Julia ROBINSON

1840 - 1899

• Born	1840	Michigan   [1, 2]
  Gender	Female
  Census	1870	Wayland, Allegan, MI   [3]
  	age 32
  Census	1880	Wayland, Allegan, MI   [1]
  	Age 40, father b. VT, mother b. NY
  bio notes	1899	Wayland, Allegan, MI   [4]
  	library funding
  _UID	8AF6CCAA1114446D95C070F2A58990C60750
  Died	20 Mar 1899	Wayland, Allegan, MI   [2]
  Person ID	I7038	OuthouseLine2014 | Descendants of Emanuel Henika b. 1757 Germany
  Last Modified	13 Aug 2013

  
  

  Family	George HENIKA,   b. 1838, Michigan ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Married	Y  [5]
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2004
  Family ID	F1224	Group Sheet

  
  

• Notes

  Upon her death in April 1899, Julia Robinson Henika bequeathed two thousand dollars to the Wayland Ladies Library Association for construction of a library building. Her husband George H. Henika, and mother, Mary Forbes, later donated additional funds toward its construction. Grand Rapids architect Fred H. Eely designed the building, which the Wayland Globe newspaper predicted would be "A Very Pretty and Modern Affair." The picturesque library opened in the spring of 1900. Although domestic in scale, the building gleans an impressive Richardsonian quality from the random ashlar fieldstone and Eely's design. The stone used in construction was gathered from a local farm.

  
  

• Sources

  [S180] Fed Census - 1880 - MI, Wayland, Allegan, MI (age, state) (Reliability: 3). [S407] Michigan Deaths and Burials Index, 1867-1995 (Ancestry). Name: «tab»Julia A. R. Henika [Julia A. R. Robinson] Birth Date: «tab»abt 1840 Birth Place: «tab»Allegan Co., Mich. Death Date: «tab»29 Mar 1899 Death Place: «tab»Wayland Vil., Allegan, Michigan Death Age: «tab»59 Race: «tab»White Marital Status: «tab»Married Gender: «tab»Female Father Name: «tab»John Robinson Mother Name: «tab»Mary Voke FHL Film Number: «tab»1017873 [S201] Federal Census, 1870 Wayland, Allegan, MI, Fam #53 (Reliability: 3). [S424] County History - Ancestry, A Twentieth Century history of Allegan County, Michigan, pg 558 (Reliability: 3). "Having the future educational welfare of Wayland at heart, Mrs. Julia Henika, one of the prominient and public-spirited women, bequeathed in her will the sum of two thousand dollars for the erection of a library. To this amount was added five hundred dollars by Mr. George H. Henika at one time, and again two hundred dollars; Mrs. Mary Forbes added five hundred dollars, and the village purchased the lots on which this handsome library stands, a credit to the community and a monument to the memory of those, especially Mrs. Henika, through whose generosity this building was made possible." [S152] Michigan Historical Markers.