Biography

02/17/1796 - 05/31/1875

ROBINSON, Lyman, a Representative from Erie County; born, February 17, 1796 in Springfield, Hampden County, Ma.; surveyor; road commissioner, Wattsburg; innkeeper, Wattsburg; elected, commissioner, Erie County (1839-1842); elected as a Whig to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1843 and 1846 terms; postmaster, United States Postal Service, Wattsburg (1844-1845); justice of the peace, Wattsburg; died, May 31, 1875 in Wattsburg, Erie County, Pennsylvania; interred, Wattsburg Cemetery, Wattsburg, Erie County, Pennsylvania.