William Stevens Robinson

He was educated in the public schools of Concord, learned the printer's trade, and joined his brother working on the Norfolk Advertiser in Dedham in 1837.

Robinson next edited the Lowell American, a Free-soil Democratic paper, until it died for lack of support in 1853.

In 1856 he began to write letters for The Republican over the signature Warrington, in which questions of the day and public men were discussed with such boldness and wit that the correspondence attracted wide popular attention.

His widow, Harriet Hanson Robinson, published personal reminiscences from his writings entitled Warrington Pen-Portraits, with a memoir (Boston, 1877).

Their daughter, Hattie, served as assistant clerk of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1872, being the first woman to hold such a position.