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Lewis Robinson

1793 - 1871

Lewis Robinson (b. Aug. 19, 1793; d. Nov. 16, 1871), was the eldest child of Ebenezer and Hannah Ackley Robinson. He was raised on the farm cleared by his father, being employed nine months in the year in tilling the land, and attending school for three months in the winter. To these advantages for an education were added one term at the old Academy at Duttonsville, and another at a High School in Granville, N. Y. The sons and daughters of the early settlers of Vermont were content to build their homes around their ancestral hearth stones, and the subject of our sketch with his five brothers and sisters, all settled in or near the village of South Reading, Vt., lived and died there, and were buried in the old village graveyard on the hill. Lewis Robinson proved himself a man of marked ability and energy. Soon after he came of age he engaged in the business of book publishing, establishing a printing office at Greenbush. He published a number of works there, and soon after went into the copper plate printing and the publication of maps and Scripture paintings at South Reading. In the map manufacture he found a large field. He was one of the most extensive copper plate map publishers. In 1836 with two of his brothers-in-law, he established a large map publishing house in Akron, Ohio. In 1844 he established a branch of his map business at Stanstead, Lower Canada, and published there a large map of Upper and Lower Canada. Information from "Centennial Celebration" By Gilbert Asa Davis. Published in 1874.

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