PNEUMONIA IS
FATAL TO FORMER
CITY MERCHANT
__________
Silas Dean Robinson Passes
Away At Home of Daugh-
ter, After Illness of Five
Days.
__________
LEADER IN THE
FRIENDS SOCIETY
__________
Member of a Family Long
Identified With Agricul-
tural, Business and Relig-
ious Affairs.
__________
Silas Dean Robinson, 85, member of a family actively
and prominently identified with Winchester and Frederick
county agricultural, business and religious life for many
years, died late Saturday afternoon at the home of his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Robinson, on South
Stewart street.
Mr. Robinson's illness was of comparatively brief
duration. He was stricken with a heavy cold recently, which
developed into pneumonia five days ago, and he lost strength
steadily until the end, which came at 4 o'clock.
The funeral took place at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon
from the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robinson and the services were
conducted by Bliss Forbush, of the Society of Friends, who
came from Baltimore for this purpose.
Interment was in the family lot in Mount Hebron
Cemetery. Pallbearers were Howell Bond, Allen Bond, Phil H.
Gold, Albert Robinson, Clarence Robinson and Wilber E.
Cather.
Native of Frederick County.
Mr. Robinson was born near Winchester June 6, 1848, the
son of David and Ellen (Cather) Robinson. He lived on the
home farm until the fall of 1876, when he went to Missouri
to engage in a merchandizing business with his cousin,
Thomas Wright Robinson, also from Frederick county.
On April 17, 1879, he married Florence J. Lauck, of
Winchester, and they made their home in the middle west
until 1903, when they returned to Winchester, and Mr.
Robinson conducted a dry goods business on Main street with
his brother, the late Rufus C. Robinson, under the firm name
of Robinson Brothers.
In 1909 he left Winchester, and at the time of his
wife's death, 1920, he was secretary and treasurer of the W.
C. Lauck Jewelry Company, Inc., of Newport News, Va.
Mrs. Robinson died in Washington, D. C. following a
taxicab accident in November, 1920, and after her death he
disposed of his interest in the W. C. Lauck Company and
retired from business, making his home with his son-in-law
and daughter Mr. and Mrs. Ray Robinson, of Winchester.
In the summer of 1923, Mr. Robinson traveled to
California to visit his son, David, of Los Angeles, making
stops on the way to revisit scenes and renew acquaintances
dating from his long residence and business career in the
west. In 1928 he repeated the trip, in the company of his
son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Robinson, of
Syracuse, N. Y. On this trip he visited a number of the
national parks and monuments in the west.
Mr. Robinson was a member of the Winchester Meeting,
Society of Friends, and a regular attender of the society's
gatherings, as well as a frequent visitor to the Baltimore
Yearly Meeting.
Surviving him are four sisters, Mrs. Margaret Fries, of
Berkeley Springs, W. Va.; Mrs. Carrie Hott, of Dayton, Va.;
Mrs. Rowena Fries, and Miss Emma Robinson, both of
Winchester; three children, Ernest F. Robinson, of Syracuse,
N. Y.; Mrs. Ray Robinson, of Winchester, and David W.
Robinson, of Los Angeles, Calif.; and six grandchildren,
William Kirley, Charles Dean, Florence Langley, and Harold
Ernest, children of his son Ernest and James Kenneth and
Ray, Jr., children of his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and
Mrs. Ray Robinson.
______________________________
|