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Stuart Robinson abt. 1812 - unknown
Jefferson County KyArchives Biography

Author: Kentucky: A History of the State, Perrin, Battle, Kniffin, 8th ed., 1888

REV. STUART ROBINSON, D.D., was a native of the North of Ireland, and was born 
at Strauane, County Tyrone, about 1812. His parents, James and Martha (Porter) 
Robinson, were poor. They emigrated to America while their son was yet small, 
and located at Martinsburg, Virginia. Here the strong will, quick wit, and 
rugged clear headedness of the boy attracted the attention of Rev. James M. 
Brown, a Presbyterian clergyman, who gave him a good private school education, 
and started him to teaching at one of the neighboring salt works. His education 
was completed at Amherst, Mass., where he graduated in 1834. Among his college 
mates were several who afterward achieved distinction, and who like him have 
passed their reward in the hereafter; notable of these were Rev. Benjamin M.
Palmer, D.D., of Louisville, and Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. Having studied
for the Presbyterian ministry (Old school) he preached fro some years at
Malden, near Charleston. In 1846, when his old college mate, Dr. Humphrey,
was compelled by ill health to relinquish his pulpit, the Second
Presbyterian Church in Louisville, it was filled by M. Robinson, and so
acceptably that the same congregation, years after, when there was a
vacancy, unanimously chose him as their pastor. From 1846 to 1854 he was
pastor at Frankfort, Ky., and during that period found time to act as
president of a female seminary, president of a cotton factory, president of
a turnpike road company, and director of the Framer's Bank of Kentucky,
with its seven branches and $2,200,000 capital. In 1854 he was called to
the pastoral care of the Central Presbyterian Church of Baltimore, Md. With
a large and growing congregation he yet found time to originate and edit,
for two years, 1855-56, the Presbyterian Critic, a very able monthly,
strongly controversial in character. In May, 1856, the Presbyterian General
Assembly elected him professor of church government and pastoral theology
in the Theological Seminary, at Danville, Ky., which he filled for two
years with distinguished ability. His next call was to the pulpit of the
Second Presbyterian Church of Louisville, which he held to the time of his
death, October 5, 1881. In 1858 he wrote "The Church of God as an Essential
Element of the Gospel, and the Idea, Structure and Function thereof," a
12-mo. volume of great power and labor, which in a few months called for a
second edition, much enlarged. He afterward wrote several other smaller
works, but his last and greatest work was "Discourses of Redemption." In
1861 he began, at Louisville, the publication of a weekly newspaper, The
True Presbyterian, which was twice suppressed by the military in July,
1862, and in November, 1864, not because of any political utterances, but
because of its pronounced opinions on religious and church topics which
were distasteful to some who sank their views of independent church
government and personal action in the maelstrom of subserviency to the
military spirit of the hour. In 1863 he went to Toronto, Canada, where he
remained until 1866. The publication of his newspaper was resumed in 1865,
by his co-editor, as the Free Christians Commonwealth," which he aided in
editing from a "far country." In May, 1869, at the session of the General
Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (South), at Mobile, Ala., he was
elected moderator, unanimously, a compliment as distinguished as it is
rare. In 1873, in a series of lectures of his congregation, he delivered a
commentary on the book of Genesis, both striking and exhaustive. They were
published weekly in the Courier-Journal. In the summer of 1873 Doctor
Robinson visited Europe, Egypt and Palestine; and in the winter following
lectured upon his travels to crowded houses, always for the benefit of some
worthy object--never for private reward. In 1877 he attended the
Pau-Presbyterian Convention, in Edinburgh, Scotland, and was one of the
most observed of that assembly of great and Christian minds, and one of the
strongest of the American representatives to that body. The secret of Dr.
Robinson's power was his directness, simplicity, scripturalness and intense
conviction of truth. Of course these traits were united with genius,
learning and great industry. He married, in September, 1841, Miss Mary E.
Brigham, a daughter of Col. Wm. Brigham, a native of Massachusetts, who
survived him. Eight children were born of his marriage, only two of whom,
daughters, are living. 


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