ROBERTSON, SAMUEL LOWRIE 1838-1909

Biography:

Lawyer, school superintendent. Born– November 18, 1838, Jackson County. Education– University of Virginia; Richmond Hill Law School in North Carolina. Practiced law in Charlotte; superintendent of the county schools in Jefferson County, Ala. Served in the Civil War Cavalry under Generals Wheeler and Forrest. Best known poem, “A School Room Fifty Years Ago,” portrayed a typical antebellum school day.

Source:

Biographical Dictionary of Southern Authors.

Publication(s):

Dora; or, On the Border, and Other Poems. Birmingham, Ala.; Roberts & Son, 1894.

Gulf Songs. Birmingham, Ala.; Roberts & Son, 1908.