Bio: William C. Robinson,  Bienville Parish Louisiana
Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville,  1890
Submitted by: Kay Thompson Brown


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WILLIAM C. ROBINSON, M.A.

William C. Robinson, M. A., is at present a member f the faculty of Mount
Lebanon University Mount Lebanon, La., and holds the chair of ancient
languages and mathematics.  He was born in the Old Dominion, April 25, 1861,
and was second of a family of seven children born to Robert H and Virginia A.
(Vaughan) Robinson, both natives of Virginia.  The father is still living, and
is engaged in farming. The mother received her final summons at the age of
forty years. Their children are named in the order of the births as follows:
Mary (married, and resides in Sussex County, Va.), William C., John R.
(resides in Virginia, Annie T. (resides at home), George N. (aged fourteen),
Nettie and Alice May (deceased).  

Prof. Robinson was educated by private tutors and in the public schools until
he was sixteen years of age, after which he taught school until nineteen years
of age. In 1881 he entered Richmond College. received a finished education,
and graduated in 1887.  The course of study was a severe and rigid one, and
his rank was high in his scholastic work.  As before stated, Prof. Robinson
started out for himself as a teacher when sixteen years of age, and with no
financial aid to assist in his career. 

He was married December 24,1888, to Miss Etta A. Moore, a native of Virginia,
born April 18, 1879, a graduate of Hollin's Female Institute, Va.  Prof.
Robinson and wife are members of the Missionary Baptist Church, in Virginia.
The Professor is a ripe scholar, and a gentleman of great erudition. He
expects to devote his entire life to teaching, and his version of a true
teacher is a pure and exalted one.  He has received such a through education,
that he can be called upon to take any department of school work, with credit
to himself and his college. He has been connected with Mount Lebanon
University since September, 1890, and thinks he may possibly remain in
Louisiana as a teacher.