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ISAAC H. ROBINSON
Honored and respected in every class
of society, Isaac H. Robinson has been closely identified with the public life
of Stockton for over a quarter of a century, and his name is inscribed high on the
roll of its foremost citizens. He was
born on a California ranch near Santa Rosa, October 17, 1856, and until the age
of sixteen attended the district school in the neighborhood of his home and
during spare hours helped his father on the home place. The practical ranching experience enabled him
to obtain employment on other ranches in northern California and ten years of
his early manhood was thus spent. During
February, 1883, he arrived in Stockton and found work in the planing mill of P.
A. Buell, being thus occupied until he entered the Stockton police department
as patrolman, remaining in that position for two years; then for two years he
served as chief of police of Stockton.
He was then selected as deputy sheriff and served four years under Tom
Cunningham. Following this he was
elected to the position of city clerk of Stockton which he capably filled for
five and a half years. For the past
twenty years he has been in the office of the county treasurer and tax
collector and is now serving as chief deputy in that office with entire
satisfaction to the general public. He
gives his political allegiance to the Republican Party and has taken an active
part in local and state politics. His
fraternal memberships are with the Native Sons of the Golden West, Truth Lodge,
I. O. O. F., having passed through all the chairs of the latter organization,
and he has passed through all branches of Masonry up to and including the
thirty-second degree, and belongs to Aahmes Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., of
Oakland.
The marriage of Mr. Robinson united
him with Miss Henrietta Fortune, a native of San Francisco, and they have one
daughter, Mrs. C. H. Bouch of Los Angeles, who is the
mother of three sons. Mrs. Robinson is
well known in the community and has gained the warm regard which is ever given
in recognition of sterling worth.
Transcribed by Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
654. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 Gerald Iaquinta.
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