The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-08-17
gagged in the construction of the Panama

gagged in the construction Of the Panama
railroad, then being bulls.
He was stopping at Havana at the time
of the Inflated expedition of Lopez,
which eliminated in his death, and there
learned, in Witnessing his execution, the
sure fate of all who fight against tyranny,
and fail
He reached his home in Fitchburg late
in the fall Of 1851, aud there resumed
the practice of medicine, which he con-
tlnued until 1884 with great success.
About the time of the organization Of
the Emigrant Aid society, he published
series Of letters concerning the Kansas
country through which he passed in
1S4J. which awakened a wides pread in
terest in the unknown land, and drew the
attention Of the managers of the Organi-
zation TO the writer as an indispensable
agent for the execution of the proposed
work of selecting homes for free state
emigranrs, aud otherwise carrying out
the openly avowed object Of the society
to make Kansas a free state under the
conditions which the Kansas \ ebraska
bill had prescribed
He thus became one of the heralds of
free state emigration to Kansas. and
designated to the society as the best OBJ
jective point for a free state settlement
in the territory, the land that lay along
the bottoms Of the Kansas river, at the
foot Of the hill he had climbed in 1S49.
There the first party pitched their
tents, and there Robinson made his own
home September 6. 1854 at which time
he and his family arrived He with S.
c. PomerOy, was the conductor of the
second party Of New England emigrants
lit being the first made up of families
who came for bona fide settlement. He
chose his home on Mount Dread, west of
the site of Lawrence.
II was the first governor chosen un-
der the Topeka constitution. and the first
commandments chief Of the free state
militia. The Wyandatte constitution,
under the forced recognition of CON
gress, having been adopted, he was
under its provisions chosen the
first governor OF the free state Of Kan
sas. aud, in that position. organized un-
der the laws the military forces upon
war basis. for the final struggle in which
Kansas troops won fresh iaurels and i'm
perishable renOwn.
After the destruction Of his home on
Mount Dread, at the time Of the sack of
Lawrence in 1886, he did not rebuild
His present home IS on a beautiful farm
some three miles north of the city Of
Lawrence.
Mr.. Robinson was married in Novem-
ber 1S43, to Miss Sarah Adams, daugh
ter of William Adams Of West Brook
field. Mass Two children we're born to
them, both Of whom died in infancy.
Mrs Robinson died January II, 1916
October 30, 1881, he married Miss
Sara T. L. Lawrence, daughter OF
Hon. Myron Lawrence, an eminent
lawyer and statesman Of Massachusetts.
Her mother was Clarissa (Dwight) Law
renee.
She was Of the New England family Of
Dwights, Of western II Eassachusetts. of
which President Dwight Of Y ale college,
is a mem Der. She is the author of Kan
sas; its Interior and Exterior Life" a
book which, in its time. was a not un-
worthy rival Of Uncle Toms Cabin, and
it did scarcely less, IN its sphere. to rouse
the northern hear. in the early years of
the Kansas struggle. Governor Robin
son has no living children.