[Illustration: Geo. D. Robinson Governor of Mass. 1884.

B.H. RUSSELL BOSTON]




THE BAY STATE MONTHLY.

_A Massachusetts Magazine_.

VOL. II.

JANUARY, 1885.

No. 4.

* * * * *

GEORGE DEXTER ROBINSON.

BY FRED. W. WEBBER, A.M.

[Assistant Editor of the Boston Journal.]


His Excellency George D. Robinson, at present the foremost citizen of
Massachusetts, by reason of his incumbency of the highest office in the
Commonwealth, is the thirtieth in the line of succession of the men who
have held the office of Governor under the Constitution. In character,