Clatsop-Multnomah-Statewide County OR Archives Biographies.....Robison, Charles William May 10, 1889 - 
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Source: History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. III, Published 1928, Pages 584 - 587
Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company

     CHARLES WILLIAM ROBISON.  One of Astoria's most highly esteemed 
professional men is Charles W. Robison, who has been actively engaged in the 
practice of law here for a number of years and commands a large and 
representative clientele. He was born at Baker City, Oregon, on the 10th of 
May, 1889, and is the only child of William and Bessie (Lindenbaum) Robison, 
the former born in Moscow, Russia, and the latter near Berlin, Germany. His 
father received a good education, but the death of his parents prevented him 
from completing the rabbinical course. In 1870 he came to the United States, 
landing at New York, and soon afterward went to Mexico City, where he 
conducted a mercantile business. He was an accomplished linguist, which aided 
him greatly in his business relations, and he remained in that city twelve 
years, when he went to San Francisco, California, where he met Miss Lindenbaum 
and was married. Soon afterward he located in Portland, Oregon, where he 
established a large clothing store, which he ran until the big flood of 1894, 
when he sold out and went to Los Angeles, California. He was in business there 
for a few years, after which he went to Goldendale, Washington, where for 
several years he conducted a mercantile business. Then, selling out there, he 
moved to Oregon City, where he was similarly engaged for ten years, at the end 
of which time he returned to Portland, where he again opened a store, which he 
successfully conducted until his death, in 1911. He is survived by his widow, 
who still resides in that city.

     Charles W. Robison attended the public schools of Oregon City and 
graduated from Portland Academy. He entered Williams College, at Williamstown, 
Massachusetts, which he attended for one semester, when he was compelled to 
return home because of his father's illness. He then entered the University of 
Oregon, from which he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and 
next entered the law school of that institution, from which he received the 
degree of Bachelor of Law in 1913. He was appointed deputy district attorney 
at Portland, which position he filled for three and a half years, after which 
he entered the state insurance commissioner's office at Salem as legal adviser 
to the state fire marshal. When the United States became involved in the World 
war, Mr. Robison was appointed special agent for the department of justice at 
Portland, in which position he served until the close of the war, when he came 
to Astoria and entered upon the private practice of his profession, in which 
he has been engaged to the present time. He has devoted himself closely to his 
life work, in which he has met with success, and is regarded as one of the 
ablest and most capable members of the Clatsop county bar.

     On July 12, 1914, Mr. Robison was united in marriage to Miss Birdie Wise, 
who was born and reared in Astoria and is a daughter of Herman and Sarah Wise, 
both of whom are deceased. She is a member of one of Astoria's old pioneer 
families and her father served as postmaster and mayor of Astoria. Mrs. 
Robison graduated from the University of Oregon with the degree of Bachelor of 
Arts in 1912, and is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa sorority. She was regarded 
as one of the best students at the University of Oregon, being a fine debater 
and particularly proficient in mathematics. Both Mr. and Mrs. Robison were 
prominent in college activities, he being yell leader and editor of various 
campus publications, as well as prominent in debate and oratory. Mrs. Robison 
entered college one year later than he and was secretary of the student body, 
editor of several college publications and active in debate and oratory. After 
her graduation she taught mathematics for two years in the schools of Astoria. 
Mr. and Mrs. Robison are the parents of four children, namely: William 
Charles, born September 18, 1915, and now in junior high school; Frances May, 
born August 26, 1917; Beryl, born May 23, 1921, and Herman, born September 7, 
1927.

     Mr. Robison has shown a helpful interest in public affairs and some idea 
of the esteem in which he is held by his fellowmen may be gained from the fact 
that at the recent primary election he received the nomination from both the 
republican and democratic parties for representative to the state legislature 
from the nineteenth district, a very unusual, but well deserved compliment. 
Mr. Robison is a member of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and the 
Woodmen of the World. He is a man of alert mentality, a keen and resourceful 
trial lawyer, a sound and safe office counselor, a public-spirited citizen and 
a constant and dependable neighbor and friend.

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