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Roane, John T

congressman. He was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1809 to 1815.

Roane, Spencer

lawyer, jurist, state senator, author, was born April 4, 1762, in Essex, Va. He was successively a member of the assembly, council and senate. In 1789 he was appointed a judge of the general court; and in 1794 a judge of the court of errors.

Roane, William Harrison

congressman, United States senator, was born in 1788 in Virginia. He was twice elected a member of the executive council of Virginia; and was once a delegate to the general assembly. He was a representative in congress from 1815 to 1817; and was a senator of the United States from 1837 to 1841. He died May 11, 1845, in Tree Hill, Va.

Robb, James Burch

lawyer, author, was born April 14, 1817, in Baltimore, Md. He prepared and published a valuable compilation of Patent Cases in Supreme and County Courts of the United States to 1850, in two volumes. He died Nov. 3, 1876, in Boston, Mass.

Robb, James Hampden

banker, state senator, was born Oct. 27, 1846, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a member of the legislature of New York in 1882; and state senator in 1884-85.

Robb, W. H

journalist, state legislator, was born in 1856, in Williamsport, Pa. For over a quarter of a century he has been the editor and owner of the Independent American of Creston, Iowa, a daily and weekly newspaper, and one of the ablest reform journals in the United States. He has served two terms as a member of the Iowa state legislature.

Robbins, Asher

lawyer, state senator, was born Oct. 26, 1757, in Wethersfield, Conn. He was United States district attorney in 1812. He was a leading senator in congress from Rhode Island from 1825 to 1839; and was a member of the Rhode Island legislature for many years.

He died Feb. 25, 1845, in Newport, R. I.

Robbins, Chandler

clergyman, author, was born Aug. 24, 1738, in Branford, Conn. He published A Reply to John Cotton's Essays on Baptism; An Address at Plymouth to the Inhabitants assembled to celebrate the victories of the French Republic over their Invaders; An Anniversary Sermon on the Landing at Plymouth; and other discourses. He died June 30, 1799, in Plymouth, Mass.

Robbins, Chandler

was born Feb. 14, 1810, in Lynn, Mass. He was a unitarian clergyman of Boston, pastor of the Second church in 1833-74; and the author of Liturgy for the Use of a Christian Church; History of the Second or Old North Church; Memoir of Benjamin Curtis; and Portrait of a Christian Drawn from Life. He died Sept. 11, 1882, in Weston, Mass.

Robbins, Edward Everett

lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Sept. 27, 1860, in Westmoreland county, Pa. He was admitted to the Westmoreland, Pa., bar in 1884, and at once engaged in the practice of law; and was nominated for district attorney in 1886.

He was elected in 1888 to the state senate, and served in that body till 1892. He is major and quartermaster of the second brigade, state militia; and was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.

Robbins, Eliza

educator, author, was born in 1786 in Massachusetts. She was an educator in Boston for many years; and the author of Elements of Mythology; Grecian History; and Tales from American History. She died in 1853.

Robbins, Francis Le Baron

clergyman, was born May 2, 1830, in Camillus, N. Y. He took up the work of founding a church in Kensington, the center of the manufacturing district of Philadelphia. In this he succeeded, and in 1886 the Beacon Presbyterian church was dedicated. con-