The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-10-11

Theological SelIIlldIS CuH WHO ms Wv ~
name" "And L am glad to see re-
piled Hewitt, that justice OF the
peace can read it,
The war Of 1912 then ragged, and the
theologue, with his brother Samuel
from Yale, spent part of their vacation
in Offering battle going down in Gull
ford company with their muskets to
meet the British, who threatened an
attack at Sachems Head but, who,
seeing the preparations made to re-
ceive them, remained peacefully in
their barges.
Leaving Andover in 1916, MIR. Robin
son spent the year 1917 as senior tutor
at Bowdoin college, and ever after re-
called its president, DIR. Jesse Appleton,
as, among the noble worthless he had
known. Among his pupils there were
Prof. Jacob Abbott, author of the Rollo
books, and DR.. Rufus Anderson long
secretary of the Foreign Missionary
society. He received that year the de-
gree of Master of Arts from both Yale
and Bowdoin. Near these days, If not
earlier, my father was invited to be tu-
tor at Yale, but anxious to begin his
chosen profession, he declined the hon
or.
Mr.. Robinson found people with an
empty pulpit In Morris, Conn, and set
tied there in 1S23He remained six
years, when his health and voice failed,
and he took a dismission. 1t is not
strange that going from the sea-level Of
Guilford to those defenceless hills,
! where there Is nothing but wind to
hide behind when winds blow, he
should have been blown away at the
end Of six years.
1t was our fathers fate to be invited
always to hilly and high, windy towns
for settlements, as in later charges al
Suffleld, Putnam and Plainfeld, which
are all hilltop towns rather badly fa-
nous for the blowing down of barns
and houses, while at Plainfeld the very
church was blown to the ground In the
! September gale Of 1917. We remember
when the call came from Plainfied,
| knowing how terribly the winds blow
| there, he had two stout top-coats con-
structed, and specially rugged with high
collars and large, heavy buttons to bal
last him and keep him from being
| blown away
| Father never could stand long against
| the extra airs of these hill towns, and
after fighting their hurricanes and 9TH
er evils six years in Suffield 1S3137, and
seven in East Putnam, 1S3S-45, and
nine in Plainfleld 1878 he gave UP
the contest and retired in 1856 to the
old home-haven, Guilford, where in
sharp contrast to these shorter periods,
he lived % years, not quite with
| out winds and storms, but in general
p,,I r4t,r, boz
Der a. 1878, nearly ninety years of age.
Rev. Henry Robnson's first marriage
QS23) was with Weltha f. Brown,
daughter of William Brown, Esq, of
Hartford. OF their four children. one
son and three daughters one daughter
survives at Gullford.
Mrs. Robinson, who died at Suffield
in 1888 Is described as a woman of
graceful person and loveable qualities,
the favorite Of Mrs Sgourney, the poet.
Mr. Robinson's second marriage QS3O
was with Mary Cushing, daughter of
the Rev. Ebenezer Gay, of Sutileld. OF
two daughters and one son, one daugh-
ter and the writer are now living. Our
mother, the second wife. died In 1885,
aged nearly eghty-four; she was de-
scended from John Cotton, William
Pynchon and Henry Whitfield.
My father started In earlyllfe an ath- |
letic young man, and stories are told of
his leapng fences with boy in his
arms He declared that the change
from this active, leaping life to a schol-
ar's career, bordering over problems,
standing in pulpits, ashing himself to
forced writing and going against the
wind broke down or injured his constl-
tuition. so that his life was running
fight with frailty, and he had always
two faithful foes about him, influenza
and crlck-in-t the back
He was natural musician and began
as a boy In the village choir, singing
counter" to his father, Colonel Robin
sons bass-vioI. From this he advanced
to leading, during senior year, the mu-
sic In the chapel at Yale. The tuning
fork remains with which he pitched"
and set going, with fa-so-la, old Dun
dec and sweet Boyston and doeful
China, that was much used in sad
emergency to bury people by; not that
1t gave forth any toerable or comfort
ing harmony, its distressing and dirge-
full wall rather expressing the unutter-
able despair and bitterness of the
heart. His voice was a bari
tone of good speaking force and tim
bre, and with it he could always save
his churches from precentor's charges.
He had q bronchial "ahen1" unlike any
other ahem on the street that had
significance for us children, and by
which we knew him without seeing
him, and that, too had its uses for us
A man of medium height, grave in as
poet, who understood himself, and was
not easily Mustered and upset. He new
er feared his children, and with the
help of Solomon's rod was always more
than a match for u.s. went clean
5haven and never frightened folk with
a long beard fit for the Mosaic dispen-
sation.
A sympathetic man, of quick emo
tons, generous, self-forgetful, prudent,
-actful but faithful to his sense of
light end duty. If a vagabond came to
he door ragged and hungry, and stiff
with travel, he would never turn him
IF and bid him go to the next house,
out took him in and did for him with
not viands and feather bed for the
hight. At Plainfeld we knew some
lines the family names of these unfor- ,
innate ones, some Of whom had traced
ather from his former parish !
His service as a pastor lay largely in
lis power of sympathy as a man, in his