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A City In 1886:
First settled in 1842, when it became the county seat, Robinson was incorporated as a village in 1866 and as a city in 1886. It was named for John M. Robinson (1794—1843) who was a justice of the state supreme court and a United States senator from Illinois. The city's government is administered by a mayor and council. Pop. 7,226.Returning to the United States, Griffis entered the Union Theological Seminary in New York in 1877 and took up the ministry, first in the First Reformed Church in Schenectady (1877-1886) and then in Congregational churches in Boston and Ithaca from 1886 to 1903. After 1903 he devoted himself to writing and lecturing. He died on Feb. 5, 1928, at Winter Park, Fla.
Lawyer and poet William Alexander ' was born in Greenville. The city's public is named in his honor, enville was founded in 1829, when a band eers moored their Boat at Bachelor's Bend Mississippi River. The community was .orated in 1886.
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