William and M. Emmet Robinson Collection

Collection Date(s):   1844  to 1891

Call Number(s):  PC 1.1 - PC 1.2

Physical Description:  1 cubic foot, including correspondence, account books, newspaper clippings, speeches, pamphlets, receipts, reports, pictures, legal papers, and miscellaneous items.
 

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Biographical Sketch:  William Robinson (c.1815-1877) was a native of Londonderry County, Ireland, who emigrated to Canada prior to 1835. He and his family came to North Carolina in 1839, first settling in Edgecombe County. By the mid 1840s they were in Waynesboro (later Goldsboro), Wayne County, where William would distinguish himself as a merchant, lawyer, town commissioner, newspaper editor, mayor, and temperance advocate. He was married twice and fathered eight sons, five of whom predeceased him. Dr. Marius Emmet Robinson (1847-1918) was one of William Robinson's three surviving sons. After serving in the Civil War, he earned a medical degree in 1870 from Washington University in Baltimore. He then returned to Goldsboro to set up a medical practice and drug store. He was the first chief of staff of Goldsboro's first hospital in 1896.

Collection Description:  The collection covers the span of circa 1844 to 1891 and includes numerous letters to William Robinson from relatives, friends, and political and business associates. Of particular interest are letters written by his son William George Robinson, a West Point Military Academy cadet who studied under Col. Robert E. Lee in the 1850s. Also of interest are letters from Charles Fisher, president of the North Carolina Railroad; Congressman Thomas Ruffin; son James H. Robinson, a student at the University of North Carolina until his death in 1857; and sons who served in the Confederate army during the Civil War. A Confederate muster roll for the Davis Partisan Rangers of Kinston, dated 1862, lists the names and personal information of dozens of soldiers from Wayne, Greene, Lenoir, Duplin, and surrounding counties.


 
Container Contents:
PC 1.2 Book Masonic book(?) labeled "Female Class Book", no date
PC 1.2 Book Manual of Subordinate Granges of the Patrons of Husbandry, Philadelphia , 1873
PC 1.1 Clippings Obituaries, and including others circa 1844 , 1872  to 1877
PC 1.1 Correspondence , 1850  to 1854
PC 1.1 Correspondence , 1855  to 1856
PC 1.1 Correspondence , 1857  to 1860
PC 1.1 Correspondence Broken series, no date on others , 1861  to 1891
PC 1.1 Ephemera Invitations, 1871, 1885, 1886, no date , 1871
PC 1.1 Miscellaneous 1869, and other items with no date , 1869
PC 1.2 Newspapers Carolina Messenger, July 12, 1872; July 22, 1872 , 1872
PC 1.2 Newspapers Carolina Messenger, July 27, 1876 , 1876
PC 1.2 Newspapers Goldsboro Messenger, September 10, 1877 , 1877
PC 1.2 Newspapers Goldsboro Messenger, Extra, circa 1872 , Circa 1872
PC 1.2 Newspapers Goldsboro Daily Argus, Aug. 18, 1885 , 1885
PC 1.2 Newspapers Daily News Raleigh, July 25, 1872; July 29, 1872 , 1872
PC 1.2 Newspapers Weekly Sentinel Raleigh, July 23, 1872 , 1872
PC 1.2 Newspapers Daily Sentinel Raleigh, July 29, 1872 , 1872
PC 1.2 Newspapers Waverly Magazine Boston, March 5, 1870 , 1870
PC 1.2 Newspapers Weekly Patriot, Washington, March 30, 1871; June 22, 1871 , 1871
PC 1.2 Newspapers The World, New York, July 22, 1872; July 27, 1872; July 29, 1872 , 1872
PC 1.2 Newspapers New York Herald, July 20, 1872; July 23, 1872; July 27, 1872; July 28, 1872 , 1872
PC 1.2 Newspapers Eastern Shoreman, Salisbury, MD, March 12, 1870 , 1870
PC 1.2 Newspapers Salisbury Advertiser, Salisbury, MD, March 12, 1870 , 1870
PC 1.2 Newspapers Weekly Express, Washington, NC, July 16, 1872 , 1872
PC 1.2 Newspapers Daily Journal, Wilmington, NC, July 21, 1872 , 1872
PC 1.2 Newspapers Morning Star, Wilmington, NC, May 16, 1884 , 1884
PC 1.1 Pamphlets, brochures, circulars , 1860  to 1891
PC 1.1 Records Receipts, bills of sale , 1845  to 1853
PC 1.1 Records Receipts, bills of sale , 1854  to 1857
PC 1.1 Records Receipts, bills of sale, 1866-1884 (broken series), others with no date , 1866  to 1884
PC 1.1 Records Certificates, West Point Military Academy , 1854  to 1858
PC 1.1 Records Confederate Muster Roll, Davis Partisan Rangers, Kinston , 1862
PC 1.1 Records Legal papers, agreements, 1865-1878 (broken series), no date on others , 1865  to 1878
PC 1.1 Records Accounts, Town of Goldsboro , 1870  to 1871
PC 1.1 Records Medical Accounts, Dr. M. E. Robinson , 1872  to 1875
PC 1.1 Records Medical Accounts, Dr. M. E. Robinson , 1883
PC 1.1 Records Medical papers, Dr. M. E. Robinson , 1868  to 1890
PC 1.1 Records Friends of Temperance Reports , 1870
PC 1.1 Records Insurance records, no date on others , 1885
PC 1.2 Records By-laws of Neuse Lodge, No. 6, I. O. O. F., Goldsboro , 1869
PC 1.2 Records Digest of the Laws of the Independent Order of Odd-Fellows, Philadelphia , 1848
PC 1.2 Records Account Book of William Robinson, 1858-1869, including records of court dockets in Lenoir, Duplin, and Wayne counties when he was serving as a lawyer, 1859-1861; store, farm, and school accounts , 1858  to 1869
PC 1.2 Records Account Book, medical accounts of Dr. M. E. Robinson , 1870  to 1873
PC 1.1 Speech Political speech circa 1875 , Circa 1875
PC 1.1 Speech Patriotic speeches circa 1848 , 1848
PC 1.1 Speeches Education speeches circa 1850s , 1850

 

Autographs:  


Bonner, C. C. 1857  
Brinkley, William 1852  
Cobb, Need{ham} B. 1854  
Duff, Anna M. 1857  
Fisher, Char[le]s F. C. 1858  
Gaillard, E. S. 1876  
Gardner, E. O. 1872  
Gulick, Sue 1887  
Henderson, L. O. 1886  
Hoke, J. F. 1861  
Holden, W[illiam] W[oods] 1850  
Husted, H. W. 1860  
Jones, T. P. 1871  
King, R. W. 1871  
Lane, M. O. 1888  
McMorran, S. F. 1871  
Milburn, Stephen G. 1851  
Murray, James 1851  
Oldham, Alex 1862  
Parrott, A. D. 1891  
Pender, J[osiah] S. 1861-1862  
Robinson, James. H. 1855-1857  
Robinson, T[homas] R[uffin] 1877  
Robinson, William George 1854-1855, 1857  
Robinson, Windal T. 1863, 1869, no date  
Ruffin, Thomas 1853-1855, 1857-1858, no date  
Thigpen, Peggie and Susie 1866  
Watson, E. F. 1857  
Whitehead, W. W. 1857  

 

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