BIO: Thomas Hastings ROBINSON, Dauphin County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, 
Containing Sketches of Representative Citizens, and Many of the 
Early Scotch-Irish and German Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: 
J. M. Runk & Company, 1896, page 267.
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  ROBINSON, THOMAS HASTINGS, son of William Andrew Robinson and his 
wife Nancy Cochran, was born January 30, 1828, in North-East township, 
Erie county, Pa.  He entered Oberlin College, Lorain county, Ohio, in 
1846, having prepared in the preparatory department of the same 
institution, and graduated in 1850, pursuing the full course.  During 
his college vacations he taught in public and select schools, and, for 
a year or more after his graduation, he was principal of the academy at 
Ashtabula, Ohio, and, for six months, principal of the Normal School at 
Farmington, in that State. He entered the Western Theological Seminary, 
Allegheny, Pa., in 1851, graduating in April, 1854.  He was licensed to 
preach by the Presbytery of Ohio, June 13, 1854, and, in July 
following, was called to the colleague pastorate of what is now known 
as the Market Square Presbyterian church, at Harrisburg, Pa., as an 
associate with the Rev. William R. DeWitt, D.D.  He began his 
ministration in October, 1854, and was ordained and installed on the 
21st of January, 1855, by the Presbytery of Harrisburg.  After the 
withdrawal of the Rev. Dr. DeWitt, in 1864, and his decease, in 1867, 
he continued in sole charge of the church until his resignation, in 
1884.  He was moderator of the Synod of Pennsylvania (N. S.), in 1861; 
stated clerk of the Synod of Harrisburg, 1870-82, and stated clerk of 
the Synod of Pennsylvania, 1882-1883, when he resigned, and also his 
thirty years' pastorate of the Market Square church, Harrisburg, to 
accept the professorship of sacred rhetoric, church government, and 
pastoral theology, in the Western Theological Seminary, at Allegheny, 
into which office he was inducted April 16, 1884. He was a director of 
the seminary from 1874 to 1884, and was a trustee of Princeton College 
from 1875 to 1885.  Resides in Allegheny City.  Rev. Dr. Robinson 
married, in 1856, Mary Wolf Buehler, daughter of Henry Buehler and Anna 
Margaretta, only daughter of Governor Wolf, of Pennsylvania.