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Richard Alexander Robinson Sr.

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Richard Alexander Robinson Sr.

Birth
Winchester City, Virginia, USA
Death
9 Dec 1897 (aged 80)
Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, USA
Burial
Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, USA Add to Map
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Established the wholesale drug company of R A Robinson & Co., company evolved into Robinson & Pettet Co. to become one of the largest drug companies in the South.

Organized the Louisville Cement Company

Organized the Louisville Cotton Exchange Company (evolved into Union Warehouse Company), Organized the Louisville Cotton Mills Company

First Honorary Member -Louisville Board of Trade

Listed under Fetter's Most Notable Men, beginning of the 20th century -under merchants

Listed under History of Kentucky and Kentuckians (E. Polk Johnson, Lewis Publishing Company, 1912) "RICHARD ALEXANDER ROBINSON--The late Richard Alexander Robinson was one of the leading citizens and business men of Louisville. A sketch of his life finds an appropriate place in history of those men of business and enterprise in Kentucky whose force of character, whose sterling integrity, whose fortitude amid discouragements, whose good sense in the management of complicated affairs and marked success in establishing large industries and bringing to completion great schemes of trade and profit have contributed in an eminent degree to the development of the vast resources of the country."

Started the Elizabethtown and Paducah Railroad (now the Kentucky division of the Illinois Central System)

Director of the Louisville Bridge Company (built the first bridge in the area to connect with the North)

Richard A Robinson Sr and Eliza Denne Pette had 13 children.
Established the wholesale drug company of R A Robinson & Co., company evolved into Robinson & Pettet Co. to become one of the largest drug companies in the South.

Organized the Louisville Cement Company

Organized the Louisville Cotton Exchange Company (evolved into Union Warehouse Company), Organized the Louisville Cotton Mills Company

First Honorary Member -Louisville Board of Trade

Listed under Fetter's Most Notable Men, beginning of the 20th century -under merchants

Listed under History of Kentucky and Kentuckians (E. Polk Johnson, Lewis Publishing Company, 1912) "RICHARD ALEXANDER ROBINSON--The late Richard Alexander Robinson was one of the leading citizens and business men of Louisville. A sketch of his life finds an appropriate place in history of those men of business and enterprise in Kentucky whose force of character, whose sterling integrity, whose fortitude amid discouragements, whose good sense in the management of complicated affairs and marked success in establishing large industries and bringing to completion great schemes of trade and profit have contributed in an eminent degree to the development of the vast resources of the country."

Started the Elizabethtown and Paducah Railroad (now the Kentucky division of the Illinois Central System)

Director of the Louisville Bridge Company (built the first bridge in the area to connect with the North)

Richard A Robinson Sr and Eliza Denne Pette had 13 children.

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