Raymond Robins

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Raymond Robins
Margaret Dreier (married 1905)
RelativesElizabeth Robins (sister)

Raymond Robins (17 September 1873 – 26 September 1954) was an American

Bolsheviks
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Biography

He was born on 17 September 1873 in

Staten Island, New York
.

After financial troubles, his father left Robins and his siblings in the care of his mother and left to do mining in Colorado. When his mother went into a

Klondike gold rush in 1897, where he made some money, converted to Christianity, and became pastor for a Congregational church in Nome, Alaska. He moved to Chicago in 1900.[1] He engaged in social work there 1902 to 1905, and was a member of the Chicago Board of Education from 1906 to 1909.[citation needed
]

Layout in the September 10, 1909, issue of St. Louis Post-Dispatch features a photograph of Raymond Robins. At top right is a photo of a float in a Labor Day parade that week. At bottom, journalist Marguerite Martyn has drawn the figures of five women representing housewives, society leaders, prohibitionists, and students. One holds up a sign reading “6,000,000 women wage earners.” Uncle Sam looks on.

In 1905 Robins married Margaret Dreier, an independently wealthy labor activist who was president of the Women's Trade Union League.[2]

In 1909, Robins attended a

St. Louis, Missouri, after which he was interviewed by reporter and writer Marguerite Martyn. He told her that "there are groups and groups of suffrage advocates, but when the women wage-earners become organized, you will see results from the cry of 'Votes for Women.'"[3]

Robins served also as social service expert for the Men and Religion Forward Movement, in 1911–12, and made a world tour in its interests in 1913. He was leader of the National Christian Social Evangelistic campaign in 1915.[citation needed]

He became identified with the

United States Senator from Illinois for that party, and was temporary and permanent chairman of the Progressive National Convention in 1916.[citation needed
]

During

Russian Revolution of 1917, he felt it was popular, and counter-revolutionary efforts were counter productive.[1]

He died on 26 September 1954.

Family

The actress and writer Elizabeth Robins was his sister. In 1905, he married United States labor leader Margaret Dreier Robins.

Disappearance and amnesia

On 3 September 1932, Robins was traveling from the City Club in Manhattan to the White House, where he was supposed to meet with Herbert Hoover to discuss the urgent need for stronger enforcement of the Prohibition, a case Robins had been making over the past nine months on a 286-city tour. But Robins never showed up in the White House. After a two-month search, he was located in a boarding house in Whittier, North Carolina, under the name of Reynolds Rogers. Apparently because of his amnesia, he did not recognize his wife, Margaret, until she had visited three times.[4]

See also

References

  1. ^
    doi:10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1500575
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  2. ^ Discovering Colonel Raymond Robins
  3. ^ Marguerite Martyn, "Agitator for Women's Suffrage and the Float in Labor Day Parade He Liked," St. Louis Post-Dispatch, September 10, 1909, Page 11
  4. ^ The Strange Case of Reynolds Rogers


Further reading

  • Salzman, Neil V. Reform and Revolution: The Life and Times of Raymond Robins (1991).

External links

Party political offices
First
after direct election of Senators
was adopted in 1913
Class 3)
1914
 Party dissolved
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