HISTORICAL NOTE

This collection consists of material by the family of Henry S. Robinson, one of the owners of 97 Main St., now home of the Andover Historical Society. Mr. Robinson, 1831-1912, who was the son of Charles Ramsey Robinson, lived in Andover from about 1885 to his death in 1912. He was born in Meredith, N.H. and spent his early professional life as an engineer in Maine, where, in 1855 he married Mary Muzzy of Seaport. They had four children including Joseph Muzzy Robinson, c. 1856-1942; Mattie Frances Robinson and Rosebelle (Rose) Robinson Alden. He served in the Civil War, 36^th Massachusetts Regiment, until he was severely wounded at Blue Springs, Tennessee in October, 1863. He returned to New England, working as an engineer first for the Pacific Mills in Lawrence, the, in 1873 establishing the Robinson Boiler Works in East Boston. After a fire in 1892, his firm merged into the Atlantic Works.

Processed by Mary F. Morgan, December 1982.