When Charles Cecil Robinson was born on 13 November 1907, in Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois, United States, his father, Claude William Robinson, was 35 and his mother, Martha Jane Huffaker, was 27. He married Helen Hannah Nickey in 1924, in Urbana, Champaign, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Monterey, Monterey, California, United States in 1950 and Seaside, Monterey, California, United States in 1950. He died on 28 March 1953, in San Diego, San Diego, California, United States, at the age of 45, and was buried in Monterey, Monterey, California, United States.
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Known as the National Bureau of Criminal Identification, The Bureau of Investigation helped agencies across the country identify different criminals. President Roosevelt instructed that there be an autonomous investigative service that would report only to the Attorney General.
When W. D. Boyce was visiting London, he encountered a boy that helped him find his destination. The boy refused the tip that Boyce offered to him and told him that he was just doing his daily good turn. Being inspired, Boyce incorporated the Boy Scouts of America to help teach young men how to have an attitude of service always. Since its foundation, The Boy Scouts of America has become one of the largest Scouting organizations in the United States. Around 110 million people have been participants at some time in their life. The BSA was established to help young people make better choices in life and showing selflessness by serving the community.
The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
English (Lancashire and Yorkshire): patronymic from the Middle English personal name Robin , a pet form of Robert , + -son. This surname is also very common among African Americans.
French: from a pet form of the personal name Robin .
West Indian (including Haiti) and Guyanese: most likely not (only) of English or French origin as in 1 above and 2 above, but also, if not mostly, from the related name of the famous Daniel Defoe's literary character Robinson Crusoe (from a novel first published in 1719).
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