Bios: ROBERT PAISLEY ROBINSON : Lawrence County, Pennsylvania

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  Biographical Sketches of Leading Citizens
  Lawrence County Pennsylvania
  Biographical Publishing Company, Buffalo, N.Y., 1897
  
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    ROBERT PAISLEY ROBINSON,
    
    [p. 404] a leading citizen of New Castle, was born in Union township,
  Lawrence Co., July 5, 1832, and is a son of George and Jane (Paisley)
  Robinson, and grandson of George Robinson, Sr. The latter was a shoemaker by
  trade, and plied that trade in his younger days, but followed agricultural
  pursuits the greater portion of his life. Our subject's mother was born in
  Lancaster County, and was a daughter of Robert Paisley, also a native of
  Lancaster County, and of Scotch-Irish descent. After coming to Lawrence
  County he bought a farm, and interested himself in agricultural labors to
  good advantage, providing liberally in this way for his children, and being
  widely respected as a representative farmer. In his politics, he was a
  Democrat of the old school. In the Seceder Church, of which he was a devoted
  and faithful member, he held the office of elder.
    
    Our subject's father was a citizen of Union township at the time of his
  marriage. When his parents came to Lawrence County, the country was still in
  its first stage of development; his mother's family crossed the mountains in
  what was known farther west at a later date as a prairie schooner, the
  members of the family walking the most of the time, as that was much less
  tiresome than riding in the rude conveyance, which was not provided with
  springs as are the wagons of to-day. When they came to the present site of
  New Castle, they found a clearing of no very great extent in the woods which
  covered mountains and valleys, and in the clearing there were less than a
  dozen houses, mostly built of logs. George Robinson was a carpenter by trade,
  and worked at it in New Castle and in the territory contiguous. He was a
  Republican in politics, and a member of the Seceders Church. He lived to be
  sixty years of age, dying about the year 1877. Two children were born to our
  subject's parents: Robert Paisley, and George, an insurance agent of the city
  of Pittsburg, Pa. George Robinson's second marriage was with Jane Best, but no
  children were added to the family.
    
    Our subject was reared in Union township, and attended the schools of New
  Castle. When sixteen years of age, he began to work in the nail mill, and
  continued to be thus employed for ten years. Then for three or four years he
  kept a news and tobacco store in New Castle, which he at length disposed of
  and accepted a proffered position in the shoe department of one of the
  largest stores in the city, where he remained some seven years. The two
  following years he held a similar position in another establishment in the
  city. By his long connection with the shoe trade, he has thoroughly
  acquainted himself with all matters considered to pertain in the least to
  that business, and has shown himself to be a very capable, efficient, and
  valuable clerk, for he is very popular, and has his circle of patrons who
  will buy of none but him.
    
    Mr. Robinson was married Dec. 16, 1855, to Jane Davis, daughter of Robert
  and Mary (Stewart) Davis. The father of Mary Stewart was a native of
  Scotland. The following seven children were born of our subject's first
  union: Robert H., deceased; George, deceased; Mary Jane, wife of J. H.
  Douglas, whose biography we have placed on another page; Annie, who married
  Joseph Harris, the proprietor of a meat market of New Castle; William, who
  married Esther McQuisten, and who is employed in the P. & W. R. R. freight
  office; Lizzie, deceased; and Charles, deceased. Mrs. Robinson died Sept. 24,
  1879, aged forty-seven years. Our subject was again married Oct. 12, 1893, to
  Louise M. Connell, who was born in Franklin County, and who is a daughter of
  William T. and Rebecca (Turner) Connell, the former a son of Edward and
  Ruhama (Todd) Connell, and the latter a daughter of James and Nancy Turner.
  Mr. and Mrs. Robinson are members of the Central Presbyterian Church, and
  interest themselves in all the work of that organization. Mr. Robinson has
  been a member of the Royal Templars since 1887. He is a Republican in
  politics.