Biography

03/26/1825 - 07/23/1877


ROBINSON, Jacob, a Representative from Luzerne County; born, March 26, 1825 in Lanterecken, Bavaria, Germany; captain, Scranton Jaegers, Independent Militia; proprietor, J. Robinson and Co., brewers and bottlers; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1863 and 1864 terms; not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1865 term; proprietor, brewery, Scranton; died, July 23, 1877 in Scranton, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania; interred, Forest Hill Cemetery, Dunmore, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania.


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