H.Q. ROBERTSON
Arizona, The Youngest State, 1913 pg 697

Professor H.Q. Robertson enjoys the distinction of having 
been connected longer than any other man with educational 
interests in the state of Arizona.  He is now superintendent 
of the schools of Benson. He was born in 1866 at Woodland 
California and is a son of the late Judge P.C. and Elizabeth 
(Tebbs) Robertson, the former a native of Illinois and a 
lineal descendant of General James Robertson, while the 
latter was a native of Missouri.  They made their way to 
California in 1853, and the father became prominent in public 
affairs, where he was a member of the legislature.  On January 
1, 1881, he located at Globe Arizona, where he established 
himself in the livery business, but later took a farm on the 
Upper Salt River. He was elected chairman of the Board of 
Supervisors of Gila County and in 1886 was elected to the 
Territorial Council.

H.Q. Robertson was educated in the public schools, and 
attended the Normal School at Tempe from which he graduated 
in 1882 with the second class to go out from that institution.  
He has now taught school for the past twenty seven years.  
He began teaching in the country schools in the early days 
and later acted as principal of the Tempe and Globe schools, 
being also City School Superintendent and Deputy County 
Superintendent.  He was a member of the Territorial Board 
of Education four years and later served two years on the 
State Board of Examiners.  In 1908 he went to Mesa where 
he remained until 1914, when he removed to Benson and 
became Superintendent of Schools there.

Professor Robertson married May 23, 1889 to Miss Katie Brown, 
who was born in Mississippi and with her father came to Arizona 
in 1887.  They are the parents of six children: Lillian, wife 
of Wesley R. Hughes of Globe and the mother of two daughters; 
Dorris, well known teacher in the schools of Mesa and Benson 
and recently became the wife of C.M. Pomeroy of Mesa; Orick 
and Allen, students at the Flagstaff Normal and Henry and H.
Q. Jr. who are at home.

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