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3 unusual facts about William Drew Robeson I


Maria Louisa Bustill

Maria Louisa Bustill Robeson (November 8, 1853 – January 20, 1904) was a Quaker schoolteacher; the wife of the Reverend William Drew Robeson of Witherspoon Street Presbyterian Church in Princeton, New Jersey and the mother of Paul Robeson and his siblings.

She met William Drew Robeson I (1845-1918) when he was a student at Lincoln University.

William Drew Robeson I

In 1910 Robeson moved to Somerville, New Jersey, where he led the congregation at the Saint Thomas AME Zion Church.



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