Identifier: historyofblackha02hart (find matches)
Title: History of Black Hawk County, Iowa, and its people
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Hartman, John C., 1861- ed
Subjects: Black Hawk County (Iowa) -- History Black Hawk County (Iowa) -- Biography
Publisher: Chicago : S. J. Clarke publishing company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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and Franklin streets. Directly back of the resi-dence was an old Indian trail where in his boyhood James E. Robinson sawhundreds of Indians pass in a body. The father was a carpenter by trade andfor many years conducted business as a contractor and builder, erecting manyof the homes in Cedar Falls in the early years and thus contributing in largemeasure to the improvement of the city. He died in August. 1909, at the ageof eighty-two years, while his widow still survives and yet makes her home inCedar Falls at the age of eighty-three. She is still hale and hearty and refusesto allow anyone to do her housework, insisting that she is able to take care ofher own home. Her grandfather lived to the remarkable old age of one hun-dred and fifteen years and her mother to the age of one hundred and twelve years,the latter dying while kneeling in prayer in church. The family is thus noted forlongevity and there seems to be no reason why Mrs. Robinson should not survivefor several years to come.
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JAMES E. ROBINSON HISTORY OF BLACK HAWK COUNTY 329 James E. Robinson was educated in the public and high schools of CedarFalls and in early manhood he learned the carpenters trade under the directionof his father. For fifteen years he worked at his trade as a journeyman andthen engaged in the contracting and building business, which he followed forfourteen years. He built the Methodist church of Cedar Falls, the M. N. Day-ton home, the residence of M. N. Harris and many other of the finest homes ofCedar Falls. Most of the store buildings of the city have either been erected byhis father or by himself. For several years he did all of the building of thestate college and in 1901 he was persuaded by President Seerley to accept theposition of superintendent of construction, buildings and grounds, since whichtime he has had absolute jurisdiction over all construction work. The magnifi-cent buildings erected by him will stand for years as a monument to his skill asa builder, and those who k

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