Edmund R. Robinson

Full Name: Edmund Randolph Robinson

Lawyer/Reformer

Centurion, 1866–1896

Proposed by
Charles F. Blake

born March 5, 1838
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

died July 24, 1896
New York (Manhattan), New York

elected June 2, 1866
Age twenty-eight

buried Saint Matthew’s Episcopal Churchyard,
Bedford, New York

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Member portrait of Edmund R. Robinson — Member Photograph Albums CollectionAlbum 3, Leaf 83

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Archivist’s Notes

Brother of Beverley Robinson; son-in-law of John Jay; uncle of John Jay Chapman, William Jay, and Beverley Randolph Robinson

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

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