Sacramento County
Biographies
PETER M.
ROBINSON
PETER M. ROBINSON--A very interesting pioneer, who well merits his comfortable retirement, is Peter M. Robinson, of the attractive town of Perkins, a native of Illinois, where he was born on January 8, 1853. His parents were sturdy pioneers before him, and he thus inherited the best of brain and brawn calculated to assist him as a settler. He was brought to Sacramento as a baby by these early-timers, and so in time attended the public schools of the capital. After a while, his father came out to Mayhews and took up farming; and our subject continued with his father on the farm until 1883, when he was married to Miss Elizabeth Kelly, a native daughter, and a member of an old family.
Mr. Robinson commenced farming for himself soon after, and from the start he did well. He has leased several places, and now he has about seventy trim acres, devoted to fruit culture. It has been his pride and his ambition to follow the progress of agriculture in America, and to be among the first in Sacramento County to apply the latest methods, and to use the most up-to-date apparatus; and he has been rewarded with results far beyond those enjoyed by the average. He is a Democrat in matters of national political import, but he is a devoted, non-partisan supporter of whatever he believes to be best for the community or locality in which he lives and prospers.
Ethel, a daughter, has become Mrs. McKee; and Margaret is Mrs. George McDonell, of Perkins; while Ann, another daughter, is at home. James is farming for himself; and Loriene is teaching school. There are six grandchildren in the family circle.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With Biographical Sketches,
Pages 927-928. Historic Record Company,
Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.