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Robert, Henry Martyn

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Robert, Henry Martyn (1837-1923)

US military engineer who served with the Corps of Engineers, constructing many river and harbour improvements as well as fortifications. His name remains in current usage, however, for other than his engineering feats. Asked to preside at a meeting about 1862, he could not find a guide to the proper procedures, so he drew up his own; it was published as Robert's Rules of Order 1915 and remains the standard authority for virtually all official meetings in the USA.

He was born in Robertville, South Carolina. A graduate of West Point in 1857, he participated in operations against Indians in the Northwest in 1858. During the US Civil War he served with the Union army and constructed defences for Washington, DC. After the 1900 tidal wave in Galveston, Texas, he helped build its sea wall.



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