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EDMUND O. ROBERTSON, merchant. Mr. Robertson is a native of Franklin county, Missouri. His father James C. Robertson, and his mother Elizabeth P., nee Musick, were natives of Virginia. E. C. Robertson spent his early life clerking at various places. In 1864 he enlisted in the Federal army in Company K, Fortieth Missouri Infantry, and served until the close of the war. After the war he returned home and sold goods until 1868, when he went to St. Louis, where he served as deputy city assessor until 1879, when, on account of his wife’s health, he resigned and took her to Texas, where he spent two years. In the spring of 1882 he came to Carthage, where he bought T. T. Luscombe’s interest in the dry goods house of Luscombe & McElroy. This is one of the oldest and largest houses of its kind in the city, and has always done an extensive business. Mr. Roberston was married November 3, 1870, to Miss Mary L. Whitsett of Franklin county, Missouri, who died December 31, 1880, at Hutts, Texas, leaving three children, two girls and one boy.