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Wilson LaFayette Robinson is a son of Mathew B. and Sarah (Lindsay) Robinson, and is a farmer and stock raiser of Grubbs Township, Jackson County. The father was a native of Virginia, and the mother was born in Tennessee. In the fall of 1860, W. L. came to Arkansas with his parents, the mother dying in 1862, and the father surviving until 1872. Mr. Robinson attended school in Alabama until his twentieth year, receiving instruction in the common branches. In 1862 he enlisted in Col. Mattock’s regiment of Arkansas Volunteers, Confederate States Army, serving five or six months, when poor health rendered him unfit for service. In 1864 Mr. Robinson married Mrs. Frances (Blair) Coffin, who died in 1874; they had one child, which died in 1868. July 22, 1874, Mr. Robinson again married, and to the latter union seven children were born, only two of whom are now living, viz.: Grover Cleveland, born October 11, 1884, and Robert LaFayette, born May 7, 1888. In 1863 our subject purchased quit claim deed to land in Grubbs Township, which was partly improved, and to which he subsequently added forty acres, upon which he erected a house, in which he lived eighteen years. He now owns 720 acres of land, of which about 825 acres are under cultivation, the remainder being woodland. He has one of the best improved farms in the county, as a result of industry and enterprise, as well as good management and perseverance.