Robinson, James W – Robinson, Mrs. Therese Alber-
Robinson, James W
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Nov. 28, 1826, in Union county, Ohio. He was elected to the Ohio legislature in 1858, 1860, and 1864; and was elected to the fortythird congress.
Robinson, John
clergyman, author, was born Jan. 8, 1768, in Cabarrus county, N. C. He was the author of a work entitled Eulogy on Washington. He died Dec. 14, 1843.
Robinson, John Buchanan
naval officer, journalist, congressman, was born May 23, 1846, in Allegheny City. He is at present proprietor of the Media Ledger and is the largest stockholder in the West Chester Publishing company, West Chester, Pa. He was elected to the state legislature, lower house, 1884; re-elected in 1886; was elected to the state senate in 1889; and elected to the fifty-second congress in 1890. He was re-elected to the fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses as a republican.
Robinson, John Bunyan
clergyman, lecturer, author, poet, was born April 11, 1834, in Osceola, Ohio. In 1860 he graduated at the Ohio Wesleyan university. He has been principal of the Mount Washington seminary, near Cincinnati; and was successively president of Willoughby college, Fort Wayne college, New Hampshire seminary and Female college, and Jennings seminary. He has lectured extensively; and is the author of Infidelity Considered; Vinves of Eshcol; Commencements; and various other prose works; and a volume of poetical works entitled Emeline. He is represented in Poets of America and other standard works.
Robinson, John Cleveland
soldier, was born April 10, 1817, in Binghamton, N. Y. He was brevetted a major-general of the United States army.
He participated in the Mexican war, Seminole war, Indian troubles in Texas, Mormon troubles in Utah, and served with distinction through the civil war. In 1872 he was chosen lieutenant-governor of his state.
Robinson, John Hovey
physician, author, was born in 1825 in Maine. He is a physician who wrote a large number of sensational romances of slight literary merit, among which are, White Rover; Nightshade; and Silver-Knife.
Robinson, John L
congressman, was born in Kentucky. He was a representative in congress from Indiana from 1847 to 1853. In 1857 he was appointed United States marshal for the district of Indiana. He died March 21, 1860, in Indiana.
Robinson, John M
lawyer, jurist, United States senator, was born in 1793 in Kentucky. He was one of the early settlers of Illinois, and one of the judges of the supreme court of that state. He was a senator in congress from 1830 to 1842. He died April 27, 1843, in Ottawa, Ill.
Robinson, John Staniford
lawyer, state legislator, governor, was born Nov. 10, 1804, in Bennington, Vt. He was for many years in the state legislature; and was governor of Vermont from 1853 to 1854. He died April 24, 1860, in Cherleston, S. C.
Robinson, Jonathan
lawyer, jurist, United States senator, was born Aug. 24, 1756, in Hardwick, Mass. He was appointed chief justice of Vermont in 1801; and in 1806 was elected a senator in congress, serving from 1807 to 1815. He died Nov. 3, 1819, in Bennington, Vt.
Robinson, Leora Bettison
educator, author, was born June 8, 1840, in Little Rock, Ark. Together with her husband she established the Holyoke academy of Louisville, Ky. She is the author of House with Spectacles; Than; Patsy; and other works.
Robinson, Lucius
lawyer, state legislator, governor, was born Nov. 4, 1810, in Windham, N. Y. He was district attorney of Greene county, N. Y., from 1837 to 1840. In the latter year he moved to New York city; and in 1843 was appointed commissioner in chancery. In 1859 he was elected a representative in the New York legislature; and was re-elected in 1860. In 1861 he was elected comptroller of the state; and was re-elected in 1863.
In 1871 he was a member of the state constitutional commission; in 1875 was again elected comptroller; and in 1876 was elected governor of New York.
Robinson, Mrs. Martha Harri- Son
author, was born in Virginia. She is a writer of Philadelphia who has published a number of translations from the French, and Helen Erskine, an original novel.
Robinson, Martin L
educator, lawyer, was born Oct. 18, 1860, in Paintsville, Ky. For fifteen years he was engaged in educational work; and is now a successful lawyer of Boons Camp, Ky., where he is prominent in public affairs.
Robinson, Mrs. Mary Dommet
[NAUMAN], author, was born in Pennsylvania. She is a novelist of Lancaster, Pa.; and the author of Twisted Threads; Sidney Elliot; The Enchanted Princess; Clyde Wardleigh's Promise; and Eva's Adventures in Shadowland.
