Robert Eakin [SEP] educated at
to Oregon in 1866 along with his brother James A. Eakin. The family would set down roots in the Eugene, Oregon area of the state. Robert Eakin attended Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, where he graduated in 1873. He then studied law in Eugene, and passed the bar in 1874.
Legal career.
Following his acceptance to the state bar, he entered private practice in Eastern Oregon in Union County. There he practiced from 1875 until 1895 when he became a judge for the state circuit court’s
has been claimed as 10 Aug 1874, however the date of 16 Sep 1866 is evidenced by his official birth record. He was educated to elementary level at Bourke, where his family moved after his father's alleged death when Stuart-Robertson was 4 years old. Despite the rumour that Robert senior had died during the 1870s in Queensland, Robert senior died on 3 July 1899 at George Street Asylum, Parramatta, New South Wales.
Stuart-Robertson undertook a number of unsuccessful retail businesses in Bourke and Cobar. During