George Robinson and his Family

[Linda Anderson]

Fascinating article, Blaine! I didn't know that Robinson had such a hard time financially after Powell's attack.

His nemesis, Margaret Coleman, stayed with the Sewards until they went back to New York in 1869 then she worked as the housekeeper for Charles Sumner. After he died in 1874, Sumner's friends got her a job in the Treasury Department where she remained until 1901 when she could no longer work there due to ill health (she was in her eighties by then). She was replaced by her niece, another Margaret Coleman.

The University of Rochester has Robinson's bronze medal. I saw it when I was there last summer.

"A bronze medal in the collection bears the inscription "'Awarded to George E. Robinson by Act of Congress, March 1, 1871, for his heroic conduct on the 14th day of April, 1865, in saving the life of the Honorable William H. Seward, then Secretary of State.'"

http://www.lib.rochester.edu/index.cfm?PAGE=3363