Willis E. Robinson

Willis Eugene Robison (March 1, 1854 – June 28, 1937^[1]) was a member of the Utah Territorial Legislature.

Robison was born in Crete, Will County, Illinois and raised in Fillmore, Utah from a very young age. He married Sarah A. Ellett. From 1882 to 1884 he served as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in the Southern States Mission. In 1888 he moved to Piute, Utah and the following year to Loa, Utah when he was called to serve as bishop of the LDS Church ward in that place.

In the 1890s, Robison was elected to the Utah Territorial Legislature from the district that covered what was then Piute and Beaver counties. When Piute County was split, Robison was put in charge of organizing the new county, which he named Wayne County supposedly after one of his sons or after Wayne County, Tennessee.^[2] In 1893, when the Wayne Stake of the LDS Church was organized, Robison was made the first president of that stake.

Robison was a member of the 1895 Utah Constitutional Convention.

References

^ "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1964". FamilySearch. Retrieved 9 April 2017.
^ Murphy, Miriam B. (January 1999). A History of Wayne County (PDF). Utah Centennial County History Series. Salt Lake City: Utah State Historical Society. pp. 78–80. ISBN 0-913738-45-X. Retrieved January 27, 2015.

Andrew Jenson. LDS Biographical Encyclopedia. Vol. 1, p. 342-343.

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[1] "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1964". FamilySearch. Retrieved 9 April 2017.

[wayne-2] Murphy, Miriam B. (January 1999). A History of Wayne County (PDF). Utah Centennial County History Series. Salt Lake City: Utah State Historical Society. pp. 78–80. ISBN 0-913738-45-X. Retrieved January 27, 2015.

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