Background
Robie, Frederick was born on August 12, 1822 in Gorham, Maine, United States. Son of Honorary Toppan and Sarah T. (Lincoln) Robie.
Robie, Frederick was born on August 12, 1822 in Gorham, Maine, United States. Son of Honorary Toppan and Sarah T. (Lincoln) Robie.
Descendant of Henry Robie, of Exeter, New Hampshire (U.S.), 1639, and of Samuel Lincoln, of Hingham, Massachusetts, ancestor of Abraham Lincoln. Bachelor of Arts, Bowdoin, 1841. Doctor of Medicine Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, 1844.
After graduation he taught at academies in the Southern states. He then took a medical course at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, and received his medical degree in 1844. He had a successful medical career and established medical practices in Biddeford, Maine, and then in Waldoboro, Maine.
He later practiced medicine in his hometown of Gorham.
During the American, Robie accepted an appointment from President Abraham Lincoln as Paymaster of United States Volunteers. He served with the Army of the Potomac from 1861 to 1863.
Robie then was transferred to Boston as Chief Paymaster of the Department of New England. He later served in Maine administering the final payments of discharged soldiers.
Robie was elected to the Maine House of Representatives in 1859.
Re-elected in 1860, he left office to serve in the Union Army. At the end of the war, Robie was elected to the Maine Senate in 1866 and 1867. He was Speaker of the Maine House of Representatives in 1872 and 1876.
In 1882 he was the Republican nominee for Governor and was elected by a popular vote.
He was re-elected in 1884 by nearly 20,000 votes. He left office on January 5, 1887.
After leaving office, Robie continued his medical practice. He also served on the boards of directors of the First National Bank of Portland and the Portland and Rochester Railroad Company.
He died on February 3, 1912.
Member Maine House of Representatives, 8 terms, during the period 1859-1889 (speaker 1872, 1876), Senate, 1866-1867. Member Government"s Executive Council, under governments Washburn, Davis and Plaisted, 1860, 1880, 81, 82.
Married Olivia M. Priest, November 27, 1847. Married second, Martha East. Cressey, January 12, 1900.