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vases, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and is the author of : Did the Greeks Paint Tlieir Sculp- tures? {Century, April, 1893); and Annual Re- ports of the Trustees of the Museum of Fine Arts. ROBINSON, Ezekiel Oilman, educator, was born in Attleborougli, Mass., March 23, 1815 ; son of Ezekiel and Cynthia (Slack) Robinson ; and a lineal descendant of George Robinson, one of the original purchasers from the Indians of the town of Rehoboth, He was graduated from Brown university, A.B., 1838, A.M., 1841, and from the Newton Theological institution in 1842 ; was or- dained to the Baptist ministry in November, 1842, and was pastor at Norfolk, Va., 1842-45, being chaplain of the University of Virginia for one year while in Norfolk. He was married, Feb. 21, 1844, to Harriet Richards Parker, daugliter of Charles and Catharine (Packard) Richards and adopted daughter of Caleb Parker of Roxbury, Mass. He was pastor at Cambridge, Mass., 1845- 46 ; professor at the Covington Tlieological insti- tution, 1846-49 ; pastor in Cincinnati, Ohio, 1849- 52 ; professor at Rochester Tlieological seminary, 1852-60 ; president of the seminary, 1860-72 ; pres- ident and professor of moral and intellectual phil- osophy at Brown university, 1872-89 ; professor

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of apologetics and evidences of Christianity at Crozer Theological seminary, 1889-94, and pro- fessor of ethics and apologetics at the Univer.sity of Chicago, 1892-94. He was president of the American Baptist Missionary union, 1877-80 ; was a lecturer on systematic divinity at the Andover Theological seminary, 1882-83 : preacher at the Yale Divinity school, and a trustee of Vassar college, 1861-94. The honorary degree of D.D. was conferred on him by Brown university in 1853 and that of LL.D, by Brown in 1872 and by Harvard in 1886. He was editor of the Christian Revieiv, 1859-64 ; translated Neander's " Planting and Training of the Christian Chvu-ch " (1865) ; and is the author of : Lectures on Preaching (1883) ; Principle and Practice of Morality (1888) , and Christian Theology (1894). He died in Bos- ton, Mass., June 13, 1894.

ROBINSON, Frank Torrey, art critic, was born in Salem, Mass., July 16.1845; of English Quaker descent. His grandfather, who had im- migrated to America, was a soldier in the war of 1812. Frank Torrey Robinson attended the Har- vard and Warren schools in Charlestown, Mass., and in 1861 enlisted in the 5th Massachusetts vol- unteers, participating in the North Carolina and Virginia campaigns. Returning to Boston, he was employed for a year in the office of the Advertiser; subsequently completed his studies in Professor Spear's college, and after earning a precarious living by work in a wholesale grocery store, in a blacksmith shop and as a book-keeper, he adopted journalism as his profession, becoming local reporter for the Boston Journal, Advertiser and the Bunker Hill Times. He was married in 1871 to Mary Jane Tufts of Sonierville, Mass. He began to make a specialty of art criticism in 1^75 ; edited the Boston Sunday Times, 1879-83 ; was art director for the New England Manufacturers' institute, 1883-86, editing their art catalogue and an '"Art Year Book," 1883; was afterward con- nected as art critic with the Boston Traveler and Post ; edited Ainerican Art, Boston, 1886-88, and for several years served as literary curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York city, whose catalogues and handbooks he also edited. In 1897 he traveled abroad, selecting in London and Paris the pictures exhibited in the Jordan Art gallery, 1898. He was a member of the Paint and Clay club, Boston, serving as chairman of its house committee in 1897. His publications in- clude : History of the 5th Regiment, Massachu- setts Volunteers ; Quaint New England ; Living Nev) England Artists (1888); Christmas Morning (1890), and Winds of the Seasons (1890) . He died in Roxbury, Mass.. June 3, 1898.

ROBINSON, George Dexter, governor of Massa- chusetts, was born in Lexington. Mass., Jan. 20, 1834 ; son of Charles and Mary (Davis) Robinson ; grandson of Jacob and Hannah (Simonds) Robin- son and of Abel and Lavinia (Hosmer) Davis, and a descendant of William Robinson, who was born April 20, 1682, and of Joseph Hosmer, who served as adjutant at Concord, April 19, 1775. He was brought up on his father's farm ; attended Lexington academy and Hopkins classical scliool, and was graduated from Harvard, A.B., 1856, A.M., 1859. He was principal of the high school at Chicopee, Mass., 1856-65 ; was admitted to the bar in Cambridge, 1866, and began practice in Chicopee. He was married, Nov. 24, 1859, to Hannah E., daughter of William and Nancy (Pierce) Stevens of Lexington, Mass. She died Sept. 5, 1864, and on July 11, 1867, he married Susan E., daughter of Joseph F. and Susan (Mulli-» ken) Simonds of Lexington. He was a menibeu of the general court of Massachusetts, 1874^^^