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Henry Cornelius Robinson was the son of David Franklin and Anne (Seymour) Robinson of Hartford and a descendant of Thomas Robinson who settled at Guilford, Connecticut, in 1664.
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Henry Cornelius Robinson was the son of David Franklin and Anne (Seymour) Robinson of Hartford and a descendant of Thomas Robinson who settled at Guilford, Connecticut, in 1664.
After preparation at the Hartford Grammar School and at the Hartford Public High School, he was sent in 1849 to Yale where he achieved both social and scholastic success.
After graduation in 1853 he studied law with his brother Lucius F. Robinson and with Judge William Lucius Storrs.
On August 17, 1855, Robinson was admitted to the bar at Hartford.
In 1858 he became his brother's partner, and from 1861 to 1888, when he was joined by his eldest son, he continued the firm alone.
After his marriage in 1862 his legal practice became outstanding, for he not only secured a large private clientele, but as a corporation counsel he came to represent the largest interests in the state.
Since his college days he had been interested in the fisheries problem, an important one on the Connecticut River, and with this opportunity to put his theories into practice he demonstrated that it was possible to hatch shad artificially. Unfortunately his proposals for conservation were soon brought to an end by a change in administration. In 1872 Robinson was elected mayor of Hartford. His two-year term showed him to be an able and popular administrator, and in 1876 he was nominated by acclamation as candidate for governor, but he was defeated. In 1879 he was elected a member of the lower house of the legislature. As chairman of the judiciary committee he championed measures of judicial reform and in a strenuous campaign carried them through.
In 1880 he was a member of the Republican National Convention at Chicago and drafted a considerable portion of the platform.
In 1888 he was active in securing Harrison's election and was offered the appointment as minister to Spain. He declined the honor, for he was at that time at the height of his professional career.
He was counsel for many large enterprises, among them the Connecticut Fire Insurance Company and the firm of Pratt & Whitney.
He was also a director of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, and as its counsel successfully opposed in 1889 the building of a parallel line between New Haven and New York by the Housatonic and "Air-Line" interests. Shortly afterward he was offered its presidency, but again felt that he could not leave his extensive legal practice.
In the years 1891-93 he headed the counsel for the Republican party in the dispute which grew out of the contest for the governorship.
Throughout his life he was in demand as an orator on public occasions.
Two of his addresses were published.
Other writings, on legal and religious subjects, appeared in the Yale Law Journal and the New Englander and Yale Review.
Robinson suffered injuries in a fall which cut short a life of ceaseless activity, and for some time before his death he was confined to his home.
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In addition to his work as lawyer and legislator Robinson was one of the leading laymen of the Congregational denomination. For fifty years he was a member of the South Church in Hartford, and active in the social and religious enterprises of the community.
He was an ardent supporter of the Republican party from its foundation and in 1866 was appointed by Governor Hawley as fish commissioner.
He was a liberal rather than a reformer, for he tempered his natural desire for progress with his conservative point of view.
At the height of the Andover religious disputes he set forward a legal argument for a liberal interpretation of creeds.
Quotes from others about the person
"In times of theological controversy he warmly espoused, but in a truly conservative spirit, the side of liberty and progress" (Yale Class of 1853 Report, 1903).
On August 28, 1862, Robinson married Eliza Niles Trumbull, daughter of John F. Trumbull of Stonington, thus joining the heritage of two of Connecticut's oldest families. They had three sons and two daughters.