Early Life
After Robinson's birth in Bellevue, Ohio and while still a toddler, his family moved to St. Louis, Missouri where Robinson's father, Bradbury Norton Robinson, Sr. (1842–1924), became general baggage agent for the Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad. The senior Robinson spent most of his adult life working for railroads. Born in Lowell, Massachusetts, he served one year as a sergeant in the Union Army before moving for the first time to Missouri in 1862 to participate in the construction of the Missouri Pacific Railroad from St. Louis to Kansas City.
Before the young Robinson was old enough to attend school, the family moved again to Baraboo, Wisconsin, to be near his mother's family. Robinson's mother, Amelia Lee Robinson (1856–1930), was born in London, England and moved with her parents to the Baraboo area in 1878. Robinson was raised in Baraboo, a place he later joked was "made famous by the Ringling Brothers Circus...and myself." The Circus was founded the same year that Robinson was born.
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