Individual Biography

Robert Adrian

• Formal Name:
• First Date: 1806
• Last Date: 1806
• Function: Bookseller, Bookbinder
• Locales: Alexandria
• Precis: Employee in Alexandria bookstore of Peter Cottom (107) & John A. Stewart (402) in 1806.
• Notes: Bookseller and/or Bookbinder
  Alexandria
  Employee in Alexandria bookstore of Peter Cottom (107) & John A. Stewart (402) in 1806.
  Adrian is known to have been a part of the Virginia print trade from his appearance in the Alexandria city census for 1806. He was then either a bookbinder, store clerk, or both, for the firm of Cottom & Stewart, and lived with Stewart in the Second Ward. However, no further information on Adrian has been uncovered, leaving his identity and fate unknown.
  
  No Personal Data discovered.
  
  Sources: Artisans & Merchants.
  
• Related Bios:
  • Peter Cottom
  • John Ainsworth Stewart

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