Brown County Biographies
From "The Annals of Brown County", Grant Harrington, 1903
H. M. Robinson.
On April 1st
1858 H. M. Robinson located in
Hiawatha and
started a harness
shop on the
ground where C.
H. Lawrence's
brick building
now stands, the
family living upstairs. When the
Brown County Union was started it
had its office In the same building
with Mr. Robinson's shop. This
building burned down on January
3rd 1862. He was elected constable
of Irving township, which then included Hiawatha, in 1860, was deputy
sheriff under J. H. Schenck and I. B.
Hoover and was elected sheriff in
1863 and re-elected in 1865. After
leaving the sheriffs office he worked
for W. B. Barnett in the store and in
the county treasurers office for a year
or so and then in the summer of 1869
went to the Montana silver mines.
In February 1870 he was made agent
of the St. Joe and Denver City railway and on the 22nd day of that
month opened the station at Robinson. Soon afterwards he
was transfered to Hiawatha where he acted as
agent for fourteen years. On retiring
as agent he was put at the head of
the freight department which position he continues to hold. Mr Robinson
is a Mason belonging to Hiawatha lodge, Mount Horeb Chapter
and Hiawatha Commandry. He is
now Recorder of the Commandry a
position he has held for the past
four years.
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