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educator, was born Dec. 15, 1854, in East Orrington, Maine. His work in Franklin gave him a reputation as a prominent educator in New Hampshire, and led to his being elected president of the State Teachers' association.
ROBINSON, WILLIAM ERIGENA, journalist, lawyer, congressman, was born May 6, 1814, in Ireland. He was a frequent writer for the New York Herald; and in 1844 became identified with the New York Tribune, signing his communications Richelieu. In 1848 and 1849 he became identified as editor with a weekly paper called The People. He practiced law in New York from 1853 to 1862; and in 1862 was appointed United States assessor of internal revenue for the city of Brooklyn. In 1866 he was elected a representative from New York to the fortieth congress; and was again a representative in the forty-seventh and fortyeighth congresses as a democrat. He died Jan. 23, 1892, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
ROBINSON, WILLIAM STEVENS, -Warrington-journalist, author, born Dec. 7, 1818, in Concord, Mass. He was a journalist of Boston long known as the Boston correspondent of the New York Tribune and the Springfield Republican. He was the author of The Salary Grab; Manual of Parliamentary Practice; Warrington's Pen Portraits; and Personal and Political. He died March 11, 1876, in Malden, Mass. was