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Show Funeral Is Held Saturday For F. B. Robinson Funeral services were held Saturday Sat-urday afternoon at the local L. D. S. chapel for F. B. Robinson, with a large number of friends of the wellknown engineer in attendance. attend-ance. Miss Lucile Estes, deaconess-pastor deaconess-pastor of the Milford M. E. church tonducted the services and Attorney Attor-ney Harold Cline gave the eulogy. Frank Browne Robinson was born October 4, 18G4, at Indianapolis, Indian-apolis, Indiana, a son of Henry E. Robinson and Emma Browne Robinson. As a small boy he moved with his parents to Richmond, Indiana, In-diana, where the family home has been every since. Mr. Robinson's father and grandfather, grand-father, Francis Robinson, founded the business known as the Robinson Robin-son Machine Works, which has been in operation in the Robinson family continuously, Mr. Robinson being a director to the time of his death. The decease'! was a man of widest wid-est scholastic attainment, having graduated from Mount St. Mary's college, near Baltimore, and the! Polytechnic institute of Boston ' and was a graduate engineer of: Cornell university. He was a mem-j ber of Sigma Beta Phi, honorary, enginnering society and had travel-j id abroad extensively. His life interests were many, his! professional work widely known and utilized. He had worked under! John F. Miller, president of the Pennsylvania railroad system, had been associated with the Haniman1 railroad interests, and as a result j of the latter became associated; with the Oregon Short Line as an i engineer in the building of many ' branches of that railroad. He was) associated with the Kuhn company; of Idaho in various large irriga-! tion projects and had had super-1 vision of large acreages with the1 Denver Tclluride section. For the past 13 years he had been manager of the project nowj operated by the Duluth Land and 1 Investment company and the Rocky Ford Irrigation company. His determination de-termination to make the Duluth and Rocky Ford projects a success and to build up the local country.' especially during the latter years j of drouth, led to overwork and nervous ner-vous exhaustion. Last Christmas! his health began to fail and the 1 long years of faithful struggle began be-gan to tell. x I As a young man Mr. Robinson I married Mrs. L. Maye Hughes i Franke, a lady of social promi-: nence throughout Tennessee, and ; a daughter of Colonel James Hamilton Hughes, attorney and legislator of McMinnville, Tennessee. Ten-nessee. The deceased leaves, surviving ' him, his widow and foru brothers and sisters, H. Raymond Robinson, Platte Robinson, Mrs. Daisy R.1 Vaughan and Mrs. Grace Gennette, all of Richmond, Indiana, and two I I stepdaughters, Misses Lucille and I Kendall p!ranke. I Following the services in Milford, Mil-ford, Mr. Robinson's remains were taken to Salt Lake City where the rites of cremation were had, according ac-cording to his expressed desire. The ashes were then placed in a bronze urn, transported to Crown lli!l cemetery at Indianopolis and there laid at rest by his family be-. be-. i ie his parents and grandparents. Final services were conducted in the Episcopal church in which he was reared. |