Robinson, Charles Seymour – Robinson, James Sidney
Robinson, Charles Seymour
clergyman, author, was born March 31, 1829, in Bennington, Vt. He is a presbyterian clergyman of prominence in New York city, well known as an hymnologist.
Besides Laudes Domini, and other hymnals, he has published Church Work, a volume of sermons; Studies on the New Testament; Studies of Neglected Texts; The Pharaohs of the Bondage and the Exodus; Simon Peter, his Life and Work; Studies in Mark's Gospel; Simon Peter's Later Life and Labors; Sermons in Songs; and Sabbath Evening Sermons.
Robinson, Christopher
lawyer, congressman, was born in Rhode Island.
He was attorney general of Rhode Island; and was elected a representative from Rhode Island to the thirty-sixth congress. In 1861 he was appointed minister to Peru.
Robinson, Conway
lawyer, jurist, author, was born Sept. 15, 1805, in Richmond, Va. He devoted himself for many years to a revision of the civil and criminal code of Virginia; and he was the author of a number of valuable law works. He died Jan. 30, 1884, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Robinson, David
soldier, was born Nov. 4, 1754, in Hardwick, Mass.
He served through the war of 1812, attaining for meritorious service the rank of majorgeneral. He died Dec. 11, 1843.
Robinson, Edith
author, was born in 1858 in Massachusetts. She is a Boston novelist; and the author of A Forced Acquaintance; Penhallow Tales; and A Loyal Little Maid.
Robinson, Edward
merchant, state senator, was born in 1796 in Connecticut. He served two years in the Maine senate. He was a representative in congress from Maine during the years 1838 and 1839; and in 1840 was a presidential elector. He died Feb. 20, 1857
Robinson, Edward
educator, clergyman, author, was born April 10, 1794, in Southington, Conn. He was a distinguished congregational clergyman and biblical scholar of New York city, a professor in Union seminary in 1837-63, and the founder of the Bibliotheca Sacra. He was the author of Harmony of the Four Gospels, in Greek; Harmony of the Four Gospels, in English; Biblical Researches in Palestine; Physical Geography of the Holy Land; and A Greek and English Lexicon of the New Testament. He died Jan. 27, 1863, in New York city.
Robinson, Edward Breck
musician, poet, was born May 29, 1821, in Dorchester, Mass. He was the first organist of the First Parish church, Portland, Maine; and was a partner in the firm of Andrews and Robinson, manufacturers of pianos and organs. He is the author of a number of poems, some of which have been set to music.
Robinson, Edward Murphy
lawyer, legislator, was born March 11, 1872, in Stockton, Ala. He received the degree of B. A. from the university of Alabama, and the degree of LL. B. from the same institution. He studied law at the university of Virginia, and has attained success in that profession in his native state at Mobile. He has filled numerous public offices of trust, and in 1894-95 and 1896-97 served as a member of the state legislature, and was chairman of the committee on education in the house, and a member of the judiciary committee. He is also captain of the Mobile rifle company.
Robinson, Ezekiel Gilman
clergyman, college president, author, born March 23, 1815, in Attleborough, was Mass. He was a baptist clergyman and educator, president of the Brown university in 1872-89; and the author of Yale Lectures on Preaching; Principles and Practice of Morality; and Christian Evidences. He died in 1894.
Robinson, Fannie
educator, poet, was born Sept. 30, 1847, in Carlindale, Pa. She attended the Albany Female college, and Rutgers Female college. For twenty years she has been engaged in educational work, and most of the time as principal and preceptress. Her poems have appeared in Harper's Monthly, Cosmopolitan, and other leading magazines.
Robinson, Fayette
author, was born in Virginia. He was the author of Mexico and her Military Chieftains; Account of the Organization of the United States Army; California and the Gold Regions; Spanish Grammar; Wizard of the Wave, a romance; and a number of translations from the French. He died in 1859.
Robinson, Frank Torrey
journalist, author, was born in 1845 in Massachusetts. He is a journalist and art critic of Boston, and more recently one of the curators of the Metropolitan museum of New York city. He is the author of Quaint New England; Living New England Artists; and History of the Fifth Massachusetts Regiment of Volunteer Militia.
Robinson, Fred Ernest
poet, was born Feb. 22, 1865, in Cato, Wis. He is the author of a number of poems.
