Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Volume I and Volume II, Lewis
Publishing Company, 1904, pp. 107-108.  McCracken Co.

GEORGE W. ROBERTSON

     George W. Robertson, a retired merchant of Paducah, was born in
Livingston county, Kentucky, in 1836.  His parents were George W. and
Martha Robertson.  His father was born and reared in Kentucky, and his
mother, though born in North Carolina, was reared in Kentucky.  These
parents were very early settlers of Livingston county, Kentucky.  The
father was a farmer by occupation, and on the farm the subject of this
sketch was reared.  He was given fair school advantages up to the age of
sixteen years, when he quit the schoolroom and the farm to become a
salesman in a mercantile establishment at Smithland, the county seat, at
that time one of the flourishing and most promising towns of western
Kentucky.  He clerked only a short time, however.  Having a desire to visit
the western frontier, Mr. Robertson went, in 1853, to California, where he
spent two years.  Returning from the Pacific coast, he located at New
Orleans, and there learned photography, and for about twenty years
thereafter was engaged in the photographic business.  The last eleven years
of that period of time he was in business in the city of Paducah.
     Quitting that line of business, Mr. Robertson engaged in the grocery
business in Paducah, in partnership with Mr. T.J. Atkins.  This business
was entered into in 1877, and about five years later Mr. Robertson
purchased his partner's interest, and for many years thereafter was
numbered among the active business men of Paducah.
     Mr. Robert was married in Livingston county, Kentucky, in 1859, to
Miss Anna M. Stonebreaker.  Six children were born to the marriage, namely:
Jefferson B., George H., Charles, Ida, Lulu and Mittie.  Mr. Robertson has
long been a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and in politics
a Democrat.  He has a large acquaintance and is highly respected in Paducah
and in his county.

Robertson Atkins Stonebreaker
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Livingston-KY NC CA Orleans-LA

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