When Alice Almira Robinson was born on 14 May 1864, in Farmington, Davis, Utah, United States, her father, Oliver Lee Robinson, was 30 and her mother, Lucy Miller, was 27. She married George Franklin Richards on 9 March 1882, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 10 daughters. She lived in Tooele, Tooele, Utah, United States in 1900 and Salt Lake, Utah, United States for about 30 years. She died on 21 April 1946, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
"While attending the play ""Our American Cousin"" in Ford's Theatre, actor John Wilkes Booth climbed up the stairs to the suite that President Abraham Lincoln and his wife resided. Once inside the suite Booth pulled out his pistol and shot The President in the head. In critical condition The President was carried out of the theatre for urgent medical attention. Unfortunately, Lincoln died the following day. Abraham Lincoln was the first American president to be assassinated, and his death caused a period of national mourning both in the North and South."
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
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).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesMy mother’s parents were George F. Richards and Alice Almira Robinson Richards. I was very proud to be the grandson of an apostle. Once, when I was visiting my cousin Taylor Silver, who lived in …
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