Clark County KyGenWeb

"Education-The Williamstown Graded School"
Reprint from The Grant County News, Footsteps of the Past
Thursday, October 22, 1998
submittted by Nancy Bray

Professor I. G. Robinson, principal of the school, was born in Clark County, Kentucky, May 28, 1856. He was the eldest of three sons of Butler Robinson and Emma Jackson Robinson. Their ancestors were natives of Virginia and were of Scotch-Irish decent. There was no royal road to education for Professor Robinson.

After obtaining a good common school education, he commenced teaching, and taught five months in each year and attended college five months, until he had spent parts of four years at the Kentucky University and parts of two years at the Kentucky Classical and Business college at North Middletown Kentucky, where he finished the natrual sciences, mathematics, English, Latin, Greek, to the senior year, also, a normal course under a graduate of the National University of Lebanon, Ohio. Since 1878 he has been continually engaged in teaching.

He was first assistant of the Winchester Graded Public school, when he was placed in the principal's chair and held the position for six years, which in itself is a great recommendation. For a number of years he was a member of the board of county examiners, and for two terms he held the position of County Superintendent of schools of Clark County.

He has the strongest of recommendations from the citizens of Winchester as to his proficiency as a teacher, his abilities as a disciplinarian, and his high standing as a gentleman morally and socially.

October 23, 1884 he was united in marriage to Miss Mollie Haggart, of Clark County. Mr. Robinson has charge of the high school department besides exercising a general supervision of the other departments. He is quiet, unassuming and even-tempered and maintains the most perfect discipline in the schoolroom. As long as the Williamstown Graded Free School is presided over by a man with as much ability as a teacher as Professor Robinson its success is assured.