. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . ofthe modern gradedschool: he workedso hard as a law stu-dent that he devotedonly one year to apreparation that or-dinarily requiresthree. To sustainthis labor he broughta splendid physicaldevelopme n t fromthe old farm in Lex-ington, where heworked as a boy, lay-ing then the founda-tions of a constitu-tion which has stoodthe wear of nearlyforty years of unre-mitting devotion tothe duties of man-hood, with hardly aday of illness, andwhich promises manyyears
. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . ofthe modern gradedschool: he workedso hard as a law stu-dent that he devotedonly one year to apreparation that or-dinarily requiresthree. To sustainthis labor he broughta splendid physicaldevelopme n t fromthe old farm in Lex-ington, where heworked as a boy, lay-ing then the founda-tions of a constitu-tion which has stoodthe wear of nearlyforty years of unre-mitting devotion tothe duties of man-hood, with hardly aday of illness, andwhich promises manyyears more of activeprofess i o n a 1 of an old colo-nial family, Jan. 20, 1834, his childhood days were passedin Lexington. He prepared for college at the HopkinsClassical School, Cambridge, and graduated at Harvardin 1856. The following nine years he had charge ofthe Chicopee High School; then studied law with hisbrother, and in 1866, having been admitted to the barin Cambridge, began the practice of law at Chicopee :elected to the Massachusetts House of Representativesin 1873, and to the Senate in 1875 ; in 1878, elected to. GEORGE D. ROBINSON Congress, and re-elected in 1880 and 1881 ; electedgovernor of the Commonwealth in 1883, and re-electedin 1884 and 1885. Those are the dry facts of career. Behind them lies a character thathas won for him not only worldly success, but esteemand confidence. In Congress he applied himself tounderstanding the business of the House, and speedilybecame an authority upon it and upon parliamentarylaw. Although not an adherent of Speaker Keifer, the latter frequentlycalled him to thespeaker s chair,where he made amost effective presid-ing officer, many ofhis rulings havingsince been incorpo-rated in the manualof the House. first cam-paign for the govern-orship is green in thememory of everyMassachusetts masses of factsand fi g u r e s, w i thwhich he combatedEx-Governor Butleron the stump nightafter night
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