Imperial-Los Angeles County CA Archives Biographies.....Robison, James H. 1875 - 
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Author: F. C. Farr (editor, 1918)

JAMES A. ROBISON.—One of the prominent business men of Southern California is a
man to whom success has come as a result of unfaltering determination, untiring
industry, energy and enterprise, for he has worked his way upward to the success
which he now enjoys. Mr. Robison has been manager of the California Central
Creameries since 1915. He is a native of Barrackville, West Virginia. His birth
occurred March 3, 1875, a son of James Z. and Martha E. (Floyd) Robison. He
acquired his education in the public schools of Fairmont, West Virginia, and
later took a four-year agricultural course and graduated from that department in
Wisconsin. He became an instructor in that course in the University of
Wisconsin. He was the organizer for the Creamery Package Manufacturing Company,
and did much to place various creameries on a paying basis until 1904. In 1905
he removed to Phoenix, Arizona, where he was identified with the Maricopa
Creamery as manager for a period of two years. He then took the management of
the De Laval Dairy Supply Company in Los Angeles until 1909, when he came to the
Imperial Valley and erected and operated the creamery at Brawley. The creamery
was operated under the name of the Imperial Valley Creamery Company. Mr. Robison
also erected a creamery at El Centro, and one at Holtville, and in the fall of
1915 he disposed of his holdings. The various plants were merged under the name
of the California Central Creameries. Fraternally he is affiliated with the
Knights of Pythias. He was united in marriage to Miss Florence Stewart of
Phoenix, Arizona, February 27, 1907, and one son, Raymond, has been born to
them. It can be said of James A. Robison that he has been an active factor in
the commercial circles of Imperial County and he is regarded as one of the
enterprising and progressive men of the community. He endured many hardships and
the establishments that he has erected are among the best in California. Mr. and
Mrs. Robison have a host of friends in the Imperial Valley.

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THE HISTORY
OF
IMPERIAL COUNTY
CALIFORNIA
EDITED BY
F. C. FARR

IN ONE VOLUME
ILLUSTRATED
Published by ELMS AND FRANKS
BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA 1918

Printed by Taylor & Taylor, San Francisco

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