for the Warner, Workman and Gore grocery store. I immediately built the home at 836 Taylor street which has been our home ever since.
(children)
James Franklin Robinson was born December 25th, 1911,
Evelyn Marie (Robinson), September 18, 1916,
Minnie Pearl (Robinson), Feb. 23, 1918,
Philip Eric (Robinson), May 18, 1922,
Doris Mae (Robinson), Feb. 15, 1924,
Robert Edwin (Robinson), March 20, 1928.
Donald (Edwin Robinson) passed away July 17, 1926.
Minnie Pearl (Robinson) passed away January 13, 1921.
Emily Martha Weiss,(correct spelling Weis), Goldies mother came to live in a small house we built on our place. She passed away the 29th of December, 1933. ( Emily was the wife of James Fredrick Walker, they lived in Cedar Rapids NE., after James death Emily married Jacob Weis who also died in Cedar Rapids, some time later she came to live with Edwin and Goldie.) I worked at the grocery about 8 years. I worked 2 years for John Brownley in a grocery store. worked for Ulrich and Ryan Mercantile store about 3 years. I then went back to milling at the Rogue Valley Milling company where I worked for 10 years. One summer I spent at Diamond Lake assisting the manager and another year I did milling and feed mixing at the Farm Bureau Exchange. The next 10 years I worked for Pinnacle Packing Company. 2 years as clerk in the post exchange at Camp White. ( Camp White was an army post outside of Medford during WW2 that is now the town of White City.) I worked in the mill 11 hours a day for $1.25 per day, after 3 1/2 years I got $40.00 per month then in about 4 years it was raised to $50.00.
In the plastering work I worked for my self. Worked with Tom Robinson making about $5.00 a day. The work was not steady.
At the hardware co. I made $50.00 dollars a month. At Warner Workman and Gore I made $50.00 per, before I left Warner W. & G. my wages were finally raised to $70.00.
The summer I spent at Diamond Lake I worked 7 days a week 16 hours a day for $150.00.
The job at Camp White paid $182.50. I joined the Royal Arcanum Lodge in Nebr. and the AOUW, Ancient Order of United Workmen. These I gave up when I came to Oregon. I joined the Knights of Pythias Lodge in 1917, was initiated in the Knight Rank in the Crater of Wizard Island at Crater Lake. My membership has been continous since that time , a period of over 27 years. I was elected Keeper of Record and Seals, a position I held for 20 years. Having held the office of K of R and Seals for over a period of 5 years I was entitled to the honor the highest office the lodge could bestow.
I was also a member of the D.O.K.K., 20years, I was Treasurer of this organization for 7 years and accordingly was entitled to highest honors.
The year I spent at Diamond Lake we drove around by trucks,3. There were 5 of us. We left the trucks at the Pelican Bay Lumber Camp and went on skis from there. It was the first time I had ever been on skis and it took us about 18 hours to cover 14 miles over the Cascade range and down to Diamond Lake, there was an average of 5 1/2 feet of snow. It was about the 10th of April when we left Medford, we shoveled snow trails around to the cabins and we had to jack up 4 or 5 of them that the snow had leveled, cleaned cabins, cleared the water system, and went work clearing the road to town. I was the 23 of June before the road was open so that the first car could get in there from town.
We were building cabins,6, and sewer and septic tanks , new water system, and cutting wood, I was the general manager over these crews, the store, and filling station. We built nearly 100 new boats the same year. It was about October 1st when I came out that fall.
One day when I was 5 years old I went visiting at school. I was taking a nap in one of the seats. I woke up when every one started running out of the room. The dust was sifting down through the roof until I couldn't hardly see. I caught my toe on one of the seats and pitched against one of the seats on the other side and broke my nose. It was an earthquake. The only one ever known to be there.

