William Callyhan Robinson

William Callyhan Robinson (b. 26 July1834, at Norwich, Connecticut; d. 6 November1911, at Washington, D.C.) was an American jurist and academic.

Life

After studies at Norwich Academy, Williston Seminary, and Wesleyan University, he entered Dartmouth College from which he graduated in 1854. He then entered the Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and graduated in 1857. Ordained to the Episcopalian ministry, he served first at Pittston, Pennsylvania (1857-8), and then at Scranton, Pennsylvania (1859-62). After a religious conversion, he was received into the Catholic Church in 1863.

He was admitted to the Bar in 1864, and was lecturer and professor in law at Yale University (1869-95). For two years (1869-71) he was judge of the City Court and later (1874-6) judge of the Court of Common Pleas at New Haven, Conn. In 1874 also he served as member of the Legislature.

From Dartmouth College he received (1879) the degree LL.D., and from Yale University the degree M.A. (1881). In 1895 he was appointed professor in the Catholic University of America, where he organized the School of Social Sciences and remained as Dean of the School of Law until his death.

Works

Besides articles contributed to various periodicals, he wrote:

*"Life of E. B. Kelly" (1855);
*"Notes of Elementary Law" (1876);
*"Elementary Law" (Boston, 1876);
*"Clavis Rerum" (1883);
*"Law of Patents" (3 vols., Boston, 1890);
*"Forensic Oratory" (Boston, 1893);
*"Elements of American Jurisprudence" (Boston, 1900).

Family

He married 2 July, 1857, Anna Elizabeth Haviland and, 31 March, 1891, Ultima Marie Smith.

References

*"Catholic University Bulletin" (Dec., 1911);
*"Catholic Educational Review" (Dec., 1911).