He had become a gentlemen farmer , although his children by his first wife remained to the north , and others moved out of the Chicago area . His son David Robinson would die as a Union private in a military hospital in Murfreesboro , Tennessee during the American Civil War , but Robinson continued to regale visitors about meeting Abraham Lincoln long before . After the Great Chicago Fire , Robinson returned to the city to view the scene from the Lake Street bridge , reportedly exclaiming " Once more I can see the prairie of the past . " Eventually , his youngest child , Mary Ann Robinson Ragor became the family matriarch into the 20th century
Great Chicago Fire
Great Chicago Fire
Alexander Robinson (chief)