In the early days when we lived in the dugout until we could get the sod broken up and ready to farm, the men folks went away from home 50 miles of more to work to earn a little money, often times they didn't
leave anybody at home but mother and the kids that was under 9 or 10 years old. The settlement that we lived in was located between 2 indian reservations, the Sioux tribe on one side and the Pawnee's on the other. Ordinarily they didn't molest the white people any, but they were generally at warfare between the 2 tribes. They would usually have out 2 or 3 scouting parties all dressed up with war paint and on fine horses. These scouting parties didn't ask for food, they just came in and demanded it. The women would make biscuits, fry meat, and cook them dinner, and then the indians would bring out old sacks and want more biscuits and meat fried to fill the sacks.
When these scouting parties returned to thier tribe and made a report they would plan a raid on the other tribe. They would some times get close enough even in the day time to shoot the squaws and herd boys that guarded the stock belonging to the other tribe. If not they made thier raids at night. These were the times when the indians felt justified in stealing the settlers horses. They wouldn't take a horse that they couldn't ride and we had one neighbor who had a big team of mules and they would be thrown off and they would laugh and finallly they turned them loose, they stole 4 other teams that night.
They ordinairly didn't bother to steal any thing but horses so they could get away fast but the government furnished guns and amunition to defense parties in each settlement and often the cattle and horses were recovered.
One time at my sisters place about a half mile from our home my brother and I after Sunday dinner thought we would ride over to thier place. We rode directly past the house to tie up the horses in the barn and we didn't see anything irregular. We came back from tying up the horses and got within ten feet of the house and there stood a big indian spear in the ground. We made a dash for our horses to get away and as we was leaving my sisters husband saw us and stopped us. We went in and there was a big fat indian with a sack which my sister was filling with biscuits. My sisters husband made him understand that he had given us boys a bad scare and he laughed until his old fat sides shook. He said he would no hurt papoose. He had papoose so high and so high and so high, showing us how high.
When I was about 2 1/2 years old, one summer when I was sick a great deal there was an old squaw that said I was going to die and wanted my mother to ler her have me to raise. The old squaw wanted to give me angle worms. It seemed that for a physic they dug the worms and washed the dirt from them and put them in water and drank them. If you couldn't drink them they cooked them for you.

Edwin Farmer Robinson passed away on Friday, 28th day of June 1946
This was dictated to his daughter Evelyn Marie Robinson shortly before his death. This was typed from the original documents which are 3 old pages of 3 ring note book paper. All additions are in parenthees added only for clarification by Jim Grant.

Note: NICKNAME: Tony.

RESIDENCE: As of Dec 1998, 243 Hilltop Dr., Hamilton, MT 59840, and working at the Univ. of Montana.

Note: NOTES:
Info for this individual came from Donna Robinson Hadley.

Note: !INFO SOURCES:
1850 CENSUS; Address; Washington Twp., Wyoming Co., PA.
3 in 1850. Enumerated with parents.
Roll M432 #838, PG 23, LN 1.
LAST UPDATE: 28 Mar 1994.

NOTES:
Individual from Donna. We missed this one.

Note: !INFO SOURCES:
1850 CENSUS; Address; Washington Twp., Wyoming Co., PA.
1 in 1850. Enumerated with parents.
Roll M432 #838, PG 23, LN 2.

NOTES:
Came from Donna's stuff. We missed this one.

Note: 1880 CENSUS: Moccasin, Effingham, Illinois
Source: FHL Film 1254205 National Archives Film T9-0205 Page 303C
listed with parents and 7 siblings;
Clarrah HARRISON Dau Female Single White age 5 b IL
Occ: At Home Fa: OH Mo: OH.

NOTES:
This individual came from Donna's stuff.

Note: BURIAL: Cemetery Records of Red Willow County, Nebraska, 978.2843 V3r, indiex lists George H. Harrison 1877-1948, p 1.

1880 CENSUS: Moccasin, Effingham, Illinois
Source: FHL Film 1254205 National Archives Film T9-0205 Page 303C
listed with parents and 7 siblings;
George HARRISON Son Male Single White age 2 b IL
Occ: At Home Fa: OH Mo: OH.

NOTES:
This individual came from Donna's stuff.

Note: NOTES:
This individual came from Donna's stuff.

1880 CENSUS: Moccasin, Effingham, Illinois
Source: FHL Film 1254205 National Archives Film T9-0205 Page 303C
listed with parents and 7 siblings;
Maud HARRISON Dau Female Single White 6M b IL
Occ: At Home Fa: OH Mo: OH.

