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Show G W ROBINSON DEAD Word was received from Los Angeles yesterday of the death of Mr. George Robinson of tho ilrm of Robinson Bros. Mr. ltoblnson went to California Cali-fornia about a month ago, where he hoped to regain his health but It seems that the disease had too great a hold upon his system. Tho body will be brought here for burial and should reach hero tomorrow. Tho time of the funeral has not yet been announced. an-nounced. Mr. ltoblnson was born In Grants-vllle, Grants-vllle, Tooclo county, Utah, about thlrty-thrco years ago and comes from the Edward ltoblnson stock. Ills mother died wheh he was a babe and his early life was spent with relatives at American Fork, Pinto and Huntington. Hunt-ington. AVhcn 15 or 10 years of ago ho became dissatisfied with farm life and rode on horseback to GrantsvMlo and engaged In business there with a relative. rela-tive. This proved unsatisfactory and ho went to Ogden, where he engaged at manual labor for a time. While at this place he ran short of money and It Is related that rather than go back to his relatives or ask forald ho lived for a week on three loaves of bread. From Ogden he went to Salt Lake City with the Idea of making preparation prepara-tion to go to California, but fell In with II. M. Dcsky, where his capacity for business brought him tho foreman-ship foreman-ship of the establishment. Whilo there ho married Miss Lamoreaux of this city and his health falling shortly after ho came to Logan and engaged In business. His rise was rapid and at this time the ltoblnson Pros.' establishment estab-lishment Is one of the leading business houses of the city. His father was John ltoblnson and grandfather Edward Ed-ward Robinson. Edward ltoblnson at the time of his death a few years ago was the oldest railway employee in the world, having run tho first train from Manchester to Liverpool, England. |