Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1862-03-06

Ircs'uchthai i'ce'ois anu United Sa,,
Senators. The six votes OF Vermont w..
giving to James Madison, for Presia.,
George Clinton of New York, was 4
candidate of the Republican Party "a, 4
office of Vice President. His cours.
the troubles between the New Han.
shire Grants" and New York, Wa, =
well remembered by the people of V,
mont, and although the controversy IA,
long since been settled-they had Meth.
| forgotten or forgiven the leader, of Il.
State of New York, They therefore 90.
the six votes of Vermont for John Ian,
don of New Hampshire COR Vice Preside,
Jonathan Robinson was elected Un,.
States Senator from Vermont for Il,
term of six years from the 4th of MarB
1909. His term of service embraced 4.
entire period of the war of 1872. MI
1
voted for his declaration of war, and v
tanned by his influence and votes all n
leading measures of the administers,
4" He was a man of pleasant and insina
ting address, and by his talent and poi
ical shrewdness occupied a leading Do
ton in the republican party of the Sta
for many years. While in the Senate
was understood to have the ear and ca
fidence of President Madison, and to hs,
a controlling influence in the distrbuio
of the army and other patronage Of d
administration within this state, which
consequence of the war with England n
then very great"
The annual election of 1914, resup
{ in the defeat of the Republican Pan
The Federalists elected their GoyeS.
, and the other State officers, and bad
majority in the General Assembly. CO.
ernor Tichenor was elected United Sasa
Senator, to take his seat on the Ali
March 1915, at which time the teruI
which Judge Robins son had been eleas
I expired.
. Judge Robinson remained in the Sem
q till the expiration of his term, and It'd
returned to Bennington.
, The election in the fall OF 1916 show
another change in the political comps
Is ion of the State. The Federalists We
e defeated. The Republicans, .once mo
Il had the control of state affairs. The L
- isIature was, also, largely Republican, /
upon them devolved the choice of eleea
of President and Vice President. Ja
, than Robinson was chosen one OF b
electors at large, and mis- colleagues W
: of course, also, of that party. The es
nj votes of Vermont were given for Jsi
, Monroe Of Virginia, for President 1
D Daniel D. Tompkins of New YORK
I'd Vice President.
o. At the same session of the Legislatg
he was elected Judge of Probate for !
District of Bennington. This Office
Is held by annual reflections till his deaf
y He commenced, as we have seen, put
life, in 1882, as Register of Probate !.
the Southern District of Bennington ca
y ty-after being in active public life /
J thirty-seyen years--flling, with hon
% the highest legislative and judicial STATIC
# in the gift of his fellow citizens, his pub
career was closed by death in 1919, wH
e discharging the duties of Judge Of /;
same Probate district.
&c Dartmouth College, in 1890, confer
ID on him the honorary degree of MastdI
- Arts.
u Judge Robinson married Mary, dau:
n, ter of John Fassett, who was Captain |
IS probably, the first military comp
l. formed in the present limits of the s.
of Vermont. She was sister Of u
Fasset, Jr.. one of the first two repre-
10 tatives from Arlington, and afterwar5
Id Councillor and Judge of the Sup4
in Court of Vermont. His children u
n Jonathan E., graduated at Williams
" lege, in 1897, lawyer by profeSsoI
ed Judge of Bennington County Court I
n died in 1881; Henry, who was Payn3I
h. ter in the army, Clerk in the Pens
- Office, Brigadier General of the Min
10 Clerk of the Supreme and County COZ
tn for Bennington County, and died in lSI
N, Isaac t., still living at Bennington I
ar Mary, who married Hon. ORsAau'
MERRILL, for time Member Of y
>" gress from Vermont.
r. Judge Jonathan Robinson died at y
of nington on the Sd day of November 10y
a. in the Gath year of his age.