Lawyer/Reformer
Centurion, 1866–1896
Born 5 March 1838 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Died 24 July 1896 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Buried Saint Matthew’s Episcopal Churchyard
, Bedford, New York
Proposed by Charles F. Blake
Elected 2 June 1866 at age twenty-eight
Archivist’s Note: Brother of Beverley Robinson; son-in-law of John Jay; uncle of John Jay Chapman, William Jay, and Beverley Randolph Robinson
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Century Memorial
Edmund Randolph Robinson, who was the great-grandson of Edmund Randolph, Governor of Virginia, and Attorney General and Secretary of State of General Washington, was a lawyer of high standing, whose associations had been with the leading members of the Bar here and elsewhere. A graduate of Harvard University and of its Law School, he completed his study of the law with George W. Biddle, of Philadelphia, and William Curtis Noyes of this city; was subsequently a partner of Henry A. Cram, and later of Judge Lewis H. Woodruff and Hamilton W. Robinson.
He was a conscientious, well-read lawyer, devoted to and proud of his profession and skillful in the conduct of important cases and the management of great corporations. He was one of the founders of the Association of the Bar, devoted to the cause of civil service reform, and served on the Civil Service Commission under Mayors Edson, Grace, Hewitt and Strong. He was prominent in the social life of New York, dispensed a charming hospitality, decorated his profession not only by his ability and integrity, but also by the grace of his manner and his high-bred courtesy.
Henry E. Howland
1897 Century Association Yearbook
