The Robinsons and their kin folk . omwhom she inherited the foundation of her fortune. Vermont claims as her son an illustrious descendant of Row-land Robinson, the emigrant, in the personage of Rowland , Vermonts celebrated blind author, artist and poet,born in Ferrisburg, Vt., May 14, 1833, a great-great-great-grand-son of the first Rowland. 78 ROBINSONS EARLY EMIGRANTS TO AMERICA. Mr. Robinson is the youngest of four children and inheritedthe homestead which his greal grandfather, Thomas, located inthe Green Mountain State, in 1791, then just admitted into theUnion. It fell to the
The Robinsons and their kin folk . omwhom she inherited the foundation of her fortune. Vermont claims as her son an illustrious descendant of Row-land Robinson, the emigrant, in the personage of Rowland , Vermonts celebrated blind author, artist and poet,born in Ferrisburg, Vt., May 14, 1833, a great-great-great-grand-son of the first Rowland. 78 ROBINSONS EARLY EMIGRANTS TO AMERICA. Mr. Robinson is the youngest of four children and inheritedthe homestead which his greal grandfather, Thomas, located inthe Green Mountain State, in 1791, then just admitted into theUnion. It fell to the lot of youthful Rowland to follow the plough,for a time, on his fathers farm. But with that inborn desire,inherited from his mother, Rachel Gilpin, the daughter of aNew York artist, for a visible display of nature as he sawit, he was led to seek employment in New York City as adraughtsman and wood engraver, in which vocation his skillfrom 1866 to 1873 enlivened the pages of Harpers, FrankLeslies and other illustrated
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