Background
William Schenck Robertson was born on January 11, 1820, in Huntington, New York. He was the son of the Rev. Samuel and Dorcas (Platt) Robertson.
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Pu Pucase Momet Pu Hesayecv Cesvs Klist En Testement Mucvsat: Klekvlke Em Punvkv Mv Ofv Enhvteceskv Cohoyvte Aossen Tohtvlecihocet OS
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William Schenck Robertson
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Education
He was graduated from Union College, Schenectady, New York in 1842 and began the study of medicine but, after completing about two-thirds of the course, gave it up to become a teacher.
Career
He taught for a few years in various academies in the state of New York and after uniting with the Presbyterian Church at Northport, Long Island, offered his services to the Presbyterian board for foreign missions. Requesting to be assigned to work among the Indians, he was given the position of principal teacher at the new manual labor boarding school among the Creeks later known as Tullahassee Mission in Indian Territory. He reached Tullahassee in the summer of 1849 to find the building still unfinished. On Jan. 1, 1850, however, he opened a day school, and two months later thirty boarding students were received. This number was increased to the full quota of eighty, when school opened in the autumn. On Apr. 15, 1850, he was married to Ann Eliza Worcester, the eldest child of the Rev. Samuel A. Worcester who had for some years been in charge of the Cherokee mission at Park Hill. One of their daughters was Alice Mary Robertson. For more than ten years Robertson continued, without interruption, his work at Tullahassee. With the able help of his wife he published in the Creek language a first and a second reader, which were widely distributed. When the Civil War broke out the school was closed by the southern wing of the Creeks, who had obtained control of the tribal government. With his family he went north and spent the winter of 1861-62 at his father's home at Winneconne, Wis. For the next two years he taught in Illinois, the first year at Mattoon and the second at Centralia. In 1864 the Presbyterian mission board placed him in charge of the orphan institute at Highland, Kan. , where he remained for two years. He was ordained a minister by the presbytery of Highland early in November 1866 and was then sent by the mission board to reopen Tullahassee, since the Creeks had earnestly requested that he be returned to them. To stimulate interest in education he obtained a small printing press and with the aid of his son and daughter published and distributed for four years a small newspaper in the Creek language called Our Monthly. In 1876 he was for a month in charge of the Indian educational exhibit at the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition. He was also for years interested in the work of the Indian international fair held annually at Muskogee. During the later years of his life he began the translation of the New Testament into the Creek language, based on the earlier work of Robert M. Loughbridge and issued in parts between 1875 and 1886. After his death the complete edition, Pu Pucase Momet Pu Hesayecv Cesus Klist in Testement Mucvsat, was finished by his wife and published in 1887.
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Pu Pucase Momet Pu Hesayecv Cesvs Klist En Testement Mucvsat: Klekvlke Em Punvkv Mv Ofv Enhvteceskv Cohoyvte Aossen Tohtvlecihocet OS
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Pu Pucase Momet Pu Hesayecv Cesvs Klist En Testement Mucvsat: Klekvlke Em Punvkv Mv Ofv Enhvteceskv Cohoyvte Aossen Tohtvlecihocet OS
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April 15, 1850, he was married to Ann Eliza Worcester, the eldest child of the Rev. Samuel A. Worcester who had for some years been in charge of the Cherokee mission at Park Hill. One of their daughters was Alice Mary Robertson
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Religion
Presbyterian