WI BIO - Lafayette Co - ROBERTSON, Adam

History of La Fayette County, Wisconsin. Chicago: Western Historical, 1881, 
p 788

Adam ROBERTSON, blacksmith, Town of Blanchardville, Lafayette County, 
Wisconsin, was born 13 May 1840 in Fayette Township, La Fayette County, 
Wisconsin, and is one of a family of ten children. His father and mother 
came to Wisconsin in 1830 [when it was still part of Michigan Territory] from 
Illinois [which had become a State in 1818], and settled at Fayette [a 
township which was in 1830 still part of Iowa County, formed in 1829, and 
became part of Lafayette County when that county was created in 1846]. When 
he [Adam ROBERTSON] was about seventeen [by calculation about 1847], he went 
to Wiota [Lafayette County, Wisconsin] and learned the blacksmith business 
with Mr. HENRY, and then went to work for himself in Wiota, continuing about 
one year.

Adam ROBERTSON then went to Gratiot [Lafayette County], where he enlisted in 
1864 in Company H, Third Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. Mr. ROBERTSON was in 
the siege of Atlanta, and with General SHERMAN through to the sea, and was 
mustered out in 1865. He then returned to Gratiot, and went in business for 
about one year, then went to Monroe, Green County [Wisconsin], then to Wayne 
[a Township in Lafayette County], then to [the village of] Blanchardville [in 
the Town of Blanchard, Lafayette County], and is now running a fine business, 
manufacturing a patent punching machine of his own.

In 1865 he [Adam ROBERTSON] married Mary PORTER [a maiden name?], who was 
born 06 October 1846 in Wiota, Lafayette County, Wisconsin. They [Adam and 
Mary ROBERTSON] have seven children: (1) Alice L.; (2) Ella U.; (3) Levey 
A.; (4) Harris W., deceased; (5) Henry C.; (6) Jennie M.; and (7) 
Estella F. In politics Mr. ROBERTSON is Republican, and in religion a 
Baptist. He is a member of the Good Templars. He owns town property.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly