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Born 1855
From History of Coshocton County, Ohio: its past and present, 1740-1881. Containing a comprehensive history of Ohio; a complete history of Coshocton County ... a history of its soldiers in the late war ... (1881)
ROBINSON L. W., Coshocton; general superintendent Union Coal Mining Company; was born September 19, 1855, in Hudson, Ohio; son of Warren Robinson, a native of Connecticut, and Sarah Woodward, a native of Maine. When aboujfceven years of age he moved to New Haven mth his father's family to be educated, and received a good elementary education in the public schools of that city; was then placed under a private tutor for three years. At the age of eighteen years he entered, Yale college, and was graduated at the age of twenty-one. After completing his college course he engaged as engineer in the coal fields of Pennsylvania, and was transferred to this place to take general charge of the company's interests here, and do the engineering of the place. Mr. Robinson was married September 9, 1880, to Miss (DoUie) Ruth May, daughter of Lewis De Moss, Esq., of this city.
As printed in History of Coshocton County, Ohio: its past and present, 1740-1881. Containing a comprehensive history of Ohio; a complete history of Coshocton County ... a history of its soldiers in the late war ... (1881). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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