When Claude William Robinson was born on 12 September 1872, in Illinois, United States, his father, William Taylor Robinson, was 25 and his mother, Alice Rebecca Mattingly, was 23. He married Martha Jane Huffaker about 1902, in Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He lived in Sand Ridge Twp, Menard, Illinois, United States in 1880. He died on 4 February 1925, in Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois, United States, at the age of 52, and was buried in Concord Cemetery, Sandridge Number 8 Precinct, Menard, Illinois, United States.
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In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
The country was in great economic distress in mid-1877, which caused many workers of the Railroad to come together and began the first national strike in the United States. Crowds gathered in Chicago in extreme number to be a part of the strike which was later named the Great Railroad Strike. Shortly after the strike began, the battle was fought between the authorities and many of the strikers. The conflict escalated to violence and quickly each side turned bloody.
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
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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