Brief Life History of William R
When William R Robinson Sr was born on 6 June 1832, in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States, his father, Ruel W. Robinson, was 30 and his mother, Rhoda Thayer, was 29. He married Sarah Ann Perrin on 21 July 1851. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in Nankin Township, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1850 and Livonia, Wayne, Michigan, United States for about 20 years. He died on 6 January 1907, in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Westland, Wayne, Michigan, United States.
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- William Robinson in household of Ambrose Robinson, "United States Census, 1850"
- William R. Robinson, "Michigan Deaths and Burials, 1800-1995"
- William Robinson in entry for William Robinson Jr, "Michigan Deaths and Burials, 1800-1995"
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1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
1848 · State Capital Moves to Lansing
Detroit fought to maintain the Capitol within its jurisdiction, but communities in the growing western part of the state had reasons for wanting a move inland. This move would make the Capitol more easily defensible in case of another war between the British and the U.S. like that of the War of 1812. Proponents of moving the capitol also sought to make the government more accessible to the people throughout the state. Construction began in 1847 on a temporary state capitol building in Lansing. It was a simple two-story wood frame structure, painted white with green wooden shutters and topped by a tin cupola. The building was sold when the permanent capitol building opened in 1879 and, like the first capitol, it was later destroyed by a fire in 1882.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
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.
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