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.