My Genealogy Hound

WALTOUR M. ROBINSON, attorney at law, Webb City, is a native Missourian, born in Paris, Monroe county. Nov. 27, 1851, and is the fifth of a family of seven children. His father was a native of Virginia, who came to Missouri about 1835. His mother’s maiden name was Clara Moss, a native of Boone county, this state, and is of a family of the oldest settlers in that county, and is herself extensively connected with the descendants of the pioneers of that part of the state. Waltour, the subject of this sketch, was raised in Monroe county and educated in the public and private schools of Paris, and afterward attended the William Jewell College, at Liberty, Clay county, Mo., for three years—1869-70-71—when he went to the Union College of Law at Chicago, where he graduated in 1875. He was admitted to the bar in Chicago in 1875, and practiced in the courts of that city until he finished his course. He came to Webb City in January, 1876, and has since resided here, building up a steadily increasing practice, and is regarded as one of the leading young attorneys of the county. On October 12th, 1881, he was married to Miss Jennie Reynolds, daughter of William Reynolds, of this city. Mr. Robinson is a Republican in politics, a rapid and concise talker, and a rising man in his profession.