Marmaduke Swaim Robins (August 31, 1827 - June 27, 1905) was a teacher, lawyer, politician and newspaperman in North Carolina.
He served as private secretary to North Carolina governor Zebulon Vance[1] and as a state legislator.
[3] When the American Civil War started he stopped teaching and worked as a private secretary for governor Zebulon Baird Vance.
[3] After the war he started up a law practice that became large and successful and where he continued to run and work until the illness that eventually killed him stopped him.
His law office remains extant and was used by his son Henry Moring Robins who was also a lawyer and served as Asheboro's mayor from 1907 to 1909.