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Elder Asa Theron Robinson

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Birth	:	22 Aug 1850 Brighton, Carleton County, New Brunswick, Canada
Death	:	8 Nov 1949 Saint Helena, Napa County, California, USA
Burial	:	Sacred Heart Cemetery, Dowagiac, Cass County, USA
Coordinate	:	42.0436980, -86.1456440
Plot	:	Lot 23 Block 24 Ext.
Description	:	Minister and administrator. Reared in a Christian home in New Brunswick, Canada, he went at the age of 20 to Cornish Flat, New Hampshire, to convince his brother, Dores, who was keeping Saturday as the Sabbath, of his mistake. He not only failed but was himself convinced. In 1876 he married Loretta, the twelfth child of William Farnsworth, pioneer Sabbathkeeper in Washington, New Hampshire. Invited by S. N. Haskell to become a self-supporting colporteur in 1882, he and his wife spent several months selling Uriah Smith's Thoughts on Daniel and the Revelation. Their two sons, Erban... Read More	Minister and administrator. Reared in a Christian home in New Brunswick, Canada, he went at the age of 20 to Cornish Flat, New Hampshire, to convince his brother, Dores, who was keeping Saturday as the Sabbath, of his mistake. He not only failed but was himself convinced. In 1876 he married Loretta, the twelfth child of William Farnsworth, pioneer Sabbathkeeper in Washington, New Hampshire. Invited by S. N. Haskell to become a self-supporting colporteur in 1882, he and his wife spent several months selling Uriah Smith's Thoughts on Daniel and the Revelation. Their two sons, Erban and Dores, at the time were not yet 5 years old. In 1884, again at Haskell's invitation, they entered city mission work in New Bedford, Boston, and Worcester, Massachusetts, and in Brooklyn, New York. In 1886 Robinson was ordained and the next year chosen president of the New England Conference. In 1891 Robinson went to South Africa, where he organized the first conference. During his six years in that field the work grew rapidly, and a number of institutions were founded, including a college and sanitarium. It was in South Africa that Robinson instituted a new pattern of responsibility of departmental leaders to the conference that was adopted in denominational organization as a whole after the 1901 General Conference session. In 1894 Pieter Wessels and Robinson secured from Cecil John Rhodes, prime minister of the Cape Colony and chair of the Charter Company, a 12,000-acre (4,850-hectare) tract, on which the first permanent Seventh-day Adventist mission (Solusi) for the African people was established in 1894. Beginning in 1898, the Robinsons spent six years in various conferences in Australia, then returned to the United States. During the next 18 years he served as conference president in Nebraska, Colorado, and Southern New England. At the age of 71 he was appointed chaplain of the New England Sanitarium, and his wife served as Bible instructor among the patients. Retired at 80, Robinson lived near Pacific Union College until his wife's death in 1933, and from then until his death at the age of 99 he lived with a daughter. At the age of 95 he preached a sermon entitled 'The Blessed Hope' in the college church.

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Elder Asa Theron Robinson's memorial is located at: Sacred Heart Cemetery, Dowagiac, Cass County, USA.
When did Elder Asa Theron Robinson death?
Elder Asa Theron Robinson death on 8 Nov 1949 in Saint Helena, Napa County, California, USA
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Latitude: 42.0436980
Longitude: -86.1456440

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Loretta Viola Farnsworth Robinson

(1857 - 1933)

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