When William Cleveland Robinson was born in 1872, in Massachusetts, United States, his father, James Ramsey Robinson, was 49 and his mother, Annie M Perkins, was 24. He married Mabel E Shackley on 1 September 1900, in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States for about 30 years and Boston Ward 5, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States in 1920. He died on 18 January 1929, in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 57, and was buried in Roslindale, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States.
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Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
A federal law which reversed most of the penalties on former Confederate soldiers by the Fourteenth Amendment. The Act affected over 150,000 troops that were a part of the Civil War.
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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