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The 1910 census shows George's two brothers Benjamin and Henry living together and taking care of their youngest sister Helen, age 12. Between 1892 and 1896, George Robinson spent time between Louisville and working at mine camps in Summerville, CO — a gold mining camp northeast of Boulder. He must have already met Margaret Ferguson in Louisville and they married in 1896. A humorous announcement of their engagement appeared in the August 3, 1896 issue of the Boulder Daily Camera. 'seorge Robitazon, a luacious yuut1 cif u mmervil1e—and a guuti my at that — .]lined b.atais with Maggie Ferguson, of • LLuisvi.lIe, to -day, iviitt.c Dr. Tey is earn- .ed fee and mare "onc out of thy. two." Margaret was the daughter of James R. Ferguson (1835-1892) and Jane Brown Ferguson (1838-1911), Scottish immigrants who came to the US in 1870. They first lived in Illinois with their four oldest children (Janet b. 1860, Robert b. 1864, Jane b. 1867, and Maxwell b. 1868). Margaret (1875-1948) and her younger sister Sarah (b. 1879) were born in Illinois. The Ferguson family moved to Louisville around 1888 when Margaret was 13 years old. Her father, James Ferguson worked as a coal miner in Illinois and then in Louisville until his death in 1892. Margaret and her siblings put down roots in Louisville and descendants of the Ferguson family still live in Louisville today. In 1904, when George Robinson purchased Lots 6 & 7 Block 7, The Robinsons had one daughter, Eliza (b. 1897). George's uncle, William Robinson had purchased the neighboring Lots 8 & 9 the same year and his parents lived nearby in the Little Italy neighborhood. Margaret also had brothers living just a few blocks away on Grant and Jefferson. It is assumed that George and Margaret Robinson built the house at 720 Grant in 1904. The Drumm's Wall Map of 1909 shows a structure on the property and the 1948 Boulder County Assessor card notes the year of construction as 1904. Drumm's Wall Map of 1909 showing Lots 6 & 7, Block 7 of the Pleasant Hill Addition.