Robinson, Merritt M
lawyer, author, was born about 1810 in Louisiana.
He was the reporter of the supreme court of Louisiana from 1841 till 1847. He published a useful Digest of the Penal Laws of Louisiana, Analytically Arranged. His Reports, comprising sixteen volumes, including four that he edited, were riched with valuable marginal notes. He died June 5, 1850, in Louisiana. en-
Robinson, Milton S
soldier, lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born April 20, 1832, in Versailles, Ind. He entered the army as lieutenant-colonel; and rose to the rank of brevet brigadier-general. He was a member of the state senate from 1867 to 1870; and in 1874 was elected a representative from Indiana to the forty-fourth congress; and was reelected to the forty-fifth congress as a republican.
Robinson, Moses
state legislator, governor, United States senator, was born March 15, 1741, in Hardwick, Mass. He served in the legislature of Vermont; and was governor of that state from 1789 to 1790. He was a member of the senate of the United States from Vermont under the administration of President Washington from 1791 to 1796. He died May 26, 1813, in Bennington, Vt.
Robinson, Orrin W
lumber merchant, state senator, was born Aug. 12, 1834, in Claremont, N. H. In 1873 he organized the Sturgeon River Lumber company of Chassell, Mich., of which he is still president. He was a member of the Michigan house of representatives in 1896; and served with distinction as a member of the state senate in 1897-98.
Robinson, Orville
congressman, was born in New York. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1843 to 1845; and also served four years in the assembly of that state from Oswego county.
Robinson, Rowland Evans
farmer, author, was born in 1833 in Vermont. He is a farmer of Ferrisburgh, Vt.; and the author of Danvis Folks, a novel; Vermont: a Study of Independence; Uncle 'Lisha's Shop; and In New England Woods and Fields.
Robinson, Samuel
soldier, was born Aug. 9, 1738, in Hardwick, Mass. He was the first justice of the peace appointed in town under the authority of Vermont in 1778, and was also during the same year one of the judges of a special court. He died May 3, 1813, in Bennington, Vt.
Robinson, Sara Tappan Doolit- Tle
author, was born July 12, 1827, in Belchertown, Mass. She is the wife of the late ex-Governor Charles Robinson, frequently called the war governor of Kansas. She received a thorough education in the classical school of her native city, now known as Salem academy. Mrs. Robinson is the author of Kansas, its Interior and Exterior Life, a book which was widely circulated and had great influence in the Kansas struggle. She is a pleasing writer, and has contributed extensively to the periodical press. She was the daughter of Myron Lawrence, a distinguished lawyer, who did his state great honor in various public capacities.
Robinson, Solon
journalist, author, was born Oct. 21, 1803, near Tolland, Conn.
He was a journalist of New York city long known as an agricultural writer for The Tribune, and after 1870 a resident of Jacksonville, Fla. He was the author of Hot Corn, or Life Scenes in New York, a very popular book for a short period; Facts for Farmers, which was extensively circulated; How to Live, or Domestic Economy Illustrated; and Me-won-i-toc.
He died Nov. 3, 1880, in Jacksonville, Fla.
Robinson, Stillman Williams
educator, civil engineer, author, was born March 6, 1838, in South Reading, Vt. He is a civil engineer, professor of physics at Ohio State university from 1878; and the author of Practical Treatise on the Teeth of Wheels; Railroad Economics; and Strength of Wrought-Iron Bridge Materials.
Robinson, Stuart
clergyman, author, was born Nov. 14, 1814, in Ireland. He is a presbyterian clergyman of prominence in Louisville; and the author of Discourses of Redemption; and The Church of God. He died Oct. 5, 1881, in Louisville, Ky.
Robinson, Mrs. Therese Alber-
TINE LOUISE [VON JAKOB]-Talviauthor, was born in 1797 in Georgia. She was an able and learned author who wrote both in English and German, using the pseudonym Talvi in the latter case.
She was the author of Characteristik der Volkslieder germanischen Nationen; Die Unechtheit der Lieder Ossians; Aus der Geschichte der ersten Ansiedelungen in den Vereinigten Staaten; Die Colonisation von New England; Fifteen Years, a Picture from the Last Century; Historical View of the Language and Literature of the Slavic Nations. She also wrote a number of stories which her daughter translated from the German, including Psyche; Heloise; Life's Discipline; and The Exiles. She died in 1869.