ROBERTSON, William Schenck, edu cator and mission superintendent: b. Hunting ton, L. I., 11 Jan. 1820; d. 26 June 1881. He was fitted for college at several different acade mies and graduated from Union College, Schenectady, in 1843. He started to study medicine hut, after partially completing his course, decided to devote himself to teaching as a profession. In 1849 he offered himself as a mission teacher to the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions and was accepted for service in their work among the Creek, or Muskogee Indians, and was sent out as the principal of Tullahassee Manual Labor Boarding School. The following year (16 April 1850) he married Miss Ann Eliza Worcester, daughter of Rev. Dr. Samuel A. Worcester, superintendent of the Park Hill Mission, in the Cherokee Nation. The work of the Tullahassee Mission was in terrupted by the outbreak of the Civil War, in the spring of 1861, Mr. Robertson and his family having to leave the Indian Territory as refugees. During the ensuing five years they were located at Highland, Kan., where he en gaged in teaching in a mission school which was operated for the benefit of the children of the Iowa and Kickapoo Indian tiibes. Just before
his return to the Inclian Territory, in 1866, he was 'ordained to the ministry of the Presby terian Church, The Tullahassee Mission was rehabilitated and the work of educating Creek children was resumed, his duties as a teacher occupying his time to such an extent that the work of translating was left to others. He published a paper in the Creek language called Our Monthly for some years. In 1876 he was in charge of the Indian educational exhibit at the Centennial Exposition for a time. A man of brilliant attainments, he lived only in his work and the impress of his life and labort remains among the people to whose betterment his self-sacrificing service was given. The prop erty of the Tullahassee Mission was destroyed by fire, 19 Dec. 1880. The work incidental to the plans for rebuilding the mission and the disappointments and discouragements that were encountered are believed to have hastened his death.