Biography

12/17/1785 - 02/25/1868

ROBINSON, William, Jr., a Representative from Allegheny County; born, December 17, 1785 in Allegheny City (now Pittsburgh), Allegheny County, Pa.; attended, Pittsburgh Academy (now University of Pittsburgh); attended, Princeton College; general, Pennsylvania Militia (Mexican-American War); president, Allegheny Bridge Company (1810-1820); engaged, real estate; elected, treasurer, Allegheny City (now Pittsburgh), (1830-1835); elected, accessor, Allegheny City (1832-1833); elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1833-1834 term; president, Exchange Bank of Pittsburgh (1836-1842); owner, steamboat William Robinson (1839); elected, mayor, Allegheny City (1840); president, Ohio & Pennsylvania Railroad (1848-1862); engaged, iron manufacturing; elected, select council, president, Allegheny City (1849-1856): director, Citizens Insurance Company of Pittsburgh (1853-1854); died, February 25, 1868 in Allegheny City, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; interred, Allegheny Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.