Edward Robinson has dirty boots

While very young, Edward chose to train as footman to the gentry of one of the Royal families. He took great delight in driving and caring for the stately pedigree horses of the Lords and Ladies and in taking charge of the blood hounds and race horses ready for the fox hunts. He had to dress exceedingly trim to be in the presence of these distinguished people, as he rode about with them as a footman in their fine carriages behind two span of immaculate white horses. He kept his fine English boots shined to perfection.

He developed a fine appreciation of nature, as he spent much time among the rustic flower gardens on the different manors. He later became a fine landscape artist himself


Aftet joining the church, Edward  traveled to Utah with the Ezra Taft Benson company, leaving there in the spring of 1849. At one time, Edward, still retaining his joyful and jolly humor, said as he held up his coarse boot, ''this old clod hopper doesn't look much like the fine polished English boots I wore in the gentry, but such is the price of a pioneer life." Edward drove two yoke of oxen to pull the two wagons and had two good cows, Paddy and Lily. Lily was a hard looker, as she had her tail bitten offvby a coyote when she was a calf. They had plenty of milk and a healthy diet.

On their arrival in Utah Edward was able to purchase a lot of land.  He was now a land owner instead of a footman to royalty, and best of all, in a free country where his family would be driven no more. It wasn't long until they built a six-room home. It was adobe brick, two rooms upstairs, four rooms downstairs. Edward landscaped it with lawns and shrubs. It was called by the townspeople "Robinson's Rose Comer."