HERE’S A LOT OF SIX (6) DOCUMENTS SIGNED BY
WILLIAM JUSTUS ROBINSON
(1814 - 1880)
PROMINENT PROMOTER and POLITICO OF DAUPHIN, PENNSYLVANIA,
INDUSTRIALIST LEADER - OWNER OF A LEATHER FACTORY and TANNERY MILL ALONG THE MOUTH OF STONY CREEK IN DAUPHIN, PA, 1865-1880
LOCAL PHILANTHROPIST
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SON-IN-LAW OF THE HON. WILLIAM CLARK, US CONGRESSMAN and US TREASURER APPOINTED BY JOHN QUINCY ADAMS.
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HERE’S A GROUP OF SIX (6) ATTRACTIVE BANK CHECKS SIGNED BY ROBINSON, DRAWN OFF THE HARRISBURG NATIONAL BANK, DATED AT DAUPHIN, PA, FROM 1869 TO 1877. THE DOCUMENTS FEATURE AN ATTRACTIVE VIGNETTE OF THE BANK’S FACADE.
EACH CHECK BEARS A 2 CENT US INTERNAL REVENUE STAMP
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Birth |
Dec. 14, 1814, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
Death |
April 1, 1880, Dauphin, PA, (aged 65–66) |
Burial |
Dauphin Cemetery, Dauphin, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania |
William Justus Robinson, born in Philadelphia, December 14, 1814, married at Dauphin, Pa., March 22, 1838, industrialist, leather manufacturer, merchant, local philanthropist. died April 1, 1880, at Dauphin. He fell to his death over a second floor banister!
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