The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . ent candidate, but was defeated. In 1847 organized a movement for the relief ofIreland, and secured the authorization from congressfor sending the U. 8. frigate Macedon
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . ent candidate, but was defeated. In 1847 organized a movement for the relief ofIreland, and secured the authorization from congressfor sending the U. 8. frigate Macedonian with pro-visions to his native land. He was an active mem-ber of the land league, always maintaining, how-ever, that force alone would bring the Bntish togrant freedom to Ireland. Mr. Robinson was a manof commanding presence—above the average height,with curling gray locks, strongly marked features,and well-knit frame, he was a distinguished figurewherever he went. He was married, in 1858, toHelen A. Dougherty, a daughter of George Dough-erty, of Newark, N. J. His son, John E. Robinson,is a well-known newspaper man. Mr. at Brooklj^n, N. Y., Jan. 23, 1892. Dr. Tal-mage, in delivering his funeral oration, in speakingof his journalistic work, said: Among all the relicsby his sons and daughters kept sacred, keep mostsacred your fathers pen. It was a graceful instru- OP AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 117. ^fift c-t^a:*/^ ment, and from it dropped what rhythms, what wit,what sadness, what graphic description of men andthings, and, when they were demanded, what satireand righteous seorn ! Yes, keep that pen; for thereare not many like it—so fertile and so of that pen were whole libraries. His work,like thousands of those forgotten, has been built upinto the grandeur and intelligence of the Americannation. HAMILTON, Robert, lawyer, was born atHamburg, Sussex county, N. J., Dec. 9, 1809, son ofBenjamin Hamilton, a member of the governorscouncil under the ol
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