This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: JoseMunoz2546 Surnames: Robinson Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.robinson/10227.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Since I posted this query, I have transcribed 50 newspaper clippings and from the information contained in them I have been able to reconstruct the family tree of John N Robinson. We still do not know how the scrap book ended up in Chicago, nor do we know why the person choose to clip those particular items from the various papers, but we now know who John was and further more we have been able to find the son of Herman who was John's son. We will get the book to that person once we have finished working with it. The relatives have given me lots of new information and I am filling in the tree to make sense of all the news clippings. I found the history of John N. Robinson written up in a Railroad Magazine which gives a good over all description of his life up to 1893. ========================================================= The Railway agent and station agent: A monthly magazine..., Volumes 9-10 By National Association of Railway Agents ... THE STATION AGENT July 1893 John N. Robinson, district passenger and land agent at Milwaukee, Wis., was born at Basking Ridge, Somerset County, N.J., September 28 1847. He came west when nineteen years of age and settled at Fort Scott, Kansas. A short time afterwards entered the Illinois Central Railroad at Amboy, Ill., as a brakeman, resigning in one year to take a position on the Des Moines Valley Railroad at Des Moines, Iowa, as conductor, and remained with that company and its successor, the C.R.I. & P. Railroads, until February, 1879, when he resigned to take a position with the Wisconsin Central Railway, as conductor, between Milwaukee and Stevens Point. In the spring of 1882, he entered the service of the passenger department, as city passenger and ticket agent at Milwaukee, and was promoted to traveling passenger agent of that line, August 21st, 1885, with headquarters at Milwaukee. Entered the service of the Northern Pacific Railroad, May 1st, 1889, as district passenger and land agent, with h! eadquarters at Milwaukee, having been placed in charge of the territory comprising the State of Wisconsin and the upper peninsula of Michigan, which position he still holds. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.