The Robinsons and their kin folk . MRS. JOHN W. (ANN BUTLER) ROBINSON. From an oil painting made about 1850. was to give his entire time and attention to the industry—profitsand losses were to be equally shared and divided. It was then the custom, in an undertaking of this nature,to keep liquors ; and that wines in the cask were generally usedin the Wyoming Valley, and seemed to be as essential and neces-sary commodities in a general merchandise business as was a spoolof thread, is not at all surprising. Under the head of notions 5 62 SYNOPSIS 01 THE LIFI 01 |OHN W. ROBINSON. was implied the h
The Robinsons and their kin folk . MRS. JOHN W. (ANN BUTLER) ROBINSON. From an oil painting made about 1850. was to give his entire time and attention to the industry—profitsand losses were to be equally shared and divided. It was then the custom, in an undertaking of this nature,to keep liquors ; and that wines in the cask were generally usedin the Wyoming Valley, and seemed to be as essential and neces-sary commodities in a general merchandise business as was a spoolof thread, is not at all surprising. Under the head of notions 5 62 SYNOPSIS 01 THE LIFI 01 |OHN W. ROBINSON. was implied the having in hand pretty much all that was requiredl>\ the humble rustics of the community. Consequently thearticles dealt in were almost as diverse as those in larger stores of the present time, so that (though on a very diminutive scale) one might compare these village stores with the compartmentestablishments of to-day, where a purchaser is able to procure a. STONE HOUSE AND DWELLING OF JOHN W. ROBINSON. Built about 1818, and occupied by the family until about i860. Steinway piano, a pair of woolen socks, a roast of meat ; opena bank account, have a tooth extracted or buy an ape. Henceit is not so wonderful that this inland place of barter andexchange—an hundred miles from any large center of population—managed, in some years, to transact business to an amountexceeding ten thousand dollars a year. At the commencement of the fourth year of this partnership,Mr. Robinson was married to Ann Butler (January 12th, 1808), SYNOPSIS OF THE LIFE OF JOHN W. ROBINSON. 63 at her step-brothers (General Lord Butler) house, on Front, nowRiver Street, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., by the Rev. Ard Butler was the second daughter and third child of ColonelZebulon Butler and Phebe Haight, his third wife. If I here,very briefly, note the military career of Mrs. Robinsons father,you will condone the digression. Colonel Zebulon Butler took part in the campaign
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