Note: !INFO SOURCES (Donna):
BIRTH: Census.
1870 CENSUS: Address; To be researched.
1880 CENSUS: Address; Cedar, Boone Co., NE.
Age 15 in 1880. Single. At home. Attending school.
Enumerated with parents & siblings.
Roll T779 #37, VOL 1, ED 126, SH 8, LN 3.
1900 CENSUS: Address; To be researched.
LAST UPDATE: 29 Mar 1994.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: History of Boone County, Nebraska 1871-1985 Vol 1, pub 1986 by Curtis Media Corp, Dallas, TX, 978.251 H2b V1;
p 581, sec F595, Robert T Robinsin, by Neva Robinson (by Compendium of History Reminiscense & Biog., 1912);
...Pryer B., who is married, has three children and lives in Cedar Rapids;...

Note: BURIAL: Boone County Cemeteries, Nebraska vol 4, 978.251 V3b v4; Sunset Cemetery, Cedar Rapids, Boone, NE; p 32, ln 37; Schuyler C. Robinson, b 23 Jan 1868, d 23 Jan 1943.

CENSUS 1880; Cedar, Boone, Nebraska
Source: FHL Film 1254743 National Archives Film T9-07
Enumerated with parents and 5 siblings;
Schuylor ROBINSON Son M S W 11 WI
Occ: At Home Fa: IN Mo: IN.
CENSUS 1900, Cedar Pct., Boone Co., NE, #1240917, ED 17, Sh 7, 1 Jun 1900, family 155; enumerated with wife and 3 kids, b Jan 1870, age 30, m 7, b WI, Farmer.

BIOGRAPHY: Cedar Rapids, Nebraska 1884-1984, 978.251/C1 H2C;
p 73, lists Schuyler Robinson as one of the contributors to the new Methodist Church built in 1914.

NOTE: There were other notes on Schuyler, but they were inadvertantly erased. These were from a census, and more...

Note: !INFO SOURCES (Donna):
BIRTH: Census.
1870 CENSUS: Address; To be researched.
1880 CENSUS: Address; Cedar, Boone Co., NE.
Age 3 in 1880. Single. At home.
Enumerated with parents & siblings.
Roll T779 #37, VOL 1, ED 126, SH 8, LN 8.
CENSUS 1900, Cedar Pct., Boone Co., NE, #1240917, ED 17, Sh 7, 1 Jun 1900, family 297; Euretta B., enumerated with parents, 2 sister & uncle-in-law; b Dec 1876, age 23, single, b NE, parents b IN.

Note: BIRTH: IGI-1993 Edition.

ANF MM3F-D4 b 1770 in Lunenburg Co, VA; d 1818 in Franklin Co, KY.
From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996.

SOURCE: Donald Matson, E-mail donmatson@hotmail.com, 11/98; I've never seen any data that specifically tied Elias Farmer's
birth down to 1770. I have 1770-75 in probably Wash. or Montg. Co.
Md. & on their way to Ky. they lived a short while in Loudoun Co.,
Va. not Lunenberg.
Elias died Jul.-Oct. 1818 Shelby Co.,Ky. He supposedly drowned in
Salt River while trying to save a child. His estate papers are
filed in Shelby Co.,Ky. He & Sarah Robertson were married 10/13/
1795 in Franklin Co.,Ky.

Note: BIRTH: IGI-1993 Edition.

From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996; b 11 Dec 1774 in Chesterfield Co, Virginia; d 1 Aug 1846 in Monroe Co, IN.

SOURCE: Donald Matson, E-mail donmatson@hotmail.com, 11/98;
Sarah is buried here in Mt. Carmel Cem.,
Bean Blossom Twp.,Monroe Co.,In.

Note: !INFO SOURCES (Donna):
BIRTH: 2, pg 911-913.
MARRIAGE: 2, pg 911.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: 1. "Minklers in America: A Genealogy"
SLC FHC US/CAN BOOK #929.273 M665m. 29 Mar 1995
2. "The Palatine Families of NY"
SLC FHC US/CAN BOOK #974.7 D2j Vols 1 & 2.
LAST UPDATE: 7 May 1995.

Note: !INFO-SOURCES:
BIRTH: IGI-1993 Edition.
CHR: Reformed Church.

Note: !INFO-SOURCES:
BIRTH: IGI-1993 Edition.
CHR: Reformed Church.

Note: !INFO-SOURCES:
BIRTH: IGI-1993 Edition.
CHR: Reformed Church.