Andrew Robeson Jr.

His father, who was a native of Roxborough, Philadelphia, was a Quaker and Abolitionist, who became a prominent merchant and successful manufacturer in New Bedford under the name Messrs. Robeson & Sons.

[1] In 1839, he graduated with a degree in medicine from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia but chose a career in business instead.

From 1848 until his death, he was in charge of the Print Works at Fall River, Massachusetts and he was also involved in various interests in Boston.

Through his daughter Alice, he was a grandfather of Stephen Van Rensselaer Thayer Jr. (1871–1907), who died in Vichy, France.

[8][10] In honor of Robeson and his wife, his daughter Alice commissioned Harry Eldridge Goodhue to create stained glass windows for Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Boston depicting Simeon and Anna.