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Born 1821, Bourbon county
From History of Boone County, Missouri (1882)
ALEXANDER C. ROBINSON.
Alexander C. Robinson, is a son of John M. and Lucian (Butler) binsou, and was born January 8th, 1821, in Bourbon county, Kenky. His father was born in South Carolina, February lath, 1800, I came with his parents to Kentucky when quite young. He came Howard county, Missouri, in the fall of 1821, and lived for a short e near Old Franklin, and afterwards removed to Boone county, died October 12th, 1862, and is buried at Ashland church in Howcounty, Missouri. Mrs. Robinson, the wife of John M., was born luaiy 10, 1802, in Davidson county, Tennessee; she also went to tucky when a child. They had ten children, five boys and five Is; Alexander C, our subject, being the second. In 1841, Alexanwent to school at the Robnett school house for one year. In fall of 1844 he, like all young men, concluded to see more of the world, and accordingly set out for Louisiana, where he remained for some time in the interior of the State, and then to New Orleans. From New Orleans he went to Nashville, Tennessee, where he was employed as a guard of the State prison until the spring of 1847, when he came back to Boone county, and has remained here ever since. In 1852 he moved to the northern portion of the county, where he lived for about twelve years. In February, 1864, he moved out upon the Two-mile prairie, and lived there five years. In 1869 he moved upon the farm where he is now living, a farm of one hundred and sixty acre, ten and one-half miles northeast of Columbia. December 19th, 1850, he married Miss Mary J., daughter of John O., and Jemima (Conley) White. By this union they have had nine children, three girls and six boys. John D. E. W. is now with White, Barron & Co., of Centralia; James W., of Stephens' Store, Callaway county, Missouri, general merchandise; Thomas O., who is of the firm of Loeb, Cook & Co., grocery store, Columbia; Wm. B., who is also at Stephens' Store; Alexander (deceased), Lucy J., Isaac N., Annie M. and Mattie. Mr. and Mrs. Robinson are members of the Christian church, and are considered by all as worthy of all confidence in their social and business relations.
As printed in History of Boone County, Missouri (1882). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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