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P. H. Robertson has been a successful merchant of Scott’s Station, Mo., almost continuously since the close of the war. He is a Virginian, born in 1830, and was the third of seven children born to Washington and Deniza (Page) Robertson, who spent their lives in the State of Virginia, dying in 1847 and 1845, respectively, the father having been a carpenter by trade. P. H. Robertson remained on the farm until his father’s death, then learned the blacksmith’s trade, and went to work in a machine shop in Richmond, Va., where he remained seven years. He then worked at his trade in various places in Virginia, until the beginning of the war, when he enlisted in the Confederate army, and served throughout the entire war. Miss Teaxanna Drinkard, a native of Virginia, became his wife, and after the close of the war they came to Missouri, and settled at Scott’s Station, where Mr. Robertson bought a tract of land and secured employment from the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company to run a stationary engine at that place, and was engaged in this occupation for seventeen years. Almost immediately after locating here he erected a house, and soon after a store (1873), which he has conducted successfully up to the present time. On opening his store he received the commission of postmaster of Scott’s Station, and has served through four administrations, and during this time has farmed to some extent. In 1883 he was divorced from his wife, and sometime after married Miss Caroline Jeffries, a native of Virginia, who came to Missouri with her parents in 1840, settling in Pike County. Mr. Robertson has one son, named Melvin Edwards. He is an active and enterprising man, and has always supported enterprises that were for the public good.