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1803-1880
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Tolland, Tolland County, Connecticut, USA
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Jacksonville, Duval County, Florida, USA
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77 years
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Solon Robinson (October 21, 1803 – November 3, 1880) was a writer, journalist, agriculturist, and pioneer. He wrote for the New York Tribune and American Agriculturist and published several books including Hot Corn, a bestseller.
Robinson was from Connecticut and settled in Crown Point, Indiana with his family. He formed a squatters union.
He was an agriculturist.
Robinson was one of the prominent reporters at Horace Greeley's New York Tribune. He joined the paper in 1852. Robinson wrote about Florida during the Reconstruction Era convention writing the 1868 Florida Constitution. In 1868, due to poor health, he semi-retired to Jacksonville, Florida. Robinson helped the paper gain popularity in the West and South.
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