Sacramento County Biographies

JAMES S. S. ROBINSON

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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NATOMA TOWNSHIP. 
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	Post Office, Mormon Island; was born in Nova Scotia in 
1815; removed with his parents to Maine in 1827 and lived there until 1852; he 
then came to California by way of the Isthmus and commenced mining near Mormon 
Island; followed mining in this county until 1863, when he moved to Alpine 
County and remained there about seven years; then, he returned to this county 
and settled at Mormon Island, his present location, and since when, he has been 
engaged principally in raising fruit; owns twenty acres of land, worth about 
$1500. Mr. Robinson has held the office of Road Overseer. He married Augusta D. 
Townsend, a native of Maine; she died about three and a half years ago. 
 
Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by 
Thompson & West.