Edward Murphy Robinson
ROBINSON, EDWARD MURPHY, lawyer, was born March 11, 1873, at Stockton; son of George W. and Martha A. (McMillan) Robinson, the former who was a native of New York City, came to Alabama with his parents, resided at Stockton, where he was elected a member of the legislature from Baldwin County, in 1865, served as first lieutenant in the C. S. Army, in Co. I, Wirt Adams Independent cavalry, and was wounded near Vicksburg, in 1864, removed to Mobile in 1887, where he died; grandson of Edward and Sarah Robinson, natives of England, who came to America in 1833, and later located in Stockton, and of Murphy and Celta A. McMillan, of Stockton. He received a good early education, having attended both public and private schools, and at the age of fourteen years, entered the University of Alabama. He was captain and adjutant of the cadet corps, received the degree of B. A., in 1890, and at the commencement in 1891, received his LL. B. degree. He studied law at the University of Virginia, 1892-93, and in the fall of 1893, went to Mobile, where he began the practice of his profession. He was elected to the general assembly of the Alabama legislature in 1894, and served until 1899; was recorder of Mobile. 1897-98; was captain of Co. C, Second Alabama Volunteers, Spanish-American War, 1898; was made major of the First regiment infantry, Alabama National Guard, in command of the Mobile battalion, in June, 1899. He was made a trustee of the Troy normal school, and of the Alabama hospital for the insane, and during the years 1901-02, he was president of the society of the alumni of the University of Alabama. He is a Democrat; a Presbyterian; and a Knight of Pythias. Residence: Mobile.
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