BIO: Robert Earl; New York State
surname: Earl

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An Illustrated Legislative Manual
The New York Red Book
Containing the Portraits and Biographies of the U.S. Senators, Governor, State
Officers and Members of the Legislature; also with the Portraits of Judges and
Court Reporters, the New Constitution of the State, Election and Population
Statistics, and General Facts of Interest.
By Edgar L. Murlin
New Constitution Compiled by R. C. Cumming, O. L. Potter and F. B. Gilbert
Published, Albany, J. B. Lyon Company, Publishers, 1909

Copyright by J. B. Lyon Company, 1909

     Robert Earl of Herkimer, the representative of the Democratic party in
the Highway Commission, was born in 1868, a nephew of Robert Earl, former
Judge of the Court of Appeals. Mr. Earl was educated at St. John's Military
School at Manlius and at Union College. He is a member of the Sigma Phi
Fraternity and of the Free and Accepted Masons. He entered the Herkimer
National Bank's employment when a young man and later became a manager of an
estate. He was a delegate to the Democratic State Convention in 1900 when John
B. Stanchfield was nominated for Governor. With about 140 others Mr. Earl
voted for Bird S. Coler, who was defeated for the nomination then and was
nominated for Governor two years later. He voted for Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler,
the Democratic candidate for Governor in 1908.