Robinson, George
lawyer, jurist, was born Oct. 1, 1835, in Hubbardston, Mass. For many years he was judge of the district court of East Hampton, Mass.
Robinson, George Dexter
lawyer, state senator, congressman, governor, was born Jan. 20, 1834, in Lexington, Mass. He was a representative in the Massachusetts state legislature in 1874; and a state senator in 1876. He was elected a representative from Massachusetts to the forty-fifth, forty-sixth, fortyseventh and forty-eighth congresses as a republican. In 1883 he was elected governor of Massachusetts, and resigned his seat in congress to assume the duties of that office from January, 1884; and was re-elected in 1884 and 1885.
Robinson, Mrs. Harriet Jane
[HANSON], suffragist, author, poet, was born Feb. 8, 1825, in Boston, Mass. She is a prominent woman suffragist of Malden, Mass. In her early life she was one of the contributors to the noted Lowell Offering; and the author of Massachusetts in the Woman Suffrage Movement; Captain Mary Miller, drama; Early Factory Labor in New England; and The New Pandora, a drama in blank verse. a
Robinson, Harry Perry
littérateur, author, was born in 1860 in East Indies. He is an English writer, resident in the United States from 1883, and now living in Chicago. He is a brother of Philip Robinson, the English writer. He is the author of Men Born Equal, a novel; and monographs on railway topics.
Robinson, Henry A
statistician, political economist, was born July 25, 1840, in Bay de Verte, N. B. His parents removed to the United States when he was seven years of age, first to Maine and then to Ohio. During the civil war he served a short time in the union army.
He studied law, was admitted to the bar, and practiced. He has, however, devoted his best energies to political economy and statistics, and has written extensively on these and kindred subjects. He has been labor commissioner and statistician of the labor bureau of Michigan. He has been president of the National Statistical association at Washington, D. C., and is now its first vice-president; and is a member of various other statistical bodies. He is a fluent speaker, and has done much platform talking on economical and political subjects.
Robinson, Henry Cornelius
lawyer, legislator, was born Aug. 28, 1832, in Hartford, Conn. He has been mayor of his native city; a representative in the Connecticut state legislature; and a member of the state constitutional convention.
Robinson, Horatio Nelson
educator, mathematician, author, was born Jan. 1, 1806, in Hartwick, N. Y.
He was a mathematician and educator of Cincinnati, Ohio, after 1854 a resident of Eldridge, N. Y. He was the author of University Algebra; Mathematical Recreations; Treatise on Surveying and Navigation; Treatise on Astronomy; and Analytical Geometry and Conic Sections He died Jan. 19, 1867, in Eldridge, N. Y.
Robinson, J. F
governor. He was governor of Kentucky from 1861 to 1863.
Robinson, James C
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born in 1822 in Edgar county, Ill. He was elected a representative from Illinois to the thirty-sixth congress, and was re-elected to the thirtyseventh and thirty-eighth congresses. He was elected to the forty-second and fortythird congresses as a democrat.
Robinson, James Hervey
state legislator, was born Jan. 31, 1802, in Morristown, N. J. He was chosen a member of the New Jersey legislature in 1840, and again in 1842, serving two terms, with credit to himself and to his constituency. a
Robinson, James M
machinist, lawyer, congressman, was born in 1861 in Allen county, Ind. At the age of fifteen he took employment in shop at Fort Wayne as a machine hand, and from that time till the present has supported and kept house with his mother; and while working at his trade he studied law. In 1881 he entered the office of Judge Walpole G. Colerick, who was then in congress; and in 1882 was admitted to practice in the state and United States courts. In 1886 and 1888 he was unanimously nominated for prosecuting attorney and elected, filling that position for four years.
He was unanimously nominated by the democrats in 1896 and elected to the fiftyfifth congress as a democrat, representing the twelfth congressional district of Indiana.
Robinson, James Sidney
soldier, journalist, state legislator, congressman, was born Oct. 14, 1827, near Mansfield, Ohio. In 1856 he was elected chief clerk of the Ohio house of representatives, and served two terms. He enlisted in the union army in 1861 and served throughout the war, rising to the rank of brigadier-general and brevet major-general. He was elected a representative from Ohio to the forty-seventh and forty-eighth congresses as a republican.