Morrell’s School on Dresden Avenue, a short walk from the Robinson house through connecting Danforth Street. Bates house on Lincoln Street, now Avenue, in September 1870. The father was a successful lumber merchant and local politician in Alna, and as he acquired wealth, he was offered the directorship of a bank in Gardiner, to which place the family moved when Robinson was eighteen months old. A.”Įdward Robinson (1818-1892), father of Edwin Arlington Robinson.
He hated the family’s habit of calling him “Win,” and as an adult he always signed himself as “E. The ladies placed names in a lottery, and the name drawn was “Edwin.” Because the lady who proposed “Edwin” as a name was from Arlington, Massachusetts, baby Robinson became Edwin Arlington Robinson, a name that was anathema to him throughout his life. The following summer when the family vacationed at a resort in Harpswell, Maine, the ladies on the verandah challenged her to name the baby. Because his mother had expected a daughter, no male name had been selected for a possible son. Mary Elizabeth (Palmer) Robinson (1833-1896), mother of Edwin Arlington Robinson.Įdwin Arlington Robinson was born in the village of Head Tide in the town of Alna, Maine, on December 22, 1869, third son of Edward and Mary Elizabeth (Palmer) Robinson. Edwin Arlington Robinson | A Brief BiographyĬhairman, Special Collections Committee, Gardiner Library Association
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