Georgia T. Robertson

At fifteen Georgia T. Robertson became a teacher in the Ledge district of Twinsburg, Ohio, and two years later passed to wider fields of action, teaching in the graded schools and attending Hiram College.

She was actively connected with the Ohio Woman's Press Association and various historical, literary, art and social organizations in her city.

In 1875 Georgia Trowbridge married George A. Robertson (d. 1908), an alumnus of Hiram College and a well-known journalist of Cleveland, Ohio.

[1] Her son, Carl Trowbridge Robertson (1876-1935), a graduated from Harvard in 1898, was a journalist and founder of the Cleveland Morning Recorder.

In 1920 he discovered an unknown section of Mammoth Cave National Park, subsequently named Robertson Ave. His son, Donald "Don" Robertson, was a reporter for the Plain Dealer, a columnist for the Cleveland Press, and a novelist best known for "The Greatest Thing since Sliced Bread", a fictional account of the East Ohio Gas disaster.