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Society of Civil Engineers; the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers; a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education. The honorary degree of Sc.D. was conferred on liini by the Ohio State university in 1896. He was twice married: first, Deo. 29, 1863, to Mary Elizabeth Holden of Mount- liolly, Vt., who died in 1885; and secondly, April 13. 1888, to Mary Haines of Ada. Ohio. He in- vented many ai^pliances for various purposes c.)vered by some 40 patents, including several macliines used in shoe manufacture; and is the autlior of: Teeth of Gear WJieels and the Robin- son Templet Odontograph (1876); Railroad Econo- mics (1882); Strength of Wrought Iron Bridge Members (1882): Compound Steam Pumping En- gines (part 1 rev., and part 2, 1884); Analytical and Graphical Treatment; a college text book on Principles of MecJcanism (1396); and numer- ous articles on engineering and scientific sub- jects.

ROBINSON, Stuart, clergyman, was born in Strabane, county Tyrone, Ireland, Nov. 14, 1814; son of James and Martha (Porter) Robinson. His parents removed to New York city in 1815, and later to Berkeley county, Va., where his father died while he was a child. He was grad- uated from Amherst college, A.B., 1836, A.M., 1889; attended the Union Theologi- cal seminary, Rich- mond, Va., 1836-87; taught school, 1837- 39, and attended Princeton Theologi- cal seminary, 1839-41. He was married in 1841 to Mary E. Brig- ham of Charleston, who belonged to an old and wealtliy Vir- ginia family. He was ordained by the presby- tery of Greenbrier, Oct. 8, 1842; was pastor at Ivanawha. Salines, Va., 1841-47; Frankfort, Ky., 1847-52; Baltimore, Md., 1852-56; professor of church polity and pastoral theology at Danville Theological seminary, Ky., 1856-57, and pastor of the Second church, Louisville, 1858-81, except the years 1862-65, which he spent in Canada. He purchased TJie Presbyterian Herald and clianged its name to The True Presbyterian, and in 1862, his loyalty being questioned, the paper was sup- pressed, and he removed to Canada. In 1866 he resumed the publication of the paper, again changing its name to The Free Christian Common- wealth, lu 1869 he was chosen moderator of the

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general assembly of the Southern Presbyterian church; was a delegate to the Pan-Presbyterian alliance, held at Edinburgh in 1877, and secured the adoption of a revised book of government and discipline. The honorary degree of D.D. was conferred on him by Centre college in 1853. He is the author of: The Church of God as an Essen- tial Element of the Gospel (1858); Discourses of Redemption (1866), and many discourses on slav- ery, some of which were published in a volume. He died in Louisville, Ky., Oct. 5, 1881.

ROBINSON, William Callyhan, educator, was born at Norwich. Conn., July 26, 1834; son of John Adams and Mary Elizabeth (Callyhan) Robinson; grandson of Elias and Anna (Allyn) Roliason and of William and Betsy (Rogers) Callyhan; great-grandson of Andrew O'Calloghan an emigrant from Ireland, and a descendant of Elias Robinson of Ashford, Conn., a Revolution- ary soldier, and one of "Washington's body-guard on the retreat from Long Island. He attended Norwich academy; AVillistou seminary. East Hampton, Mass.; Providence Conference semi- nary. East Greenwich, R.I., Wesle\an university, Middle town, Conn., and was graduated from Dartmouth college, A.B., 1854, and from the Gen- eral Theological seminary of the P.E. church, 1857, being ordained in June of the same year. He served as missionary in Pittston, Pa., 1857-58; was rector at St. Luke's, Scranton, 1859-62; studied law with the Hon. H.B. Wright, Wilkes- barre, 1862-64, and was admitted to the bar in 1864. He practised law in New Haven, 1865-95; was an instructor in elementary law at Yale college. 1869-72, and professor of elementary and criminal law and the law of real proj^erty, 1873-96; judge of the city court. New Haven, 1869-71; and of the court of common pleas, 1874-76; a member of the state legislature, 1874, and Dean of the law schools of the Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., from 1895. He was first mar- ried, July 2, 1857, to Anna Elizabeth, daughter of Henry and Mary Magdalen (Jutau) Haviland of New York city; and secondly, March 31. 1891, to Ultima Marie, daughter of Juan Henrico and Ultima (Mermier) Smitli of Ytabo, near Cardenas, Cuba. The honorary degree of LL.D. was con- ferred upon him by Dartmouth in 1879 and that of A.M. b}" Yale in 1881. Dr. Robinson was as- sociate editor of the Catholic World of New York, 1869-70, having become converted to the Catholic faith in 1863, and is the author of Life of Eben- ezer Beriah Kelly (1855); Xotes on Elementary Law (1876); Elementary Laic (1882); Claris Re- rum (1883): Laiv of Patents (3 vols.. 1890); Fo- rensic Oratory (1893); Elements of American Jurisprudence (1900); Elements of American Laio (1903), and contributions to the Catholic World and the Catholic University Bulletin.