Robert Stewart Robinson (1815 - 1901)

Born 1 Oct 1815 in Pennsylvania

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Died 19 Feb 1901 at age 85 in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania

Biography

HON. ROBERT STEWART ROBINSON.

Hon. Robert S. Robinson, of North Huntingdon township, is of Scotch descent on his paternal side, both his grandfather, Isaac M. Robinson, and his grandmother, Margaret Moore Robinson, having been born in Scotland. They migrated to America in the latter part of the last century, and located in Allegheny County. They were the parents of five children, of whom Matthew, the father of Robert S., was the second in number. He was born about 1781, became a farmer and livestock dealer and raiser, and died in May, 1833. About 1809-10 he married Miss Rebecca Stewart, daughter of Robert Stewart, at that time and for years thereafter a great mail contractor on the Pittsburgh and Philadelphia turnpike, over which he ran several daily lines of the old-fashioned lumbering stage-coaches of the period. He became a man of wealth, founded Stewartsville in Westmoreland County, and owned a valuable estate in Pitts burgh. He died about 1850.

Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Robinson had eight children, of whom four are living : Rosanna, the wife of Jacob Bankert, of Westmoreland County ; Isaac M. ; Sarah C. ; and Robert B.; who was born, Oct. 1, 1815, on the farm adjoining the one on which he now resides.

He was educated in the subscription schools of the time, and spent most of his time on the homestead farm till he was about twenty-two years of age, when he entered upon general merchandising and stock- raising and dealing at Stewartsville. He pursued merchandising for three or four years, profitably for the times, and about 1843 gave up merchandising, and removing to a farm in the vicinity of Stewartsville, gave his attention to farming and stock-raising, which business he still pursues. He raises short-horn Dur- hams as his particular pride, taking the utmost inter est in pure breeds. He also raises good stocks of horses, the Kentucky driving horses and Clydesdale draught horses claiming his particular attention.

In politics Mr. Robinson is a Jeffersonian- Jackson I Democrat, but not an extremist. He holds himself as conservative in principle, and while he votes with his party for all good measures, reserves to himself the right to adjudge whether or not a partisan measure ought to command his support. He has held various township offices, which, however, he never sought In 1880 he was elected to the State Legislature for the term of two years, representing the district of Westmoreland County, and took his seat in January, 1881. He was assigned to the committees on agriculture, manufactures, elections, and others.

Jan. 25, 1842, he married Miss Ann Jane Ludwig, daughter of Jacob and Nancy Johnson Ludwig, of i North Huntingdon township, by whom he has had ! eight children : Henrietta, wife of Grabel H. Swoap, now residing in Missouri ; Matthew, who died in infancy ; Cyrus M., at present a coal merchant in Pittsburgh ; Nancy Jane, who became the wife of John R. Christy, of Allegheny County, and is now dead; Rebecca Stewart; William Stewart, married to Emma Beck, of Irwin ; Lucien G. ; and Florence May, deceased.

Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County Pennsylvania. John M. Gresham & Co. Samuel T. Wiley, published 1890. PAGE 560

(From Find-A-Grave)

Nancy, daughter of Robert and Jane (Ludwick) Robinson, of Westmoreland county, Pa.,

Sources

http://www.oocities.org/heartland/estates/1225/stewart.htm

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/80009359/robert-stewart-robinson

"United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4ZH-YR1 : 12 April 2016), Cyrus Robertson in household of R L Robertson, North Huntingdon, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, United States; citing family 382, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

"United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXRV-7Q1 : 12 December 2017), Robert S Robison, 1860.

"United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZ2R-1RP : 12 April 2016), Robert S Robison, Pennsylvania, United States; citing p. 6, family 40, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 552,965.

• Cushing, Thomas. History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania (A. Warner & Co., Chicago, 1889, p. 700-701)