California Biographies Mendocino and Lake Counties, California Transcribed by Peggy Hooper This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm Source: History of Mendocino and Lake Counties, California With Biographical Sketches History by Aurelius O. Carpenter And Percy H. Millberry Illustrated, Complete In One Volume Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, California, 1914 JOHN L. ROBINSON was born February 21, 1861, at his father's homestead down Clear lake, on what is now the Indian Rancho, and grew up there. At the time of his mother's death he was around thirty years old and married, and for a number of years thereafter he rented the old homestead, carrying on farming and stock raising. Then for four years he was in part- nership with his brother Jesse in the meat business at Upper Lake, and when they sold the market bought the livery stable, in which he held his interest for one year. Selling that in 1903, he has since been in business as a con- tractor and builder. Among the buildings he has put up may be mentioned the residence of his brother Jesse at Upper Lake, the Jerome Mack Sleeper and Frank Howe residences, and the Methodist Episcopal parsonage, and he worked on the home of Van Buren Sleeper ; some years ago he did work on the Upper Lake schoolhouse. At present he is giving all his time to the carpenter business. Mr. Robinson owns three acres just north of Upper Lake village, where he has built a splendid house and made numerous other improvements, converting it into a home which is a credit to the neighbor- hood and a matter of pride to the owner. By his first marriage, to Miss Berdenia Tallman, of Upper Lake, Mr. Robinson had one child, who died, however, when only three months old. Mrs. Robinson passed away in 1893. In 1902 he married (second) Miss Mildred McCullough, a native of Lake county, whose parents, Robert and Margaret (McClintock) McCullough, belong to early settled families of the county. To this marriage have been born two children, John Herald and Elva Florence. Mrs. Robinson is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Upper Lake and belongs to its Ladies' Aid Society. In political sentiment Mr. Robinson is a Republican, but in voting he aims to support good principles and men of principle rather than party.